Feature highlight: Crowded Field evidence

Hi! This is Howard Katzenberg, GleanMark's founder. Your client's mark shares a word with a cited registration. Before arguing that the shared wording deserves limited protection, you need evidence. GleanMark's Crowded Field tab finds relevant registrations, shows who owns them, and gives you a list to work from.

Here's Conquer Fitness, for personal training, refused over CONQUER, owned by Les Mills. I enter the application's serial number. GleanMark identifies CONQUER as the search term and fills in class 41.

62 live registrations contain CONQUER in class 41, from 53 different owners. Pending applications, dead marks, and Supplemental Register registrations are excluded.

Choose where the word appears. Anywhere searches throughout the mark. Starts with focuses on marks that begin with CONQUER, like this application. Ends with narrows it another way. The search matches whole words, including singular and plural forms.

You can also start with the cited registration's number. GleanMark uses its classes and excludes that registration from the results. Adjust the classes yourself to focus the search.

Next, check the owners. Les Mills appears here with several registrations. Those belong to the cited owner, so distinguish them from the third-party registrations you might use in your argument.

Then examine the services. Conquer Motherhood covers fitness training. Conquer Ninja includes obstacle course training and fitness instruction. Conquer the Bridge covers running and walking events. Review the wording and services to identify the examples most relevant to your client.

Export the results to a spreadsheet, including registration numbers, owners, and full goods and services. Select the registrations you want to rely on, then obtain their USPTO records for your response. This gives you a starting point for a weakness argument; marketplace-use evidence is a separate research task.

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