Feature highlight: Office Action Page

Hi! This is Howard Katzenberg, GleanMark's founder. In this video, we'll walk you through GleanMark's office action page. It answers your first questions about a new office action: what kind of letter it is, when it's due, what the examiner refused or required, and what the cited registration covers.

My Office Actions lists your firm's open office actions, soonest due first, with the days left, the extension, and the issues. Your deadlines and the mark's own page open the same page. Our example is HYPER REELS, Light & Wonder's application for live table games.

HYPER REELS received a non-final office action in September. The response is due on a Saturday, December 19, so GleanMark notes that a filing the next Monday is timely. The extension is still unused, and would move the deadline to March.

There are two issues: a 2(d) refusal over one registration, HYPERREAL, and a requirement to amend the description of the mark. Both open with the examiner's own words.

Compare the two records side by side. The application covers live table games. HYPERREAL's registration covers avatars, virtual performances, game software, and more. It's also under five years old, which matters if you're weighing a petition to cancel it.

GleanMark also lists other applications it has found refused over the same registration. Here, it's the client's other HYPER REELS application, and you can read its response.

The crowded field counts other owners' live registrations in these classes that use HYPER as a word. Here, more than 100 do.

On the right, set a status, assign a colleague, or add a task. Respond in TEAS and Request extension open the USPTO's forms.

The record holds the letters and responses on this mark, the USPTO's events, and the letter itself, as the USPTO's PDF.

Click the examiner's name to see similar cases. USPTO Research opens with this examiner's other 2(d) refusals that were decided after a response. Each case shows how it ended and, when GleanMark has the response, what the applicant did.

When you're ready, Draft the response writes a first draft, and Create client letter starts a letter to your client. Beside the examiner's name, Analyze compares up to 12 of these cases. It has its own video.

See what each new office action needs, and when, on one page. Start a free trial or book a short walkthrough at gleanmark.com.