Feature highlight: ID Manual wording search

Hi! This is Howard Katzenberg, GleanMark's founder. You likely have used the USPTO's ID Manual to help write goods and services descriptions and save your clients $200 a class. It's a great concept, but the USPTO search tool can be unintuitive and difficult to use.

GleanMark changes that. On the ID Manual tab of GleanMark's USPTO Research page, just link to your client's website, upload a document, or describe the goods and services in your own words, and GleanMark returns the closest pre-approved wording.

Here's a real example: Athnetik, a Texas company that offers sports training and physical therapy. I type its website, athnetik.com, and press Read site.

In a few seconds, GleanMark lists what the client sells. Each item shows the sentence on the site it came from, and its class: physical therapy in class 44, the training and baseball lessons in class 41. The classes and fees add up on the right.

Untick anything the client doesn't sell, and fix any name. I shorten this one to physical therapy, so GleanMark searches for exactly that.

Then I press Find ID Manual wording.

When an entry says what the client sells, it starts ticked. Physical therapy is the best match, used in more than 2,400 filings.

When no entry says it all, GleanMark shows the closest ones, unticked, and what the closest one leaves out. You decide. I tick personal fitness training services.

Your description builds on the right, class by class. For each line, choose in use or planned. The fee line shows $700 for two classes, if every entry is selected in the USPTO's Trademark Center.

Finish: file at the USPTO turns it into a checklist. Every line has its Term ID, the USPTO's own number for the entry, with copy icons, and the steps to follow in Trademark Center. Save with client links it to your client and records who signed off.

Whichever way you start, you end with pre-approved wording, Term IDs and fees.

To turn your clients' websites into pre-approved wording, start a free trial or book a short walkthrough at gleanmark.com.