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Cited formative APEX · Classes 9, 42
128
registered marks start with APEX
100
different owners
52 of them are the word APEX alone, held by 48 different owners.
14M
USPTO trademark records
390K+
TTAB oppositions, cancellations and appeals
71K+
ID Manual identifications
Three arguments examiners make in §2(d) refusals, and the tool that answers each one.
Cited Marks New
Has anyone gotten past this registration?
Enter the registration your client was refused over. See the other applications the USPTO refused over it since January 2025, which of them registered anyway, and read their responses. Older refusals are a click away, labeled. The same list sits on your Office Action page, open whenever someone got through.
Fame Rulings New
Has the Board ruled this brand famous?
Search by mark, owner or serial number. GleanMark collects the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s rulings on whether a brand owner’s mark is famous: a household name, famous for the goods the Board named, strong but not famous, or not proven famous. Each ruling is quoted from the opinion, dated, and linked to the case and to the registrations with the same wording. The same rulings mark cited marks as Board-found famous in Knockout and Clearance.
Disclaimers
How often is this word disclaimed?
Before you disclaim a word, or push back on a requirement to, see what other owners did. Enter a word, a mark or a serial number and your class. GleanMark counts the live registered marks that contain the word and shows how many disclaimed it, how many disclaimed other wording instead, and how many disclaimed nothing, with the marks behind each number. Enter your serial number and, when we hold the letter, the words the examiner asked you to disclaim are already picked. It describes past registrations; it is not a prediction for your application.
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What did the Board do in cases like this?
Before you advise a client to oppose, or to answer an opposition, read how the Board handled similar cases. Find Trademark Trial and Appeal Board cases by how they ended, with no party name needed, and search close to 950,000 passages from Board decisions, orders, briefs and answers, each labeled with who wrote it. Included with Professional and Max during the beta.
See TTAB researchSearch the text of office actions and the responses filed to them, across files. Filter by refusal type (Section 2(d), descriptiveness, specimen, disclaimer and 20+ others), outcome (registered, abandoned, pending), examiner, Nice class, OA date and response status, so the cases on screen are the ones that bear on yours.
On your Office Action page, click the examining attorney’s name. USPTO Research opens on that examiner’s letters that raised the same issues as yours and ended in a registration, each with GleanMark’s summary of the response, newest first. You start from what worked with this examiner instead of a blank page. If there are none yet, it opens all of the examiner’s letters with your issues.
Judge a case in one read instead of clicking through its TSDR documents. Any result opens on GleanMark’s Office Action page: each issue in the examiner’s own words, the application beside the registration it was refused over, every round of the file, and the USPTO’s own record of what happened next.
From the letter on your desk to a first draft built on real cases.
Click the examining attorney’s name on your Office Action page to open their letters that raised the same issues and ended in a registration. Or search by mark, owner, serial number, examiner, or any words in the office action or response text.
Filter by refusal type, the §2(d) argument the examiner made, outcome, Nice class, examiner, OA date and response status. Each result shows the mark, its refusals, how it ended, and its goods.
Open any case for the letter, the response, the cited marks and what happened next, with GleanMark’s summary of what the applicant argued wherever we hold the response. Select 2 to 10 cases and Analyze Strategy writes up what they share and what the successful responses did, citing each case.
Tag Thor Tech pairs and download them as an exhibit bundle with a TSDR status copy for each. Then Draft the response on your Office Action page writes a first response to each issue, with its arguments and the evidence it cites, for you to edit.
TSDR shows one file at a time. USPTO Research searches across them.
| Feature | GM GleanMark USPTO Research | TSDR, one file at a time |
|---|---|---|
| Office actions | Searched across files, with the responses filed to them | One file at a time |
| Refusal type filtering | 20+ refusal types, and the §2(d) argument the examiner made | Not available |
| Full-text search | Office action and response text | Not available |
| Find similar refusals | One click from your letter | Not available |
| What the applicant argued | Summarized, wherever we hold the response | Read each response yourself |
| Patterns across cases | A written strategy analysis of 2 to 10 cases you pick | Not available |
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Office action drafting
“When we first get an office action, I can plug it right in and see what the drafting comes up with. Does it make sense? Do we have a strong argument? Sometimes it's like, wow, okay, we have a better argument than I thought.”
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Managing Member, Law Office of Jason H. Rosenblum, PLLC
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