GleanMark monitors the USPTO twice daily and alerts you when something changes — a status update on your mark, a new filing by a competitor, a TTAB proceeding, or an approaching deadline. With alert categories spanning portfolio marks and tracked owners, you get comprehensive coverage without manual TSDR checks.
What You Can Do
Monitor your own trademarks for status changes, prosecution events, and deadlines
Track competitors and watch for new filings, assignments, and TTAB activity
Receive deadline reminders at 30 days, 7 days, and 1 day before due dates
Set up keyword watch searches that fire when new matching filings appear (Professional and Max plans)
Customize which alert categories you receive
How It Works
Add marks to a portfolio — Navigate to Portfolios in the sidebar and create a portfolio. Add trademarks by serial number. Every mark in a portfolio is automatically monitored.
Track owners — Go to Owners in the sidebar, open an owner, and click “Start Tracking.” GleanMark monitors all their current and future filings.
Configure settings — Go to Settings > Alert Settings (
/settings/alerts) to control which alert categories are active and how they’re delivered.Receive alerts — GleanMark checks the USPTO twice daily (morning and afternoon, US Eastern time) and sends email notifications for any changes detected.
Alert Types
Portfolio Mark Alerts (monitoring your trademarks)
Status & Prosecution
Status change — Registration status changes (e.g., Published for Opposition, Registered)
Prosecution events — New office actions, examiner amendments, responses filed
ITU transition — Intent-to-use application files a Statement of Use or amendment
Milestones
Publication — Mark published in the Official Gazette for opposition
Registration — Mark officially registered
Renewal — Section 8/9 renewal filed
Cancellation — Mark cancelled
Abandonment — Application or registration abandoned
International registration — Madrid Protocol designation accepted
Ownership Changes
Assignment — Ownership transferred to a new entity
Correspondent changed — Attorney/correspondent of record changed
Reclassifications
Goods/services changed — Amendments to the goods and services description
Classification changed — Nice class modifications
Design search codes changed — Updates to design code assignments
TTAB Proceedings
TTAB proceeding initiated — New opposition or cancellation proceeding filed involving your mark
TTAB status change — Status update on an existing proceeding (suspended, resumed, decided)
TTAB prosecution entry — New document or filing in a proceeding
Deadlines & Renewals
30-day deadline — Upcoming deadline in 30 days
7-day deadline — Upcoming deadline in 7 days
Tomorrow deadline — Deadline is tomorrow
Tracked Owner Alerts (monitoring competitors)
New application — Owner files a new trademark application
Assignment — Owner acquires or transfers a mark
Info change — Owner entity name or address changes
Citation alerts — When an examiner cites one of the owner’s marks as a Section 2(d) bar to another application
Publication — One of the owner’s marks published for opposition
Registration — Owner’s mark registered
Renewal — Owner’s mark renewed
Cancellation — Owner’s mark cancelled
Abandonment — Owner’s application/registration abandoned
International registration — Owner’s Madrid Protocol mark registered
TTAB proceeding — Owner is named in a new opposition or cancellation proceeding
TTAB status change — Status update on a proceeding involving the owner
Watch Searches (keyword-based monitoring)
Watch searches let you save a keyword query and get alerted when new filings match. For example, watch for any new trademark containing “SOLAR” in Class 9.
Watch alerts fire on five event types: new filing, publication, registration, abandonment, and cancellation.
Watch searches are available on Professional and Max plans.
Configuring Alert Settings
Navigate to Settings > Alert Settings (/settings/alerts) to customize your alerts. Settings are organized into tabs:
Portfolios
Control alerts for your portfolio trademarks. Alerts are grouped into categories — Prosecution, Milestones, Reclassifications, Deadlines & Renewals, TTAB Proceedings, and Ownership Changes — that you toggle on or off. You can also override these per portfolio.
Owners
Configure tracked owner alerts. Each tracked owner has an Active toggle and an Alerts toggle, plus category checkboxes (New Applications, Assignments, Owner Info, Portfolio Events, TTAB Activity, Citations). New owners inherit your account defaults until you customize them.
Automated Watches
Manage watch coverage that GleanMark sets up for you, with a digest of recent matches.
Custom Watches
Create and edit your own keyword watch searches and control their notification settings.
Slack
Connect a Slack workspace to receive alerts in designated channels.
Client Notifications
For firms, configure client-facing notification emails.
Tips & Best Practices
Start with all categories on — You can always mute specific categories later. It’s better to see too much initially than to miss something important.
Use tracked owners for competitors — Don’t just monitor your own marks. Track your top competitors to catch new filings early.
Pay attention to citation alerts on tracked owners — If a competitor’s mark is cited as a Section 2(d) bar, it signals examiner-level concern about confusion with similar marks.
Use watch searches to catch new filings that resemble your marks — Save a keyword query so you’re alerted when matching applications appear, even if the applicant doesn’t know your mark exists.
Check deadlines regularly — The 30/7/1 day cascade ensures you won’t miss a deadline, but review the Alerts page (
/alerts) to see everything in one place.
What’s Included in Each Plan
Feature | Starter | Professional | Max |
Portfolio mark alerts | All categories | All categories | All categories |
Tracked owner alerts | All categories | All categories | All categories |
Watch search alerts | Not included | Included | Included |
Monitoring frequency | 2x daily | 2x daily | 2x daily |
Related Features
Tracking Owners & Competitors — How to add and manage tracked owners
Knockout Search — Proactive search before conflicts arise
Markus AI — Ask Markus “What alerts fired this week?”