USPTO Trademark Watch: New Filings for Your Brand

What is the USPTO Trademark Watch?

It is an Apify Actor that monitors new US trademark filings for the names and slogans you care about. Find out when someone files a US trademark that matches your brand, product name or slogan. Schedule this Actor to run daily or weekly and each run reports only the filings it has not told you about before.

Built for small brands, print-on-demand sellers, agencies and founders who want an early warning. Trademark opposition windows are short, and the earlier you see a conflicting filing, the more options you have.

What you get

For every new filing: the watched term, severity, the filed wording, how it relates to your term, status, whether it is registered or pending, owner, serial and registration numbers, classes, filing date, a goods description, and a link to the USPTO record.

Severity	Meaning
HIGH	The filed wording is identical to your term.
MEDIUM	The filed mark contains your term, or sits inside it (two or more words).

How to monitor new trademark filings for your brand

1. Enter the brand names or phrases to watch.
2. Choose the classes you care about, or leave them empty to watch every class.
3. Run it once to see the last few months of filings.
4. Create a Schedule (daily or weekly) and connect the output to email, Slack, Make, n8n or Zapier.

How it works

• Add the brand names or phrases you want to watch and, optionally, the classes you care about (25 for clothing, 9 for software, 35 for retail services and so on). Leave classes empty to watch every class.
• The first run looks back as many days as you choose (default 90) so you see what has been filed recently.
• Every later run reports only marks it has not reported before, per term and class selection. USPTO can take several days to load a filing, so each run also re-checks the week before the previous run.
• Schedule it in Apify (Schedules) and connect the output to email, Slack, Make, n8n or Zapier with a webhook.

Input

{
    "terms": ["dog mom", "my brand name"],
    "classes": ["25", "21"],
    "lookbackDays": 365,
    "onlyNew": true
}

How much does trademark monitoring cost?

You pay per watched term per run, plus a small charge for each new filing reported. A quiet week costs only the term checks.

Setup	Approximate cost
1 term, weekly	about $0.09 a month before any filings
5 terms, daily	about $3 a month before any filings
Each new filing reported	$0.02

Paid Apify plans get tiered discounts, and you can set a maximum cost per run. You can try it on Apify's free plan without a card.

Frequently asked questions

How soon do I see a new filing? USPTO can take several days to load a filing, so each run also re-checks the week before the previous run. Nothing is reported twice.

Why did my first run return so many results? The first run looks back as many days as you set (default 90). Later runs report only new filings.

What is the difference between HIGH and MEDIUM? HIGH means the filed wording is identical to your term. MEDIUM means it contains your term or sits inside it.

Read this

• This is a monitoring aid, not legal advice. It does not tell you whether a filing infringes your rights or what to do about it. Ask a trademark attorney.
• It covers live US federal applications and registrations only. It does not cover state marks, other countries, or look-alike wording such as misspellings and sound-alikes.
• Only filings that overlap your term as whole words are reported, so a brand that is a single common word can match a lot.
• Data comes from the public USPTO trademark search. If USPTO changes its response format the run fails with an error instead of returning empty results, and the Actor is health-checked every night.