Both cover search, watches, docketing, TTAB research and office action drafting, and TM TKO reaches further outside the US. GleanMark puts its effort into the work after the search: a written risk assessment with every knockout, a clearance report with recommended next steps, drafts that answer every refusal and requirement, and client letters and USPTO event emails written for you. For one attorney, Professional is $249 a month; TM TKO's SOLO plan is $280.
Monster Energy as opposer, Class 32, since 2002
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| Feature | GM GleanMark | TM TKO |
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| Search & clearance | ||
| Knockout search | Available today. Four risk tiers, a reason for each mark, a written risk assessment | Available today. Top 100+ similar marks, risks pre-tagged, with charts1 |
| Clearance write-up | Available today. Full report: assessment, du Pont analysis, web and domain check, next steps | Available today. AI-drafted analysis of the marks you flag1 |
| Logo & design search | Available today. Upload a logo, or search by description and design code | Available today. Image search with design codes1 |
| Goods & services research | Available today. ID Manual search with usage counts and a TM5 filter | Available today. Related goods from use-based registrations1 |
| Office actions & research | ||
| Response drafts | Available today. Answers every refusal and requirement; case citations checked | Available today. §2(d) response drafts with registry evidence1 |
| Office action research | Available today. Search by refusal, examiner, class and outcome | Available today. Larger corpus: 11M+ prosecution documents, tagged by issue1,2 |
| Examiner statistics | Not offered. No allowance-rate charts; filter research by examiner | Available today. Examiner allowance rates by issue1 |
| Coexistence evidence (Thor Tech) | Available today. Different-owner pairs, affiliate check, Word chart plus status copies | Available today. ThorCheck: coexisting registrations, chart and TSDR exports1 |
| AI assistant, in plain English | Available today. Markus: ask about any mark, owner or deadline, here or in ChatGPT and Claude | Not listed on their site1 |
| Client work | ||
| Client reporting letters | Available today. Serial number in, a draft letter in your voice out | Not listed on their site1 |
| Automatic client emails | Available today. Sent to the client when the USPTO acts: office actions, publication, registration | Not listed on their site1 |
| Official USPTO copies | Available today. From a portfolio, mark page or draft: hash-checked, merged PDF plus ZIP | Available today. TSDR export: PDFs of status and title copies1 |
| Monitoring & docketing | ||
| Watches | Available today. Unlimited on Professional; the US federal register | Available today. Unlimited; also foreign registers, domains, pharmaceutical names1 |
| Alerts on your own marks | Available today. More than 30 alert types, incl. office actions, TTAB and §2(d) citations | Available today. Portfolio watches: office actions, 2(d) citations, deadlines1 |
| Docketing | Available today. US and TTAB deadlines from the record; foreign ones added by hand; calendar link | Available today. Deadlines for 4,000+ events in 11 jurisdictions; weekly email; calendar feed1 |
| Data & reach | ||
| Registers covered | Available today. US federal register, including Madrid filings into the US | Listed by vendor. US federal and state, Canada, Mexico, EUIPO, 30 European offices, Australia, NZ, WIPO2 |
| Business listings & pharmaceutical names | Not offered. Not offered | Listed by vendor. US business listings, 300M+ domain records, drug and substance names2 |
| TTAB | Available today. 650K+ proceedings, an AI summary of any, plain-English research (beta) | Available today. Search proceedings and filings; pre-tagged issues1 |
| Who it's for | ||
| Firms & in-house teams | Available today. Team workspace, shared docket; Google and Microsoft sign-in enforcement on Max | Available today. Per-user seats; SAML single sign-on1 |
| Brand owners & founders | Available today. Free plan monitors 3 marks; Starter $99/month | Written for trademark professionals1 |
| Pricing | ||
| One attorney | Professional $249/month | SOLO $280/month1 |
| Teams | $249 per user; Max $699 per user, $599 at 3+ | $560 (5 users), $1,120 (10), $1,680 (15)1 |
| Searches included | 25 knockouts per user and 2 clearance reports a month on Professional; unlimited knockouts on Max | Unlimited searches and watches1 |
| Lower-cost options | Free plan; Starter $99/month; $89 day pass | $84 day pass (no watches); free first month1 |
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If you clear or docket marks outside the US, TM TKO's coverage of foreign registers and foreign deadlines is a real advantage, and we'd tell you so. GleanMark puts its effort into the US register and into the work that follows a search: the assessment, the draft and the client letter.
Four places, with the evidence behind each
A knockout scores every candidate, sorts the field into four risk tiers and gives a plain-English reason each mark surfaced, then writes a risk assessment you can work from, with a crowded-field check and a family-of-marks warning when they apply. Each mark shows the search steps that found it, and the whole result exports as PDF, Word or Excel. You start with the marks in the top tiers instead of reading hundreds in one list.
Medians across the 185 knockout searches run on GleanMark from September 24 to October 24, 2026.
The results screen on a real run: TMZAP, 112 marks scored.
Drafts respond to every refusal and requirement in the office action, not just §2(d). Each argument names the registrations it relies on, case citations are checked against cases the USPTO itself has cited, and a before-you-file checklist lists the facts you still need to confirm.
An Evidence tab shows what each search looked for, what came back, and what the draft used.
