Feature highlight: Knockout Search

Hi! This is Howard Katzenberg, GleanMark's founder. In this video, we'll walk you through GleanMark's Knockout Search. It checks a new name against all live USPTO marks, ranks what it finds by risk, and records how the search was run, before anyone pays for a full clearance search.

Let's screen NEXTCEL for a telecommunications service. Enter the name, select classes 9 and 38, and describe the services. The description is optional, but it improves the conflict scoring.

In about a minute, the search is done. More than 1,000 marks came back, but only a short list rates high or very high. Start there. The summary names the closest obstacle: NEXTEL.

At the top are two NEXTEL registrations owned by T-Mobile Innovations: one for telecommunications services, and one for telecommunications equipment, such as mobile radios. Both are rated very high, both are in your classes, and both show high overlap with your services.

Click the light bulb to see why a mark matched. Here, it's one letter off, in the same class, and several searches found it, including sound-alike and look-alike.

Adjust the list to your own judgment. Rate a mark yourself, drag it within its rating, or add a mark the search didn't return. Your downloads follow your ratings and your order.

How We Searched documents the work: 16 search methods, including sound-alikes, look-alikes, shared words, related classes, and foreign translations. Each row shows what was searched and how many marks it found. Keep it with the client file.

Dead Marks shows what happened to similar names. NEXTCEL itself was filed in November 2024, in the same two classes. The examiner refused it under 2(d), citing both NEXTEL registrations at the top of this knockout. The application was abandoned.

Export the knockout as a PDF, Word, or Excel file, and choose which sections and ratings to include. A knockout is a first screen. When a name passes it, a full clearance report goes further.

Screen new names before your clients invest in them. Start a free trial or book a short walkthrough at gleanmark.com.