USPTO Trademark Watch: new filings & opposition alerts for your marks

Schedule this Actor daily or weekly on Apify and get alerts on new US trademark filings and marks published for opposition that match your terms, within a lookback window (default 7 days) of a snapshot of live (pending and registered) US federal trademarks built from official USPTO bulk data. $0.02 per term checked, no start fee. A record-matching alert, not legal advice, not a clearance and not a complete watch. The index is refreshed daily from new USPTO filings.

Use cases

• Watch your own marks (and misspellings of them) for new conflicting filings
• Catch marks published for opposition in your space and find out before the opposition deadline window closes
• Monitor a set of candidate brand names you may file, on a schedule
• Pair with the USPTO Trademark Lookup Actor: lookup for one-off screening, watch for ongoing monitoring

How it works

Each run looks back lookbackDays days (default 7, max 90) and finds marks whose filing date or last status date falls in the window. Every watch term is matched against only those recent rows, so a run is fast and cheap no matter how many terms you watch. If a mark is currently published for opposition (USPTO status 686), the match is flagged with publishedForOpposition: true — those are the ones with a real deadline.

Match types

• exact (default) — the mark is identical to your term (case- and punctuation-insensitive, e.g. "Gold Core" matches "GOLD-CORE").
• words (default) — every word of your term appears in the mark, in any order.
• similar (default) — near-spellings of your term: the whole mark (spaces ignored) is 1 character edit away (2 for terms of 9+ letters), or each word of your term appears in a mark of similar length with at most a one-letter difference in words of 5+ letters. Catches variants like "Gold Core" → "GOLDKORE" / "GOLD CORRE" and "Vibes" → "VIBEZ". Terms shorter than 5 letters get exact and word matches only (one-letter variants of short words are mostly unrelated marks).

Disable the ones you don't want in matchTypes. A mark is reported once, under the strongest match type it hits (exact > words > similar).

What you get (one dataset item per term)

term, status (ok or invalid_input), lookbackDays, since (the window start date), matchCount, matchesCapped, and matches[] — each match has serial, mark, matchType, statusCode, statusCategory, statusDescription, publishedForOpposition, filedDate, statusDate, classes[], and a tsdrUrl deep link to the official USPTO TSDR status page. Every item also carries indexSnapshot (the snapshot date) and the disclaimer text.

Pricing: pay per term checked

One event per term checked successfully (status: ok, $0.02), even with zero matches — you paid for the check, not for the hits. Invalid terms are not charged, and there is no start fee. The run checks your spending limit before each term and stops cleanly if it is reached.

Limits

• Default memory is 2 GB, enough for the maximum 90-day lookback (a 90-day window holds ~760,000 recent filings). Short lookbacks (7-30 days) also run at 1 GB.

• Max 200 terms per run (duplicates removed); up to 200 matches returned per term (matchesCapped: true when cut off).

• Lookback window 1-90 days. Schedule at least as often as the window, or older activity is only covered if its status changed recently.

• Data is a snapshot of the USPTO bulk files, not a live API; the snapshot date is in every result.

Not legal advice

This is a record-matching alert, not legal advice, not a trademark clearance, and not a complete watch. It only sees live federal marks in the USPTO bulk data: state-law marks, common-law rights, dead (abandoned/expired/cancelled) marks and foreign marks are not included, and the similar matcher is a spelling-distance heuristic, not a likelihood-of-confusion analysis — phonetic or conceptual lookalikes can be missed, and a mark filed and then abandoned inside the window may still surface. Consult a trademark attorney before acting on anything here, e.g. on opposition deadlines.

FAQ

Which marks are included? Live (pending and registered) US federal trademarks from official USPTO bulk data.

How fresh is the data? The index is refreshed daily; the snapshot date (indexSnapshot) is in every result.

What does it cost? $0.02 per term checked successfully (even with zero matches), no start fee; invalid terms are not charged.

Is this legal advice? No. See the section above.

Input example

{
  "watchTerms": ["gold core", "just do it"],
  "classes": ["25"],
  "lookbackDays": 7,
  "matchTypes": ["exact", "words", "similar"]
}