A disclaimer is a standard statement that the owner claims no exclusive right to a word on its own. Enter a word, a mark or a serial number and your class, and GleanMark counts the live registered marks that contain the word and how many of them disclaimed it, with the marks behind the number.
Word PIZZA · Class 43
Disclaimed in most registrations95%
of the marks that contain PIZZA disclaim it
1,502
live registered Class 43 marks contain PIZZA
The three groups the tool reports
This describes past registrations. It is not a prediction for your application.
What a disclaimer does
PIZZA stays in your mark, still counts when the Office compares your mark with others, and can be registered later if it becomes distinctive of your goods (Lanham Act §6(b)). Pushing back costs a response round; if the examiner holds firm, you can still enter the disclaimer.
The standard wording
“No claim is made to the exclusive right to use PIZZA apart from the mark as shown.”
How it works
Type a word or a whole mark and pick your class; each word is checked on its own. A serial number fills in the classes and, when the letter is in our records, the words the examiner named.
By hand: A register search per word and class, then the disclaimer field of every record, one at a time.
See the percentage of live registered marks that disclaim the word, split into three groups: disclaimed it, disclaimed other wording instead, or disclaimed nothing. Supplemental Register, whole-mark acquired-distinctiveness and lapsed registrations sit on a separate “not counted” line.
By hand: Sort every hit into the three groups in a spreadsheet and work out the percentage yourself.
Two lists: marks registered with the word disclaimed, and marks registered without disclaiming it. Download every mark in both lists to Excel, with each registration’s disclaimer wording, not just the page on screen.
By hand: Open each record in TSDR and copy its disclaimer into your notes.
What the register can show
Registrations that disclaim a word can show what the word means in the trade, much as a dictionary does.
See Interstate Brands v. Celestial Seasonings. Registrations that do not disclaim it can support, but not establish, that it is suggestive of your goods. Each application is decided on its own record, and the Office is not bound by earlier registrations (In re Nett Designs; In re Shinnecock Smoke Shop). And a disclaimed word still counts when marks are compared: see In re National Data (Fed. Cir. 1985).
These figures describe how past registrations were recorded. They are not a prediction. Some disclaimers were entered by the applicant without being asked.
Run it on your next disclaimer requirement, or before you file. Included in Professional and Max.
The PIZZA figures are a count of live registered Class 43 marks made on October 10, 2026. A search in another class or on another date gives a different count.