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Prove the cited mark is weak, with a count the examiner can check.

Enter the cited formative and your classes. GleanMark returns every live registered mark that uses it, anywhere in the mark or only at the start, with class spread and owner clusters, and exports the whole field.

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Crowded field on the registerTry a real formative

128

live registered marks lead with APEX

100

different owners

7

held by the largest owner

APEX alone · 52APEX + other words · 76

Classes these marks cover

Class 9
91
Class 42
45
Class 35
10
Class 41
7

Largest owner clusters

  • APEX MICROTECHNOLOGY, INC.7 marks
  • Elemental Scientific, Inc.6 marks
  • APTIV TECHNOLOGIES AG4 marks
Live register data · September 24, 2026Count your cited mark

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The Crowded Field tab counts the live registrations that already use the word your client's mark shares with a cited registration, and how many different owners hold them.

1:51. Shown on CONQUER FITNESS, refused over CONQUER. Transcript · All feature videos

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THRIVED was refused over THRIVE GLOBAL. The register held 24 THRIVE-formative registrations from 21 owners.

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Office action · §2(d)

THRIVED

Software for student behavioral threat assessments (Class 42). Refused over THRIVE GLOBAL (Reg. 7666157), software for behavior change and well-being.

What the register showed

24

THRIVE-formative registrations

21

different owners

Class 42 and related software fields. And the bare word THRIVE (Apic Bio, Inc., 2020) already shares the register with the cited THRIVE GLOBAL (2025).

The draft argues the cited mark deserves only a narrow scope, and attaches the records as three exhibits.

Exhibit 1

Third-party THRIVE-formative registrations · record printouts

Reg. No.MarkOwnerClasses
6790190THRIVEShopventory, Inc.42
7814609THRIVEAffini-T Therapeutics, Inc.42
4769802THRIVESIGNATURE HEALTHCARE, LLC42
7063590HIGHER LOGIC THRIVEHigher Logic, LLC42
7663003THRIVE ON RISKMetricStream, Inc.35, 41, 42, 45
6607339T THRIVEThrive Operations, LLC42
5685717SOCIAL THRIVESocial Drive, LLC16, 35, 41, 42
7135610THRIVE SCORECARDPlanttagg, Inc.42
8173429THRIVE HEALTHThrive Health Inc.42
7439485WHERE SOFTWARE GOES TO THRIVEIGNITE ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS, LLC42

A selection from the exhibit's 21 record pages. Registrations owned by individuals are left out of this page.

How it works

The same count you would build by hand, without the afternoon.

  1. 01

    Start from the cited mark

    Enter the formative from the cited registration and the classes you care about. Terms under four characters match the whole mark exactly, so a short word does not sweep in every longer one.

    By hand: A TESS query per term and class, rerun for every variation.

  2. 02

    Read the live register

    GleanMark pulls every live, registered mark that leads with the term, plurals included, then groups the field by class and by owner. Pending and dead marks stay out of the count.

    By hand: Open each hit in TSDR to check its status and owner, then tally them in a spreadsheet.

  3. 03

    Export the whole field

    Download every mark in the field to Excel, not just the page on screen, ready to turn into your exhibit.

    By hand: Print or screenshot each record and assemble the exhibit one page at a time.

Why the argument works

When many owners register marks built on the same term for related goods, the term is weak, and consumers tell the marks apart by what else they say.

See Juice Generation v. GS Enterprises and Jack Wolfskin v. New Millennium Sports (both Fed. Cir. 2015). Registrations show the term is shared; evidence of use in the market adds weight, so pair the count with web evidence where you can.

When an examiner says the marks share a dominant word, a crowded field is the answer.

Questions attorneys ask

Yes. The count finds the word anywhere in the mark by default. Word position narrows it to marks that start with it, end with it or carry it in the middle. Starts with is the classic shape of the argument: marks that share the cited formative as their lead word.

What’s the count on your cited mark?

Run it on your next §2(d) refusal. Included in Professional and Max.

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The THRIVE figures come from GleanMark's THRIVED draft of September 25, 2026: the register search it ran for THRIVE-formative registrations in Class 42 and related software fields. A search with another scope or on another date gives a different count.

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