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The transfer declaration for marks protected under statute or treaty is a template declaration which needs to be uploaded in the Clearinghouse User Interface when the Trademark Holder of a mark protected under statute or treaty has indicated that he/she is the assignee of the mark protected under statute or treaty. This transfer declaration for mark protected under statute or treaty needs to be downloaded, completed and signed by both assignor (former owner of the mark and assignee (current owner of the mark). The assignee is the party that is mentioned on the trademark record submitted to the Clearinghouse.

These Trademark Clearinghouse Guidelines (these “Clearinghouse Guidelines”) will serve as a guideline for Trademark Holders and Trademark Agents to inform them about the eligibility requirements for inclusion of trademarks in the Trademark Clearinghouse and participation in the different TMCH services. 

The TMCH project provides an automated interface to allow users to interact in an automated fashion with the data stored in the Clearinghouse database (TMCH database). XML has been widely used by registries and registrars to provide an automated interfaces (the API) for their data exchange. This API provides similar functionality and will be provided using TLS to be as close to the current EPP standard as possible. The API may only be used by Trademark Agents that have contracted with the Clearinghouse.

This zip archive contains samples of commands and responses based on the XSD that should help building implementations to use the API provided to get direct access to the various objects in the TMCH database in an automated fashion.

In the Documentation folder you can find text (.txt) document containing a list of all Poll messages and Error codes and their ID numbers, a list of all Jurisdictions, a list of all & and @ transliterations and the API manual with command and response samples.

The complete XSD scheme and Mark schemes can be found in the XSD folder. It the XSD scheme extends the Signed Mark Data (SMD) XSD description draft-lozano-smd-01.txt that was provided by ICANN, which is also contained in the folder. The structure of the mark block is intentionally included and not modified to prevent misunderstanding, make the mapping easy and prevent misinterpretation of the various fields.

Update: API certificate has been upgraded to a trusted CA certificate

This document contains the Clearinghouse Validation Terms and Conditions for Trademark Agents

24 February 2022:
Updates were made on the following topics:
• Preamble: Adding Ancillary services.
• Definitions: Adding Ancillary services & changes to the Deloitte entity.
• Submitting a Trademark Record: Further clarification of price changes when applicable.
• Representation and Warranties of CHIP: Updates to the warranties.
• Data Privacy & Personal Data: Additional details added relating to GDPR.

This presentation was given during the educational webinar before launching the Clearinghouse on March 26.

This document provides an overview of all country codes, jurisdictions and transliterations.

The license declaration for registered trademarks is a template declaration which needs to be uploaded in the Clearinghouse User Interface when the Trademark Holder of a registered trademark has indicated that he/she is the licensee of a trademark and the license of the trademark has not been recorded with the relevant trademark office. This license declaration for registered trademarks needs to be downloaded, completed and signed by both licensor (the current owner)   and licensee the holder of the mark). The licensee is the party that is mentioned on the trademark record submitted to the Clearinghouse.

The license declaration for court validated trademarks is a template declaration which needs to be uploaded in the Clearinghouse User Interface when the Trademark Holder of a court validated mark has indicated that he/she is the licensee of a court validated mark. This license declaration for court validated trademarks needs to be downloaded, completed and signed by both licensor (the current owner) and licensee (the holder of the mark). The licensee is the party that is mentioned on the trademark record submitted to the Clearinghouse.

This manual details the necessary steps to add and update your Proof of Use.