GleanMark Trademark Search

Analyze the full prosecution history of a trademark — narrative timeline of office actions, responses, examiner decisions, and current status, with examiner-behavior patterns. For authenticated users this launches asynchronously (usually done in under a minute; longer for large file histories) and r

Analyze a TTAB (Trademark Trial and Appeal Board) proceeding in depth — fetches and analyzes proceeding documents, identifies key arguments, and returns a structured summary with timeline, party positions, and strategic assessment. For authenticated full-mode runs this launches asynchronously (typic

Quick brand availability check — combines domain availability with a trademark conflict signal. Returns a recommendation tier (avoid, probably avoid, promising, or no conflicts found). Good first step before a full clearance search.

Check domain availability for a brand name. Returns status (available, parked, commercially used, or taken) for each TLD, plus .com variations (e.g., getbrand.com, brandhq.com).

Compare two trademarks for likelihood of confusion using DuPont-style analysis. Returns similarity scores and risk assessment.

Count and preview USPTO marks by record attributes rather than owner identity, with mark-type, standard-character, and Nice-class breakdowns plus metadata coverage. Use this for drawing type, standard-character, Nice-class, status, and cross-attribute counts. It can intersect claimed-color criteria

Look up coordinated Nice classes or related Nice classes for a given class number.

Aggregate event-to-event pendency across a COHORT of marks — e.g. "average days from office action to publication for marks published in Q2 2026". Pick the cohort by an anchor event (preset: publication, notice_of_publication, registration, notice_of_allowance, abandonment, first_office_action — or

Get all trademarks handled by a specific attorney/correspondent, with prosecution event counts and office action flags. Returns marks sorted by prosecution history length. Use this for attorney-specific mark queries.

Summarize what a named correspondent specializes in, including top clients, top Nice classes, and prosecution-versus-TTAB profile. Use this when the user asks what a specific correspondent or attorney specializes in.

Check whether a specific USPTO event code satisfies a specific deadline type such as office action response, opposition period, Section 8, or Section 15.

Look up USPTO event codes used in trademark prosecution. Search by exact code, code prefix, or keyword in the event description. Returns the code, human-readable description, and category.

Look up which USPTO status code and status definition most commonly follow a specific prosecution event code.

Get the full fame profile for a brand (by mark wording or brand stem): fame tier (broad/dilution-tier vs market-specific), the fame "path" it cleared (concentrated dominant family vs large multi-class portfolio), its famous class footprint, corporate-family portfolio size and class breadth, brand-st

Resolve a trademark law firm and return what its lawyers should focus on: overdue/next-window action-required deadlines plus recent Office Actions from both case-file events and prosecution documents, including ROA-filed and §2(d) indicators. Use this for questions like "what correspondent tasks sho

Get public, system-generated trademark deadlines across marks handled by a specific law firm. Uses public firm resolution and prosecution mappings only. Does not expose any workspace, client, reminder, or user-created deadline data.

Resolve a trademark law firm and compute mark-level Office Action outcome rates: how many firm-handled marks registered after receiving an OA, raw and excluding pending matters. Use this for questions like "what percentage registered after an OA?" or "OA success rate for this firm".

Get the leading correspondents or attorneys inside one named law firm, ranked by filing volume with prosecution and TTAB activity counts. Use this when the user asks for top correspondents at a specific firm, such as "Who are the top correspondents at Fross Zelnick?"

Get the latest office action for a trademark serial number, plus the latest recorded response if one exists, and the VERIFIED refusal grounds (with cited registration numbers) parsed from the OA text. Use refusal_grounds as the authoritative answer to "what is this OA about / what ground is the refu

Get an AI-generated deep-dive summary of a specific trademark. Covers mark details, goods/services, status, owner, prosecution context, and any active legal proceedings.

Get public, system-generated trademark deadlines for a specific mark. Accepts a serial number directly or resolves a mark name to a specific serial first. Does not expose any workspace, client, reminder, or user-created deadline data.

