How fresh the data is

The refresh cycle

Demarka collects new register data daily and refreshes the search index daily. Each collection run picks up what changed since the last one, so nothing is skipped between runs.

In practice, a filing reaches Demarka shortly after it reaches the source register.

”Data as of”

Every assessment states, next to the mark details, “Trademark register — data as of <date>”, with a per-office table beneath it.

Two properties of that date matter:

• It is per country and per register — offices update at different speeds, and the report shows each one honestly rather than averaging them.
• It is frozen at the moment the assessment was created and never moves. A report you open a year later still tells you how current it was when it was written, rather than implying a freshness it never had.

For an EU-wide assessment, the date is aggregated across member states and is only produced when most of them are available, so it cannot understate coverage.

Saved searches carry the same information in a Data coverage card.

The lag you cannot remove

The bigger constraint is not Demarka’s cycle but the registers themselves. Two lags exist everywhere:

1. Office publication lag. A newly filed application takes time to appear in the office’s own published data — weeks in some jurisdictions.
2. Priority filings. An applicant can claim priority from an earlier foreign filing made up to six months previously. Such a mark can surface after your search yet still rank ahead of you.

No search product anywhere can see either. It is inherent to how trademark registers work.

What follows for clearance

• A clean search is a strong signal, not a guarantee. The most recent filings are the ones least likely to be visible.
• Do not treat a search from six months ago as current. Re-run it before you file.
• Put monitoring on anything you file. It is the mechanism that catches what was invisible at filing time — including priority filings that only surface later.

Registers that hold only registrations

Some offices publish only granted registrations, not pending applications. In those countries a competitor’s recent application is not visible to anyone until it registers.

The coverage page marks each register as pending + registered, registered only or pending only. When you assess a country whose register is registered-only, treat the relative-grounds picture as necessarily incomplete for recent filings — and rely on monitoring for the rest.