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The USPTO registered The AI Lab's seal, the crowned emblem with two lions that marks The Global Seal of Trust, on the Principal Register on November 10, 2026. It is the company's fourth registered trademark.
Dinesh Mendhe, Founder and Chairman, The AI LabNovember 10, 2026
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has registered The AI Lab's seal as a service mark of The AI Lab Intelligence Unobscured, Inc., under U.S. Registration No. 8538735. The registration issued on November 10, 2026, on the Principal Register, the USPTO's main register for marks that identify a single source.
The seal is the crowned emblem with two lions that marks The Global Seal of Trust™, The AI Lab's certification for AI systems. It is the company's fourth registered trademark. Anyone can check it on the USPTO's public trademark status record.
What the record shows #
The USPTO record lists the mark, its owner and the services it covers. The application was published for opposition on September 22, 2026, and nobody opposed it.
- Mark
- A design of a seal containing the wording “THE AI LAB” within a circle, with a crown on top and two lions standing up, one on either side of the wording, above a banner containing the wording “THE GLOBAL SEAL OF TRUST”
- Color
- Not claimed as a feature of the mark, so the registration covers the seal in any color
- Owner
- The AI Lab Intelligence Unobscured, Inc., a Delaware corporation
- Register
- Principal Register, service mark
- Registration
- U.S. Reg. No. 8538735, registered November 10, 2026
- Application
- Serial No. 99604937, filed January 20, 2026
- First use
- January 13, 2026, anywhere and in commerce
- Published
- September 22, 2026, Trademark Official Gazette, with no opposition filed
- Services
- Class 042. Testing, analysis and evaluation of the AI systems of others to determine conformity with established accreditation standards; technical auditing of AI models, agents and datasets for compliance with regulatory, safety and ethical governance standards; a website for issuing, managing and validating digital trust certificates, namely the AI Lab Sentinel, Guardian and Sovereign seals; authentication and verification of AI governance logs, model weights and data provenance
- Disclaimer
- “THE AI LAB” and “THE GLOBAL SEAL OF TRUST”
- Status
- Live, registration issued and active
Why the words are disclaimed #
This registration protects the seal as drawn, the crown, the two lions, the circle and the banner together. The words on it are disclaimed apart from the mark as shown, a routine step that federal law provides for.
The name The Global Seal of Trust is the subject of a separate application, serial 99591935, approved for the Supplemental Register and awaiting its certificate. Until it issues, the name keeps the ™ symbol, and the ® symbol goes with the seal artwork.
What registration gives the owner #
A Principal Register registration is evidence of the owner's exclusive right to use the mark for the registered services, and it serves as nationwide notice of the ownership claim. It also lets the owner use the ® symbol, which federal law reserves for registered marks. The USPTO lists the same benefits on its why register page.
The registration does not certify any AI system. It settles who owns the seal.
What the seal stands for #
The Global Seal of Trust certifies AI systems, such as models, agents and datasets, in three tiers named Sentinel, Guardian and Sovereign. The services in the registration match that work, from conformity testing and technical audits of AI systems to the website that issues and validates the three certificates.
A certified AI system is a different thing from a Verifiable Asset. A Verifiable Asset is a piece of content that carries a CTID (Content TIP ID), a signed public record of who made it and whether it changed.
Four registrations #
The seal joins three registered marks in the portfolio behind the Trust Identity Protocol (TIP). Trust Identity Protocol was registered on the Supplemental Register on June 30, 2026, as U.S. Reg. No. 8,329,395. TIP followed on the Principal Register on August 4, 2026, as U.S. Reg. No. 8380201, and AI Trust Council on October 6, 2026, as U.S. Reg. No. 8483190.
Applications for The AI Lab, AI Trust Registry, AI Trust ID and The Global Seal of Trust as a word mark are still pending. The brand guidelines list the status and correct symbol for each.
What comes next #
A registration has to be kept alive. The owner must file a declaration of continued use between the fifth and sixth anniversaries, here between November 10, 2031 and November 10, 2032, and renew every ten years after that, as the USPTO explains in keeping your registration alive.
New registrations also draw solicitations that look official. The USPTO warns about misleading notices and says its own email comes only from the uspto.gov domain. This article was written with AI assistance and checked line by line against the USPTO record. The AI Lab publishes this article and owns the mark it reports.
Dinesh Mendhe is the Founder and Chairman of The AI Lab and the inventor of the Trust Identity Protocol. Follow The AI Lab on LinkedIn, YouTube, X and Instagram.