Get the international / foreign footprint of a U.S. trademark by serial number: its Madrid Protocol international registration (IR number, date, status, renewal), whether it was filed as a 66(a) Madrid extension, Madrid maintenance (§8/§15, renewal), and the foreign applications/registrations it cla

Show which owners hold marks matching a shared trademark term and summarize what else those owners have in their broader portfolios. Use this for crowded owner-landscape questions like "Which companies own a trademark for COMET?" or "Who owns trademarks for GLEAN?" Returns the matching owners ranked

Get a compact prosecution summary for a trademark serial number. Returns current status, document counts, latest office action/response dates, milestones, and the latest key event.

Get information about Nice Classification classes used for trademark registration. Lookup specific class numbers or search for classes by keyword.

Get an AI-generated strategic analysis of a trademark owner. Covers brand protection philosophy, litigation posture, portfolio evolution, class distribution, and likely future behavior. Results are cached for 30 days.

Get public, system-generated trademark deadlines across a specific owner’s marks. Uses public USPTO owner resolution only. Does not expose any workspace, client, reminder, or user-created deadline data.

Get a trademark owner's filing trends over time — yearly filing counts broken down by Nice class. Shows how the owner's trademark portfolio has evolved.

Get the most frequent goods/services keywords for a trademark owner. Shows what products and services the owner focuses on, useful for understanding their brand strategy and identifying class patterns.

Find entities likely related to a trademark owner (predecessors, subsidiaries, sister companies) from USPTO evidence: shared ownership history on the same marks, shared filing addresses (agent addresses excluded), and shared distinctive name tokens. Returns evidence and a high/possible confidence ti

Analyze one trademark owner's TTAB enforcement in a single call. Filters and counts only target marks that actually satisfy the requested class, mark-type, and claimed-color criteria; separately reports all targets attached to qualifying proceedings. Supports exact class-only questions with target_c

Get a compact TTAB history for one owner with substantive inter partes, opposition, cancellation, extension, appeal, and role breakdowns. Do not equate total records with initiated oppositions. Use get_owner_ttab_enforcement for date ranges or challenged-mark/class analysis.

Retrieve one specific USPTO prosecution document by the stable document_id returned from list_prosecution_documents, USPTO document id, code, or date. Returns the working USPTO document link, extraction/readability status, cached document text, and optional query-centered excerpts. Use text_query wh

Get the prosecution timeline for a trademark — chronological list of office actions, responses, and key events (publication, registration, suspension, etc.). Raw data without AI analysis.

Look up USPTO or TTAB reference codes and small lookup tables such as status codes, statement types, legal entity types, Nice classes, design codes, and TTAB proceeding/status/role codes.

Find USPTO trademarks similar to a given mark name. Uses examiner-style knockout search with phonetic, trigram, and component matching to identify potential conflicts. Returns similarity_score (mark-only similarity) and confusion_score (blended mark + commercial overlap). Useful for trademark cleara

Get a ranked filer table for a date range, filer type, and optional Nice classes. Use this when the user asks for top filers, top owners, top law firms, or top correspondents by class or date, such as "Who are the top 10 filers in Class 9 in 2025?" Returns the ranked rows with per-filer live, regist

Get aggregate statistics about USPTO trademark filings, registrations, and TTAB proceedings.

Retrieve and read one specific TTABVUE filing by proceeding number and entry number. Returns filing metadata, a working USPTO TTABVUE viewer link, direct PDF link when available, extraction/readability status, document text, and optional query-centered excerpts. Use get_ttab_proceeding_details first

Get raw details for a TTAB proceeding — parties, involved marks, counsel, and recent filings with entry numbers and working TTABVUE document links. Use get_ttab_document to read one selected filing. Use get_owner_ttab_enforcement for owner-wide distributions and analyze_ttab_proceeding for AI-powere

Check whether a trademark is FAMOUS — and, critically, famous FOR A SPECIFIC MARKET (you pass the applicant's Nice class as a PROXY for that market; fame is market-determined, there is no per-class fame doctrine). Fame is market-specific (Joseph Phelps Vineyards v. Fairmont): a mark famous for elect

List prosecution documents for a trademark serial number, including stable document identifiers, working USPTO links when available, extraction/readability status, office actions, responses, notices, and other dated filings. Use get_prosecution_document to read one selected document.

Get detailed information about a specific USPTO trademark by its serial number. Returns owner, status, filing dates, goods/services, correspondent (attorney/law firm of record — use this for "which firm represents/is correspondent for" questions), and more.

