Feature highlight: TTAB case research

Hi! This is Howard Katzenberg, GleanMark's founder. If a big brand has ever opposed your client's application, you know what your client asks first. Will they really fight this? And if they do, who wins? Today I want to show you how GleanMark answers both, from the Trademark Board's own record.

The answers are on GleanMark's USPTO Research page, under TTAB. It finds Board cases by how they ended. It opens on about 100,000 oppositions and cancellations filed since 2016.

Say Monster Energy has opposed your client. I type Monster Energy and tick Opposition. That's 773 oppositions with Monster Energy as a party.

Now look at how they ended. 312 were default judgments, because the applicant never answered. 141 ended when the applicant abandoned, and 135 when the plaintiff withdrew. Only 12 were decided on the merits, after briefs or testimony.

One click on the On the merits button shows those 12. Each card says how it ended: opposition sustained, or dismissed. All 12 have the Board's written opinion on file, and the Read opinion link opens it on the USPTO's docket.

Monster won four of them. The applicants won eight. So now you can answer your client from the record: 773 oppositions, 12 decided on the merits, and the Board's reasoning in every one, a click away.

And you don't need a party name. I clear Monster Energy and keep the rest. That's 850 oppositions since 2016 that the Board decided after briefs or testimony.

Tick Precedential only, and it narrows to 45 cases with a precedential opinion, the kind that binds the Board. That's the Board's own reasoning, ready for your next brief.

To research TTAB cases for your own matters, start a free trial or book a short walkthrough at gleanmark.com.