Both cover search, watch, docketing, TTAB and office actions. TM TKO is a wide data toolbox. GleanMark tells you what the data means — risk ratings, source-linked drafts, clearance memos and an AI assistant you can just talk to. From $99 a month, next to $280.
Grouped by the job you are doing. Competitor information is based on publicly available materials, August 2026. Last updated 20 August 2026.
| Feature | GM GleanMark | TM TKO |
|---|---|---|
| Search & clearance | ||
| Knockout search | Available today. Four risk tiers, a "why" per hit, written assessment | Available today. One ranked list with analysis charts1 |
| Clearance memo with a verdict | Available today. AI-written memo ending in a recommendation | Not offered. Not offered1 |
| Goods & services finder | Available today. Filterable ID Manual entries with usage counts, TM5 flags, Term IDs | Available today. Auto-suggest picker of identifications1 |
| Prosecution & drafting | ||
| AI assistant, in plain English | Available today. Ask a question, get a cited answer — in the app and inside ChatGPT or Claude | Not offered. Not offered1 |
| Office action response drafts | Available today. Cites the marks and pairs it relies on; claims-to-verify checklist | Available today. 2(d) response drafts1 |
| Office action research database | Available today. Our own corpus, wired into the drafting stack | Available today. Larger tagged corpus — 11M+ documents1,2 |
| Client letters & reminders | Not switched on yet. In private beta — firm-editable templates | Available today. Demand-letter generator, addressed from USPTO data1 |
| Evidence scorecard on drafts | Available today. Every lane: searched, what came back, what was used | Available today. Evidence-and-arguments scorecard by du Pont factor1 |
| Monitoring & docketing | ||
| Watch alerts | Available today. 35 alert types, delivered by email | Available today. 10 watch types, sold as unlimited1 |
| Docketing | Available today. Workspace docket: calendar, tasks, team, TTAB | Available today. Deadline tab on each record1 |
| Record version history | Not offered. Not offered | Available today. 23 dated versions with a word-level diff1 |
| Bulk official USPTO status copies | Available today. One click from a portfolio, mark page or draft — fingerprint-verified, merged PDF plus ZIP | Available today. Paste serials, get a combined PDF plus a ZIP1 |
| Data & reach | ||
| Registers covered | Available today. US federal, plus Madrid designations into the US | Listed by vendor. US plus foreign registers2 |
| Business listings & pharmaceutical names | Not offered. Not offered | Listed by vendor. US business listings, domains, substance names2 |
| TTAB intelligence | Available today. 650K+ proceedings, with an AI summary on any of them | Available today. Proceeding search by party, mark or document1 |
| Who it's for | ||
| Trademark professionals | Available today. Solos, firms, paralegals | Available today. Solos, firms, paralegals1 |
| In-house counsel | Available today. Team workspace, shared docket and alerts | Available today. Firm seats and client portfolios1 |
| Brand owners & founders | Available today. Self-serve signup; the free tier monitors 3 marks | Not offered. Positioned for trademark professionals1 |
| Pricing | ||
| Plans start at | $99/month | $280/month1 |
| Day pass | $79 (24 hours) | $84 (24 hours)1 |
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Data & reach
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If you file internationally, TM TKO's multi-register coverage is a real advantage and we'd tell you so. If your risk is US-first, depth in the US register — where we invest — matters more than breadth across registers.
Deduplicated across all search methods
Examiner-style search methods. One query. Results in seconds.
Four differences, with the numbers behind them
On the same test name, both tools surface the same top conflict. What GleanMark adds is everything around it: the whole field ranked into four risk tiers, a plain-English reason each mark surfaced, a written risk assessment with a crowded-field test and a family-of-marks warning, and every search step the engine ran, with the hit count for each. Export it as PDF, Word or Excel.
Illustrative view of the tiered results screen.
Our office action drafts name the third-party registrations and coexisting pairs each argument leans on, and put the judgment calls and missing facts into a claims-to-verify checklist beside the draft.
An Evidence tab lists every lane the draft searched, what came back, and what it used.
A clearance report is $79 and reads like something you can send: the conflicting registrations, a du Pont read on the closest of them, domain and web presence, and a recommendation at the end rather than a chart to interpret.
Two reports included per account each month on Professional.
Markus is GleanMark's assistant. Ask who owns a portfolio, what happened on a file, or what is due next, and the answer comes back with the records it read. One question about four serial numbers came back in 17 seconds as a single table — mark, owner, status, attorney and the computed next deadline for each, including a final-refusal response due 12 November 2026 and a statement-of-use deadline due 7 January 2027, both matching the USPTO record.
It also runs outside our app: connect GleanMark to ChatGPT or Claude and ask the same questions there.
“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
GleanMark has a free tier, then Starter at $99/month, Professional at $249 per seat/month and Max at $699 per seat/month ($599 per seat at three or more seats), all billed monthly. Clearance reports are $79 each beyond the ones your plan includes, and a 24-hour day pass is $79. TM TKO publishes SOLO $280 (1 user), SMALL $560 (5 users), MEDIUM $1,120 (10 users) and LARGE $1,680 (15 users) per month, with annual billed at 10× the monthly rate, unlimited searches and watches, a free first month and an $84 24-hour day pass.
Their site lists §2(d) response drafts and a demand-letter generator. GleanMark's drafts are built to be filed from: they cite the marks and coexistence pairs each argument relies on by serial or registration number, run every case citation through an integrity check, carry a claims-to-verify checklist for the judgment calls, and show every evidence lane the pipeline searched alongside what it found. Compare a draft from each on the same office action — that is the fastest way to see the difference.
The two are shaped differently. TM TKO benchmarks each office action: accepted-versus-rejected charts by year for the examiner, the law office, all examiners, the attorney of record, the firm and the owner, plus precedent tables of similar acceptances. GleanMark does not have examiner profile pages. What it has is a §2(d) citation graph on every mark — what was cited against it and what it has since been cited against — and an office action research corpus wired directly into drafting.
Yes, and it is one of their headline features. Their watch setup lists 10 types, including word mark, design mark, trademark, office action, application, owner, attorney, domain name and substance, with a rule builder over record attributes, sold as unlimited inside each seat block. GleanMark monitors 3 marks on the free tier and layers 35 alert types across the full trademark lifecycle, with unlimited monitoring on Professional.
Yes. Start a 7-day free trial of full Professional access with no credit card. After 7 days the account reverts to the Free plan, which monitors 3 marks with no time limit and keeps unlimited USPTO search across 14M records. TM TKO 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 on the 7-day free trial, and cancel whichever you are not using. Your history with us starts accruing from day one; nothing you had at the USPTO is lost.
They can. TM TKO reaches data we do not — foreign registers, business listings, domain records and pharmaceutical names as listed on their site. GleanMark answers the question the data raises: tiered knockout risk with a written assessment, source-linked office action drafts, a workspace docket, and an assistant you can ask in plain English. A practice can keep TM TKO for the breadth and use GleanMark for the answer.
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. Competitor information is based on publicly available materials as of August 2026 — pricing and features may have changed. Spot an inaccuracy? press@gleanmark.com