Feature highlight: Citation Alerts

Hi! This is Howard Katzenberg, GleanMark's founder. In this video, we'll walk you through GleanMark's citation alerts. They tell you when an examiner refuses someone else's application because of your client's registration, so you can decide what to do next.

GleanMark checks new office actions daily. When it finds a 2(d) refusal that cites a registration in one of your portfolios, a citation alert appears in your workspace's alerts inbox. Here are the ones for our example client, Light & Wonder.

Take this one. The examiner refused an application for DARK SAILS, filed by Quality Integrations Network.

Why does this matter? The examiner has already found the new mark likely to be confused with your client's. To keep the application alive, the applicant can argue that the marks aren't similar, amend the application, or seek a consent agreement with your client.

Open their office action for the response deadline and the record, side by side. Their application is for card games and playing cards, and the record shows no first use in commerce. If your client wants them to choose another name, you can raise it before they've claimed any use.

To see who else GleanMark has found refused over a registration, and who registered anyway, open the Cited Marks tab in USPTO Research. It has its own video.

To follow what happens next, track their application, with Prosecution and Milestones alerts on. GleanMark will alert you when they respond, if the application is abandoned, and if it's published, with the deadline to oppose.

To get citation alerts by email too, keep Portfolio changes emails on and turn on Citations of your portfolio marks.

Know when examiners cite your clients' marks, and plan the next step early. Start a free trial or book a short walkthrough at gleanmark.com.