You can now share any filing with colleagues at your firm who have Stencil access. Shared filings are fully editable, so your team can collaborate directly instead of working from copies or email attachments.

Collaboration has been one of our most requested features from firms with multiple attorneys and paralegals working the same portfolio. More granular permissions (view-only access, sharing with non-Stencil users) are on our radar - let us know if that matters to your team.

See how collaboration in Stencil works here.

We've rebuilt how Stencil generates your goods & services - and every term it recommends now links straight to the evidence it came from. It's on by default under the new "Stencil 2.0 ID Generator" toggle when you start a new application.

Each recommended term links to the exact web page it was drawn from - click through to check the source before you accept it.

Recommended classes are grouped by filing priority (Core, Additional, and Alternate) with a short "why" for each, so you can see what's core vs. peripheral at a glance.

See estimated USPTO fees update as you build, accounting for the number of classes, custom-term fees, and excess-character fees.

Stencil 2.0 is on by default, but you can switch back to the classic generator anytime with the per-source toggle. And as always, review each recommendation before you file - your judgment is the final word.

As always, reach out to support@getstencil.ai with any questions or feedback - we'd love to hear how this fits into your workflow!

Finding the best specimen for your filing is now easier.

Until now, specimen results appeared as a single undifferentiated list - sometimes too many imperfect options to sort through, sometimes missing evidence of use that you'd still want to consider. Now, every specimen comes categorized and explained, making it easier for you to find the best specimen per class, while maintaining a record of all proofs of use.

Rather than hiding specimen options that did not fully meet all USPTO specimen requirements, we surface them with clear labels. A capture where the mark placement isn't ideal, the mark isn't an exact match, or commerce isn't explicitly shown (advertised but no Buy button) will still appear and will be tagged Low or Medium confidence with a justification explaining why. You get the full picture and make the final judgement.

As always, reach out to support@getstencil.ai with questions or feedback!

When you're collecting specimens or working a renewal, the Review + File drawer now has a new Use Analysis tab that lays out every good/service alongside its specimen evidence - this table can easily be exported to your clients for review.

For each entry you'll see:

- Selected (a specimen is attached), Evidence found (we surfaced a specimen but you haven't attached it yet), or Not found (no specimen yet)

- the source links backing each term

A few things you can do:

Use Analysis is available in the Specimen Collection and Renewal flows.

As always, reach out to support@getstencil.ai with any questions or feedback - we'd love to hear how this fits into your workflow!

Upload a logo or design, and Stencil will:

Check out how design marks work here!

As always, please let us know how we can make Stencil better - contact us at support@getstencil.ai at any time to get your questions answered or share feedback - help us shape what comes next!

We've combined the filing review experience into a single drawer and added a few quality-of-life improvements to the filing flow. See details below!

The two review buttons (Client Summary and Review) are now a single Review + File button. Everything you need for all filing types - filing details, client email, comparison view, and export options - lives in one drawer, organized by tabs.

You can now download all specimens at once or just the ones you've attached. No more downloading them one by one (although you can still download each specimen on its own). Look for "Download All Specimens" and "Download Attached Specimens" in the export menu.

For new applications and ID conversions, the primary action is now "Open in Trademark Center" - taking you straight to where you need to go when you're ready to file.

Stencil now syncs with the USPTO ID Manual at 2:00 AM ET - up from once a week.

The ID Manual changes more often than most people realize. The USPTO pushes, modifies, and deletes terms on a daily basis. A weekly sync meant Stencil could be recommending terms that were days out of date or had already been removed.

With daily syncing, every term suggestion in Stencil reflects the latest version of the ID Manual, so you can file with confidence that your IDs will be accepted. You'll see a notification in the bottom right corner of your screen to inform you when a change has been made.

As always, reach out to support@getstencil.ai for any questions!

Thank you to our early Filing Assistant users for your feedback! We released an update today with the following changes:

The Stencil USPTO Filing Assistant is now live in beta.

It takes the applications you've built in Stencil and auto-populates your goods/services entries and specimens directly into the USPTO Trademark Center - reducing what used to take 50+ clicks down to 2.

The assistant populates fields but never submits anything on your behalf. You can pause, go one-by-one, or cancel at any point.

For questions or support getting started, please reach out to support@getstencil.ai.