GleanMark Trademark Search

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, design codes) with mark-similarity and commercial-overlap scoring. Returns 4-tier risk-grouped results (very_high/high/medium/low) with confusion scores, plus a dead-mark "naming territory" sample. The top-line verdict is calibrated four-tier — CRITICAL CONFLICTS / ELEVATED RISK / MODERATE RISK / LOW RISK — with a one-line reason, so multi-name shortlists rank meaningfully. ALWAYS pass goods_description when the user has told you what they sell — the risk bands score goods/services relatedness, so an identical mark in a related-goods class reads VERY_HIGH only when the goods are supplied (class-only scoring understates it). It does NOT check domain availability and does NOT run a brand/web availability check — for that, use check_brand_availability instead. Most searches finish in under a minute; before calling, give the user a one-line heads-up that it may take up to a minute. Optional owner_name adds portfolio context — shows the applicant's existing marks in searched classes.

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 questions.

Search GleanMark's USPTO trademark database and return citable results. Each result is a US trademark record with a stable id, a human-readable title (mark, owner and status) and a public gleanmark.com URL. Use the fetch tool with a returned id to read the full record. Covers 14M+ USPTO applications and registrations, live and dead.

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"). Use match="all" for "claims at least these colours", match="only" for "claims exactly these and nothing else", match="only_bw" to also tolerate black/white. Set claimed=false to count marks whose statement DISCLAIMS colour. Modes: count, top_owners, list_marks, vocabulary (list the valid families or shades with corpus counts), explain_term (which family a shade belongs to), by_serial (what one mark claims).

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 "stripe", and has no entry for words like "swoosh", so a plain shape word resolves to a code through mode="search_codes" before marks can be counted or listed. Modes: count, top_owners, list_marks, by_serial (what codes one mark carries), describe_code, search_codes. Omitting mode infers it from the arguments supplied.

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 (match_mode all = every keyword must appear, any = at least one). Rows return a short excerpt around the matched clause, NOT the full recitation. mode=count answers "how many marks claim X" with class/status breakdowns; mode=top_owners ranks the owners claiming X — neither pulls rows. This searches goods/services TEXT, not mark names — for mark-name conflicts use run_knockout_search or search_trademarks.

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 earlier registrations). Answers "which marks disclaim PIZZA" and "which marks are described as stripes". Colour claims have their own tool (search_claimed_colors); goods text is served by search_trademarks. Modes: count, top_terms, top_owners, list_marks, by_serial (every statement on one mark), statement_types. USE mode="top_terms" with nice_class to RANK the most-disclaimed terms in a class — this answers "what is the most disclaimed term in Class 9?" (returns a ranked list with per-term mark counts; disclaimers only). For top_terms use status "live" (= registered + pending; the ranking does not separate them — say so in the answer), "any", or "dead"; a registered-only RANKING is not available. A single term's registered-only count IS available: mode="count" with text=<term> and status="registered" (any length, even "AI"). Neither the USPTO public search nor a web search can produce this ranking.

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 / KWIK KOPY). Thin results here are never proof a name is absent or available; availability questions belong to run_knockout_search.

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-name filters. For one known case after discovery, use get_ttab_proceeding_details; for owner enforcement statistics, use get_owner_ttab_enforcement.

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; entries with {curly-brace} placeholders are fill-in templates.

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). Deterministic — no AI rewriting.

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.