Find trademarks whose WHOLE mark sounds similar to the given mark (Metaphone + trigram, whole-mark similarity threshold). LIMITS: it compares entire marks, so multi-word marks that merely CONTAIN a sound-alike word are invisible to it — "KWIK REWARDS" will NOT surface for a QUICK query even though K

Recommend Nice trademark classes based on a business description. Returns the most relevant classes with confidence scores and explanations.

Research the Office Action for a trademark — returns structured refusal categories, latest OA/response context, cited marks, and third-party registrations that support coexistence arguments. For authenticated users this launches asynchronously (typically 1-2 minutes) and returns a processing handle

Resolve an owner, law firm, correspondent, mark, TTAB proceeding, client, or portfolio to the best trademark entity match. Resolving clients and portfolios requires authentication.

Run a full 13-factor DuPont likelihood of confusion analysis between two trademarks. Includes web research on the companies, market overlap analysis, and detailed factor-by-factor scoring. This is the most thorough confusion analysis available — use compare_marks for a quick check first.

Run an examiner-style knockout search with scoring via the unified knockout engine — the same engine the GleanMark product uses. This is a PURE USPTO conflict search over 14M trademark records (exact, phonetic, trigram, component words, coordinated class expansion, doctrine of foreign equivalents, d

Run a constrained business-level analytics query without exposing schema details. This is the default fallback for bespoke rankings, counts, snapshots, and timelines across owners, firms, and correspondents. Prefer this before chaining search, summary, or web research tools for aggregate business qu

Search for trademark attorneys or law firms. Returns prosecution statistics, TTAB proceeding counts (as plaintiff/defendant), and contact information.

Search for trademark owners by name. Use this to resolve or list candidate owners, not for owner counts, rankings, prosecution snapshots, or recent activity checks. Returns matching companies/individuals with their trademark portfolio statistics (total marks, live/dead counts, registered/pending).

Search or count US trademarks by the colours they claim, parsed from USPTO colour-claim statements. Neither TESS nor its successor offers this. TWO levels: level="family" (16 families; searching "red" also finds dark red, maroon, burgundy) and level="shade" (the exact term as claimed, e.g. "dark red

Find US trademarks by USPTO design code — the codes examiners assign to the visual elements of a logo (26.17.01 = straight bands, 24.11 = crowns). Accepts dotted (26.17.01) or packed (261701) form. USPTO design vocabulary is literal and narrow: it records "Bands, straight" where a person says "strip

Full-text search over the goods/services recitations of 14M USPTO marks — answers "who else claims X in their goods?" (competitive landscape, descriptiveness/crowded-field evidence, ID-drafting precedent). Keyword-based: the text is tokenized and matched against each mark's indexed goods keywords (m

Search the statements USPTO records on a trademark: disclaimer ("no claim is made to PIZZA apart from the mark"), description (the examiner's written description of the drawing — "the mark consists of a red and white striped awning"), translation (foreign wording), prior_marks (claimed ownership of

Search the USPTO trademark database by name — a RANKED similarity/prefix search that returns the closest whole-mark matches (14M records). It is NOT an exhaustive contains-scan: multi-word marks that merely contain the queried word rank low and are usually cut (a KWIK query will miss KWIK REWARDS /

Search TTAB proceedings using the same discovery index as the GleanMark TTAB workspace. Use for broad proceeding discovery by party name, exact 8-digit proceeding number, 8-digit trademark serial number, or 7-digit registration number. Supports status, proceeding type, matched party role, and owner-

Search the USPTO Trademark ID Manual (pre-approved, surcharge-free goods & services identifications) by plain words. Call once per distinct product/service line (e.g. construction services and lighting products are two separate calls), not once per whole business. Returns selectable Term IDs; entrie

Check a draft goods & services description against the USPTO ID Manual, clause by clause (clauses split on ";"). Each clause comes back verbatim (selectable pre-approved entry), close (with up to 3 pre-approved substitutes), or freeform (subject to the USPTO $200/class free-form surcharge). Determin

Research a company, trademark, or legal topic on the internet. Returns grounded results with source citations. Use for company background, recent news, common law trademark use, or case law research.