TM TKO now includes TTAB data! Just like with our Office Action research tools, thoroughness is the key – you aren’t just limited to final decisions. You can search through decisions, rulings, pleadings, motions, and more to hone in on strategies and arguments that have worked for others in situations similar to the one your client faces. You can now do vastly more complex research than the TTAB’s Reading Room decision-only search options allow.

TTAB proceeding research

Track down proceedings that fit a fact pattern. It’s simple to find oppositions or cancellation actions where both parties’ marks include the term GREEN, or to find where a senior party making soda opposes an application for beer (representative sample shown below), or to identify strategic patterns in highly litigious counterparties.

TTAB document research

Find specific models to assist your drafting process and meet your needs. You can be done with adapting general model documents — it is now simple to find prior motions or briefs that address your key issue with TM TKO. You can do better, more efficient work.

For example, if you’re searching for arguments about a “repeated letter,” you can track down similar arguments in seconds.

Appeal research

Find briefs that have been effective on your specific issue, or free-text search to find how other lawyers are effectively citing to a specific case or building a particular style of argument. For example, you can search for appeal decisions relating to “failure to function” refusals, and then sort by precedential decisions.

Clearance

Clearance reports now embed valuable opposition, cancellation, and appeal data. You can now identify aggressive potential opposers without further research. Where applicable, you will see a “Proceedings” line in the Mark field of your manual or automated search results, as below.

Click in to quickly see more details about the proceeding in question via a popup. If you need to dig further, just click on the link to the proceeding number to go to the full details page.

Get researching!

Try it today! We’d love to hear what you think, and when you have been able to make use of the new TTAB research tools to improve your client outcomes. And, of course, make sure to mention this to your litigation-focused colleagues who may not have used TM TKO before.