DESIGN PATENT WATCH · LIVE · USPTO WEEKLY
Your design.
Spot the look-alikes.
Register a product design. MarkSentry checks new U.S. design-patent grants every week and emails high- or moderate-severity candidates with the drawing, grant facts, visual rationale, and timing context.
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How a candidate is judged
A newly granted design that survives the class-and-title pre-filter is put beside the image you registered and judged visually. The plate below shows that comparison as a pair of drawings. The drawings and metadata are illustrative, not a real grant; a real alert fills those facts from the grant record.
ILLUSTRATIVE COMPARISON · NOT A REAL GRANTVISUAL TRIAGE
- US D000,000 S
- Granted 2026-08-11
- PGR eligibility requires counsel review
ILLUSTRATIVE DESIGN PAIR · not a real grant
Changed headband yoke · ringed in red for explanation; a real alert links to the USPTO drawing.
FROM GRANT TO REVIEW
The drawing, the reason, and the timing.
01Read weekly
New U.S. design grants enter the watch when the weekly issue publishes.
02Compare visually
Each surviving candidate is judged against exactly the image you registered.
03Keep context
The drawing, grant date, rationale, and timing stay attached.
What a watched design gets
You register a product image and a short label; each week's newly granted design patents are pre-filtered by class and title, and the surviving candidates are judged visually against exactly what you registered; nothing is inferred. High- and moderate-severity matches alert you by email with the patent number, the grant date, and a nine-month PGR timing marker. That marker does not determine eligibility; counsel should assess whether PGR is available and what deadline applies.
Who it's for
- A physical-product brand whose registered designs are the product (housings, packaging, furniture, footwear) and who wants to know the week a look-alike design patent grants.
- A hardware or consumer-goods founder with one or two registered designs and nobody in-house reading the weekly gazette.
- A design-side practitioner watching a handful of client designs who wants the drawing, the grant date, and the window, not a portal.
COVERAGE & PROOFCoverage, timing rules, and operating record
Flags look-alike design patents the week they grant: early warning for your registered designs while time-limited post-grant options may still be available.
Conventional domestic design applications generally are not published before grant, while Hague-route designs may publish earlier. MarkSentry's live watch reads the weekly U.S. grant issue. For an eligible patent, a Post-Grant Review petition generally must be filed within 9 months after grant; counsel should assess eligibility and next steps.
Everything included
- Weekly read of the USPTO design-patent grant issue
- Class and title pre-filter before any visual judgment
- Visual triage against your registered image: exactly what you registered, nothing inferred
- Alert email with the patent number, grant date, and a nine-month PGR timing marker for counsel
- The grant's drawing as a reference link
- A DRAFT next-step paragraph in every alert (not legal advice)
- Dashboard evidence: RECORD / TRIAGE / YOUR CALL
- Stop or resume watching any time
- The USPTO examiner's record for each new design alert: the rejections the patent faced and the design patents named in the examiner's rejection letters, read from USPTO's public file history
What runs today
The weekly grant-issue reader, visual triage, dashboard registration, and alerting are live in production.
How it went live
Before this page said "live", the deployed system had to prove it: the daily run ingested a real weekly grant issue (week 32, 2026-08-11, 769 design patents, a 1:1 count against the published gazette) and three grants were hand-checked against the live issue on number, title, and class.
On a registered test design, MarkSentry reviewed three candidates and delivered one real moderate-severity alert. Its patent number, grant date, drawing link, and PGR countdown were checked against the stored USPTO grant record; plan enrollment, design registration, and alert delivery were then verified end to end. The dated launch and coverage record is published in the customer changelog.
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FAQ
How is a design patent different from a trademark?
A trademark identifies the source of goods or services (a word, a logo) and can last as long as it stays in use. A U.S. design patent protects the ornamental appearance of an article for a fixed term, examined and granted by the USPTO. The Trademark Watch reads new applications from daily USPTO filing data; this watch reads design patents from the weekly grant issue: a different source with a different clock.
What is the 9-month Post-Grant Review window?
For an eligible patent, Post-Grant Review is a USPTO proceeding that can challenge one or more claims on specified patentability grounds, and a petition generally must be filed no later than 9 months after grant. Conventional domestic design applications generally are not published before grant, while Hague international design registrations can publish earlier. MarkSentry reads the weekly U.S. grant issue and shows timing from the real grant date; it does not determine eligibility or recommend a legal step.
What image should I register?
One clear image of the design as it appears (a product photo or the drawing itself, showing the view a look-alike would copy) plus a short product label; USPC or Locarno classes are optional and tighten the pre-filter. JPEG, PNG, GIF or WebP up to 250 KB; the form downsizes larger photos to 1024 px on the longest edge before upload. Newly granted designs are judged against exactly that image, so nothing is inferred beyond it.
MarkSentry provides monitoring and triage, not legal advice. Utility patents and non-U.S. design registrations are not watched today.