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• Introducing GleanMark

  Eleven years as a CFO, a trademark fight over my own company name, and the tool I wished existed. GleanMark is live.

  Aug 9, 2026
• Similar Marks Analysis: How to Find, Compare, and Assess Trademark Conflicts

  A trademark examiner issues a Section 2(d) refusal citing a mark you have never seen. Your client asks whether a competitor's new filing poses a real threat or just looks similar on paper.

  Mar 30, 2026
• Trademark Watch Alerts: Automated Monitoring That Catches Threats Early

  A competitor files a mark that sounds identical to yours. It publishes for opposition.

  Mar 30, 2026
• Markus AI: The Trademark Copilot That Searches, Analyzes, and Drafts for You

  Trademark research is not one task. It is dozens of small tasks stitched together — searching a database, pulling prosecution records, comparing similar marks, checking TTAB filings, reading office actions, and synthesizing all of it into a recommendation.

  Mar 30, 2026
• AI Office Action Response Drafting: From USPTO Refusal to Attorney-Ready Draft in Minutes

  A trademark office action lands in your inbox. The examiner has cited three registered marks under Section 2(d), flagged your specimen, and requested a disclaimer. The clock starts ticking: three months to respond for most applications, with one three-month extension available for a fee.

  Mar 30, 2026
• Knockout Search: The Examiner-Style Clearance Tool That Finds Conflicts Before Filing

  A trademark application costs at least $350 per class in USPTO filing fees alone. Add attorney time and you are looking at $1,000 to $2,500 before the examining attorney even opens your file.

  Mar 30, 2026
• The TESS Replacement Built for How Examiners Actually Search

  When the USPTO retired TESS (Trademark Electronic Search System) in November 2023, trademark attorneys lost more than a search engine.

  Mar 30, 2026
• How GleanMark's AI Trademark Search Works: Phonetic, Visual, and Semantic Matching

  AI trademark search is fundamentally different from the keyword-based tools that trademark professionals have relied on for decades.

  Mar 9, 2026
• GleanMark for Law Firms: Trademark Monitoring and Portfolio Management at Scale

  Every trademark attorney knows the routine. A client calls about a potential conflict.

  Mar 6, 2026
• GleanMark vs Corsearch: Which Trademark Platform Fits Your Practice?

  If you are weighing GleanMark vs Corsearch for trademark search and monitoring, you are comparing two fundamentally different approaches to the same set of problems.

  Mar 4, 2026
• Trademark Search Strategy: Beyond TESS

  On November 30, 2023, the USPTO retired TESS -- the Trademark Electronic Search System that had served as the foundation of countless trademark search strategies for over two decades.

  Feb 20, 2026
• USPTO Trademark Search vs GleanMark: Why Attorneys Are Making the Switch

  If you searched for "TESS," you're not alone. The USPTO's Trademark Electronic Search System was retired on November 30, 2023, replaced by a new cloud-based platform called Trademark Search.

  Feb 6, 2026
• Why We Built GleanMark — From Frustration to Freedom

  It was the perfect name. Short, memorable, meaningful. We built Glean to help finance teams see what they were missing in their spend — gleaning insights from data that was hiding in plain sight.

  Feb 10, 2025