Feature highlight: Knockout vs Clearance

Hi! This is Howard Katzenberg, GleanMark's founder. In this video, we'll walk you through the difference between GleanMark's Knockout Search and Clearance Report. Both start with the same search of the USPTO register. Clearance adds checks beyond the register, a written analysis, and a fuller report.

Here's AGENT ADVANTAGE, for AI customer-relationship software and consulting, run both ways. Knockout checks the name against live USPTO marks, from sound-alikes to shared words, and ranks what it finds by risk. Deloitte's pending application and Guaranteed Rate's registration, both for the same name, are at the top.

A knockout usually comes back in under a minute. You get the ranked list, a risk summary, tabs for the crowded field and dead marks, and a record of how it searched. You can rate the marks yourself.

When a name is worth pursuing, click Run a full clearance report. The name and classes carry over, and you add the goods and services. Clearance runs the same search, and the same two marks lead its list.

Clearance also looks beyond the register: a web search for businesses using the name, domain names, and social media handles. Here, several businesses use AGENT ADVANTAGE online, the .com is parked, and the name is taken on several social platforms. These are signals, not a full common-law search.

GleanMark also writes an analysis, usually ready a couple of minutes after you start. A risk scorecard covers the name itself, similar marks, the other statutory bars, and web use. The closest conflicts get a factor-by-factor DuPont analysis under Section 2(d). When it finds them, two more tabs show how examiners treated similar marks, and which similar names coexist on the register.

Both export to PDF, Word, and Excel. The clearance report leads with the risk assessment, strategy options, and next steps, with the analysis and evidence in the appendices. It's a first-pass clearance for your review, not a clearance opinion.

Run a knockout to screen each name a client is considering. Run a clearance report when a client is ready to adopt, file, or invest in a name. Each has its own short video.

Pick the right search for each stage of a new name. Start a free trial or book a short walkthrough at gleanmark.com.