Feature highlight: Cited Marks research

Hi! This is Howard Katzenberg, GleanMark's founder. A registration is blocking your client's application. Has anyone else faced that same obstacle and registered anyway? What did they file? GleanMark's Cited Marks tab helps you find those cases and read the responses.

Here's PICKLE-BALL, a registration for paddles, balls, and a net. I type the name and select the registration.

GleanMark lists the applications it has found refused over this registration since January 2025. See which are still pending, which were abandoned, and which registered after the refusal.

Filter by class to focus your research. Here, the cited applications include equipment, clothing, and services, so you can narrow the list to the categories relevant to your client.

I select Registered anyway. Each card shows the refusal and registration dates. When GleanMark has the filed response, you can open it directly.

Take Franklin Sports. Its foam pickleball mark was refused in January. It responded in April, received approval for publication four days later, and registered in October.

Open the response, and you can see what it submitted: a consent agreement signed with the owner of PICKLE-BALL. That's useful context before discussing whether to pursue consent in your own matter.

Another example is BUILT FOR PICKLEBALL, for an online store. Its registered services describe the sport without using the word pickleball. Open its response to review the amended wording, the disclaimer, and its arguments about differences between the marks.

Instead of hunting through application files, you now have responses from applicants that registered after facing this same cited mark. Download the list as a spreadsheet, with links to the refusals and available responses, to keep the research in your file.

Research the registrations cited against your own applications. Start a free trial or book a short walkthrough at gleanmark.com.