Your trademarks, watched every single day.
Nightly similarity scoring of every new USPTO filing, plain-English status monitoring, and a self-computing deadline calendar. Everything enterprise watch does, from $49 a month.
FREE · NO SIGNUP · INSTANT RISK READ
The watching gap is real, and it's expensive either way.
is where enterprise watch services start. They don't return small-firm phone calls.
applications hit the USPTO every year. Any one of them could be confusingly close to yours.
for a blown Section 8 or renewal window. Missed deadlines kill registrations outright.
Trademark monitoring software, priced for the rest of us.
Thorgate is a trademark monitoring service that reads the US register for you. Every night it scores new USPTO filings against your marks, so you catch a conflict the week it's filed — not the year you stumble on it. It brings everyday trademark monitoring together with focused trademark infringement monitoring, plain-English status tracking, and automatic deadline docketing, all in one place.
A trademark monitoring service
Fully managed and automatic. You add your marks; Thorgate watches the register nightly and alerts you by morning when something similar is filed.
Trademark monitoring software
Real similarity scoring on spelling, sound, words, and class — not the exact-match checks cheaper tools rely on — with severity thresholds you tune.
Infringement monitoring, built in
Detect likely infringers, capture the evidence, and turn a finding into a cease-and-desist draft — the enforcement half most watch services skip.
Register your marks once. Thorgate never stops reading the register.
Add your marks
Enter a mark or a serial number. Thorgate pulls the full USPTO record and immediately surfaces every similar live mark already on the register.
Scored every night
Every new application is scored against your marks on spelling, sound, tokens, and class. High-severity matches alert by morning; weaker ones wait quietly in your digest.
Deadlines handled
Office actions, oppositions, Section 8 windows, renewals, computed from your actual record, with reminders at 60, 30, 14, 7, and 1 day out. Nothing expires quietly.
Value on day one, not day ninety. The moment you add a mark you get a full retroactive sweep of the live register, the complete status timeline, and a computed deadline calendar, no waiting for a live event.
Everything enterprise watch does, and the parts it skips.
Three core jobs, run nightly against the full US register.
Similar-filing alerts
Every new USPTO application is scored against your marks, not just exact matches. One composite score, four signals.
- ▪Spelling & sound. Levenshtein / Jaro-Winkler plus Double-Metaphone phonetics catch “Kwikset” vs “Quickset.”
- ▪Tokens & class. Shared distinctive tokens weighted by class proximity, exact class beats coordinated beats unrelated.
- ▪Severity bands, tunable. High-confidence conflicts alert immediately; borderline matches wait in the digest. Thresholds are yours.
Status, in plain English
For every mark you own, Thorgate polls USPTO status and explains each transition, and the action window it opens.
- ▪Every transition. Office action, published for opposition, opposition filed, notice of allowance, registered, cancelled, abandoned.
- ▪Explained, not just flagged. What the event means and what you have to do next, in a sentence, not a status code.
- ▪Silence reads as diligence. Every digest confirms what was watched, even in a quiet week.
Deadlines that remind you
Statutory windows computed from your record, encoded as rules, so a USPTO change is a config edit, not a missed date.
- ▪Every window. Office-action responses, opposition periods, Statements of Use, Section 8 (yrs 5–6), Section 9 renewals.
- ▪Reminder ladder. 60 / 30 / 14 / 7 / 1 days out, and 14 / 7 / 3 / 1 on a short opposition window.
- ▪Exportable. Push any deadline to your calendar with a one-click .ics.
The watch is only useful if it fits how you work.
Findings you can triage once, deadlines that live in your own calendar, and a digest that reports even the quiet weeks.
Triage that sticks
Dismiss a finding and it stays dismissed. Escalate the ones that matter. Rescoring never resurfaces a call you already made.
Deadlines in your calendar
Subscribe to a private ICS feed and every computed window, Section 8, renewal, office-action response, appears in Google Calendar, Outlook, or Apple Calendar.
Digests that prove diligence
A weekly summary of what was watched and what was found, delivered even when nothing happened. Silence you can forward to a client.
Watch services bill your clients $200–800 per mark. You can do better.
Thorgate Professional covers 25 marks for $199/mo, about $8 a mark. Resell monitoring under your own letterhead and turn watching into a margin line, not a pass-through cost.
- ▪Import by serial number. Pre-built watch lists with retroactive matches on day one.
- ▪Docketing that isn't a spreadsheet. Every statutory window across every client mark, in one calendar.
- ▪Reports clients actually read. Branded monthly summaries that justify the retainer.
Check before you file. Or before you panic.
The same scoring and status engine that powers monitoring, open to anyone.
Conflict search
Enter a name and see similar live marks with a plain-English risk read before you file.
Open →Is it trademarked?
An instant knockout check for any brand name against the live US register.
Open →Class suggester
Describe your goods or services and get the Nice classes you should be filing in.
Open →Status lookup
Plain-English status and computed deadlines for any serial or registration number.
Open →Priced by marks watched. Nothing withheld.
Every plan monitors nightly. You pay for how much you watch, not for which alerts you're allowed to see.
- ▪Nightly USPTO similarity watch
- ▪Own-mark status monitoring
- ▪Deadline docketing & reminders
- ▪Retroactive report the moment you add a mark
- ▪Everything in Brand
- ▪12 marks watched every night
- ▪Deadline calendar feed (ICS) for every mark
- ▪Up to 2 seats
- ▪Everything in Brand
- ▪25 marks watched every night
- ▪Deadline calendar feed (ICS) for every mark
- ▪Up to 3 seats
- ▪Everything in Professional
- ▪100 marks watched every night
- ▪Up to 10 seats with role-based access
- ▪Priority support
14-day trial on every plan · 2 months free on annual billing · Cancel anytime.
Serious coverage, without the enterprise bill.
Deep coverage, $5K+/yr, annual contracts, built for in-house counsel. Overkill, and overpriced, for 1–100 marks.
Serious trademark monitoring plus docketing and evidence capture the consumer tools skip, at a tenth of enterprise pricing.
Exact-match USPTO checks with weak similarity logic, no docketing, no evidence capture. Cheap, but misses what matters.
The short answers.
No, Thorgate monitors and dockets. It tells you what happened and what's due; what to do about it is between you and your attorney. Every deadline carries its statutory citation.
Add a mark and instantly see every similar live mark on the register, the full status timeline, and your computed deadline calendar, no waiting for a live event.
No. Matches are graded by severity, only high-confidence conflicts alert immediately, borderline ones wait in the digest, and thresholds are yours to tune.
Every mark has a private deadline calendar feed you can subscribe to, and digests are email you can forward. Branded client reports and a data API are on the roadmap, not shipped.
Thorgate covers the US federal register (USPTO), including TTAB proceedings and assignment records. It is built specifically for the US register, so the scoring and docketing go deep rather than spread thin across jurisdictions.
New USPTO filing data is ingested and scored every night. High-severity matches are in your inbox the next morning.
Start reading the register tonight.
Add your marks in minutes and get an instant retroactive report across all 3.9M live marks, live status, and every computed deadline.