Trademark monitoring
Registration is the start of the work, not the end of it. Qevatrix Trademark OS watches USPTO records continuously so a conflicting application or a case status change reaches you while there is still time to act.
What monitoring covers
New filings that resemble your marks
Your marks are re-screened against the ingested USPTO index, so applications filed after you registered still surface. Matching goes beyond exact strings: phonetic variants, dominant-word overlap and fuzzy spellings are all included, because those are the filings that actually threaten a mark.
Status changes on the marks you docket
Marks in your portfolio are checked against USPTO's status service. When a case moves — published for opposition, allowed, registered, abandoned, office action issued — the change lands on the mark's timeline instead of sitting in a government database you have to remember to check.
New case documents
Newly issued documents on your cases are pulled in and viewable in place: office actions, notices of allowance, registration certificates. Office actions are read automatically so each refusal ground is identified before you open the file.
Competitor applications on your watchlist
Add any application to the watchlist to follow it specifically. You are alerted when its monitoring status changes or when its risk assessment moves after a new clearance run.
How risk alerts are scored
Monitoring does not just tell you that something was filed — it tells you how much it matters. Each hit gets a Conflict Score built factor by factor:
- Similarity between the marks, including phonetic and dominant-word similarity
- Overlap in the goods and services actually claimed
- Relatedness of the Nice classes involved
- Strength of the cited registration
Alert severity scales with that score, so a near-identical filing in your own class reads differently from a distant match you can dismiss in a second. The score is a triage tool for a result list, not a legal opinion on likelihood of confusion.
What happens when something changes
Every member of your organization who should see the change gets an in-app alert. From there the response paths are already built: open the clearance report to see the factor-by-factor breakdown, add the filing to your watchlist to follow it, or — if the change is an office action on your own case — move straight into the response builder, where each refusal ground has a suggested strategy and your exhibits attach to the draft.
Deadlines flowing from a status change are calculated too: three months to respond to an office action, six months to file a statement of use, the Section 8 window, Section 15 eligibility and Section 9 renewals, grace periods included.
Where the data comes from
Public United States Patent and Trademark Office records. The searchable index is built from USPTO's public data services, and live case status and documents come from USPTO's own status and document system. There is no curated sample standing in for the federal register.
Monitoring output is informational. Always confirm status and dates against the official USPTO record — Qevatrix Trademark OS is software, not a law firm, and does not provide legal advice or representation.
Start monitoring your marks
Add your marks to a portfolio, screen them once, and monitoring runs from there. Common questions are answered in the FAQ.