The report opens with a clearance assessment, works through the du Pont factors on the closest marks, checks descriptiveness and the other registrability bars, looks at domain names and the web, and recommends next steps, with the supporting evidence after it.
Included every month (1 on Starter, 2 per account on Professional, 5 per user on Max), then $79 each.
Markus is GleanMark's assistant. Ask what is due next on a client's marks, who owns a portfolio, or whether an opposer usually follows through, and the answer comes back with the records it read. It works from your own workspace too, including your deadline docket and TTAB deadlines, so a status question for a client takes one message instead of a stack of TSDR tabs.
It also runs outside our app: connect GleanMark to ChatGPT or Claude and ask the same questions there.
Monster Energy as opposer, Class 32, since 2002
A real Markus session, answered in 61 seconds.
“I use GleanMark across clearance, office action responses, and general research. What sets it apart from the other trademark tools is the depth of the record underneath GleanMark. On clearance, it surfaces the conflicting marks thoroughly and gives me enough on each one to make my own call and sign off with confidence, instead of relying on a black-box ranking. On office action responses, it brings not just the arguments but the actual evidence behind them. And for day-to-day research, I can get a straight answer on any owner, any proceeding, or any single mark in seconds.”
— Jessica Fleetham, Trademark Attorney, Evia Law
For one attorney, GleanMark Professional is $249 a month and TM TKO’s SOLO plan is $280 a month. What each includes differs. Professional includes the deadline docket, USPTO Research, TTAB research (beta), client letters and automatic client emails, unlimited marks and watches, unlimited Markus, 25 knockout searches per user a month, 2 clearance reports per account a month and 3 office action drafts per user a month; extra clearance reports are $79 and extra drafts $49. TM TKO’s plans include unlimited searches and watches. For teams, GleanMark is priced per user ($249, or Max at $699 per user and $599 at three or more users, with unlimited knockouts and drafts); TM TKO publishes SMALL $560 (5 users), MEDIUM $1,120 (10 users) and LARGE $1,680 (15 users) a month, with annual plans at 10 times the monthly price. GleanMark also has a Free plan and Starter at $99 a month for one user (no docket or USPTO Research), billed monthly. Both sell a 24-hour day pass: $89 at GleanMark, $84 at TM TKO.
Yes. TM TKO’s site describes one-click §2(d) response drafting that looks for arguments under the key du Pont factors and supports them with registry examples and prosecution outcomes. GleanMark’s drafts answer every refusal and requirement in the office action, not just §2(d): each argument names the registrations it relies on, case citations are checked against cases the USPTO itself has cited, a before-you-file checklist lists the facts to confirm, and an Evidence tab shows what each search looked for and what the draft used. The quickest way to compare is a draft from each on the same office action.
Not in the same form. TM TKO’s site describes examiner details: your Examining Attorney’s allowance rates on an issue compared with the Law Office and the USPTO overall, plus recent successful responses for that issue and examiner. GleanMark does not chart examiner allowance rates. In USPTO Research you can filter real office actions by examiner, refusal type, class and outcome to read how the same examiner handled similar refusals, and each mark page on Professional shows its §2(d) citation history in both directions: what was cited against it, and what it has been cited against.
Yes, and it is one of their headline features. Their site describes unlimited watching with no extra cost per watch: confusion watches on new applications and publications, watches on particular applications and registrations, owner and attorney watches, a 2(d) citation watch and business-development watching, and since May 2026 domain names and pharmaceutical names. GleanMark includes unlimited watches on Professional, covering the US federal register, plus more than 30 alert types on your own marks: office actions, status changes, publication and registration, deadlines, TTAB filings, ownership changes and §2(d) citations of your marks. The Free plan monitors 3 marks.
Yes. Start a 7-day free trial of full Professional access with no credit card. After 7 days the account moves to the Free plan, which monitors 3 marks with no time limit, keeps unlimited USPTO search across 14M records, and includes 2 knockout searches a month. TM TKO’s site offers a free first month and an $84 24-hour day pass.
Easier than most software switches, because your trademark data lives at the USPTO, not inside TM TKO. Sign up, and the setup wizard finds the marks filed under your email in the USPTO record so you can claim them a whole owner at a time and turn on monitoring in the same flow, or paste a list of serial numbers to import in bulk. No export files, no data migration. Rebuild any saved watches you rely on, run the two side by side during the 7-day free trial, and keep whichever fits your practice.
They can. TM TKO reaches data GleanMark does not, as listed on their site: foreign and US state registers, business listings and pharmaceutical names, plus deadline tracking in foreign offices. GleanMark puts its effort into the work that follows a search: a written knockout assessment, a full clearance report, drafts that answer every issue in an office action, and client letters and status emails. A practice can keep TM TKO for breadth and use GleanMark to get the work product out the door.
Search 14M USPTO records free, then run a knockout and read the assessment it writes.
GleanMark is a research and drafting platform, not a law firm, and does not provide legal advice. TM TKO is a trademark of its owner; GleanMark is not affiliated with or endorsed by TM TKO. TM TKO information is from their public website and blog as of October 24, 2026; pricing and features may have changed. Spot an inaccuracy? press@gleanmark.com