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Flexible watch slots

Use slots in any mix across trademark filings, design patents, and domains.

Each watch begins at the source

Live today: USPTO trademark filings, read daily, U.S. design-patent grants, read weekly, and newly delegated domains, read daily from TLD zone files. These are scheduled source reads, not real-time claims about the whole internet.

What triage evaluates

The source determines the matching method. Trademark wordmarks use normalized text, phonetic, class, and explainable language signals. Design patents use a class/title prefilter followed by visual comparison. Domains use deterministic confusable, edit-distance, and phonetic signals.

• Record: what the public source actually says.
• Triage: why MarkSentry thinks it may be close.
• Your call: the decision you make without rewriting the evidence.

The applicable signals resolve to a severity and a readable rationale. An alert means "close enough that a human should look", not a legal conclusion and not a promise about an outcome.

Trademark timing, procedurally

Trademark Watch first alerts on a new application. If the USPTO later approves that application, publication in the Trademark Official Gazette begins an initial 30-day opposition period. The early application alert is context for investigation; it is not a claim that the opposition period has already started, or legal advice about what to do next.

What an alert contains

Every alert begins with the source identifier and source facts available for that watch, followed by the triage rationale and a place to record your decision. Supporting links remain references; nothing is invented to make an alert feel more urgent than the underlying record supports.

What isn't covered, yet

State trademark registries and common-law/unregistered use aren't read today: only the federal USPTO record. Not yet live: Marketplace Watch, Image Watch (web), and Likeness & Voice. Each has its current status and waitlist on the Coverage page.

How a watch earns “live”

A watch only becomes live after its source access, measured coverage, matching behavior, alert evidence, and end-to-end operation are validated. Until then, its page says in validation and accepts interest rather than payment. Design patents became the second live registry in August 2026: read weekly, triaged, and alerted with grant-date context. For a PGR-eligible patent, a petition generally must be filed no later than nine months after grant; counsel determines eligibility and next steps.