ID Conversion turns your client’s existing identification into USPTO ID Manual terms, one input term at a time. On a long list it’s easy to lose your track: which terms have you already checked, and which still need a look? Now you can mark each input term as reviewed and see at a glance what’s left.

Each input term card has a check button in its header. When you’re happy with the matches for that term, click it. The check turns green, and hovering over it shows who reviewed the term and when. Click it again to undo.

Turn on Needs review only, next to the match filters, to hide the terms you’ve already reviewed. A progress bar shows how many you’ve reviewed so far. Mark a term reviewed in this view and it moves out of the list, with an Undo in case you clicked too soon. Once everything is reviewed, Stencil tells you so.

Reviews are saved with the filing, so they’re still there when you come back. Anyone you’ve shared the filing with sees which terms are done and who reviewed them.

Marking a term reviewed doesn’t change your filing or what you can do with it. It’s there to help you keep track, not a step you have to finish before you file.

Reviewed is available now in ID Conversion. Open any ID Conversion filing and you’ll see the check on every input term card.

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Stencil can now search the open web for specimens. Add a new source to an application, and the specimen hunt looks beyond the applicant's own website and the usual marketplaces. It can surface use of the mark on pages such as distributor sites, booking platforms, social profiles, event pages or the applicant's other domains.

Until now, the specimen hunt checked only the owner's site and brand-scoped marketplaces. Services classes got only image results. Good specimens on third-party or secondary sites were never found. Web search closes that gap, so you get more options to choose from, especially for services. Third-party pages stay out of your research and ID drafting unless you choose to add them.

Web search of specimens is will be available to everyone!

Your clients don't always have a website that describes what they sell. Often the best description is a catalog, brochure, price list or product sheet sitting in your inbox. Now you can upload that document straight into Stencil. Stencil reads it, drafts goods and services from it, and finds specimens inside it, with no copying and pasting.

In any filing, click Add source and choose Business document. You can upload a PDF, JPEG or PNG of up to 200 MB. We check every file for malware before Stencil opens it.

Stencil reads every page, including scans and photos. The document card shows each step as it happens. Once it says Ready, you can open the text Stencil read and check it yourself.

Stencil drafts IDs from the document, just as it does from a website or a business description. Every ID links back to the page that supports it, so you always know where a suggestion came from.

On the Specimens tab, start a search and Stencil checks each page for the mark in use. Only pages that pass make it into your results, graded the same way as website specimens. Each one is labelled with its page number, so it's easy to find in the original.

Business document upload is available now. Open any filing, click Add source, and upload your first document.

ID Manual fill-in terms leave a blank for you to complete, such as “Remote control toys, namely, .” Until now, those blanks always came back empty, even when the answer was already in the term you entered.

Now, ID Conversion can use your wording to fill in the blank for you, so fill-in terms can be ready to use as soon as your results load.

Stencil reads the term you entered and looks for a value that matches the fill-in. For example, if you enter “Remote control toys, namely, boats”, the suggestion will come back as “Remote control toys, namely, boats”, with “boats” marked as the filled-in value.

If your term doesn't provide a value for the blank, it stays open with the usual ID Manual guidance, and you can complete it as before.

A filled-in term is never selected automatically. Check the term to include it in your filing, or click the pencil to change the suggested value. When you edit it, the text box opens with the suggested value and the ID Manual guidance underneath. The term only changes when you confirm.

Filled-in blanks are live now for everyone. Run an ID Conversion and fill-in terms in your results can now arrive with values already filled in. Blanks that your wording doesn't provide an answer for will still need your input.

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

Many brands sell mostly through marketplaces and app stores, not their own website. Until now, Stencil only looked for specimens on the websites you gave it. With Marketplaces, Stencil can also search Amazon, Walmart, Google Shopping, Google Images, the Apple App Store and Google Play for listings that show the mark in use.

On a filing's Specimens tab, click Add source and choose Marketplaces. Turn on the marketplaces you want searched, then click Generate.

Stencil searches each marketplace for the mark and keeps only listings where the brand matches. Multi-word marks are handled too, so a "Fellow Coffee" search still finds a "Fellow Stagg Kettle" listing. Each listing is captured and graded the same way as a website specimen, so it lands in your specimen results with the same confidence scoring.

Marketplace specimens show up with your website specimens. A new Marketplaces section in the specimen filter lets you narrow the results to one or more marketplaces, and it only lists marketplaces that returned results. You can add marketplaces to a filing that already has results and start them with Generate at any time.

Marketplaces is live now. Open any filing's Specimens tab and click Add source. Marketplace search needs a mark with words in it, so pure design marks aren't supported yet.

Until now, every Stencil workspace started empty — even though your firm's filings already exist in the public USPTO record. With Bulk import, you can bring your live portfolio into Stencil in minutes and start working on it right away.

Click Bulk import on your trademark dashboard and search by the attorney of record, search by the owner of record, or paste a list of serial or registration numbers — you can also load them straight from a CSV. Stencil finds each registration at the USPTO; no login and nothing to export first.

Everything lands in a review table first — the mark, owner, attorney, classes, and registration status, with likely matches pre-selected. Untick anything that isn't yours, search within the results, and click through to any filing's USPTO record to double-check. Nothing imports until you confirm it.

One click creates a renewal workflow for each filing you selected, with the mark, client, and classes already carried over from the USPTO record. Design marks are flagged in the review and prompt you for the mark image up front, so the filing is complete before you start.

Bulk import is available to everyone now — open your trademark dashboard and you'll see the Bulk import button right there. Searching by the email on record is on our radar — let us know what would help most.

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

Start a new application and Stencil now suggests the competitors most likely to matter for your client, then shows you exactly what they filed.

Add the client's website and business description and Stencil returns a ranked list of likely competitors alongside your recommended classes. You can search for and add others yourself, and the list skips marks you've already pulled in.

The search isn't limited to competitors. Look up any mark, including your client's earlier registrations, and bring across terms the USPTO has already accepted for them. Useful when you're filing in a new class for an existing client and want the language to stay consistent with the rest of their portfolio.

Click any mark to open its registered filings: every term, with custom terms flagged, and a clear view of which of your classes it didn't cover. Where there's more than one filing, switch between them in place.

Add a class from a filing in a click, then bring across the terms you want. Adding a class doesn't bring its terms with it, so you'll either add terms or turn the class back off. Custom terms stay flagged, and your fee estimate updates as you go.

Once a term is in your application, Stencil runs a matching pass and links any supporting evidence it finds, the same check behind its own recommendations. So you can see what's actually supported for your client's goods before you file.

Competitor search is available now on new applications. Lining the compare view up side by side, and bringing this to applications already in progress, are both on our radar - let us know which would help more.

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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!