Start a new application and Stencil now suggests the competitors most likely to matter for your client, then shows you exactly what they filed.
Stencil suggests who to look at
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.
Or pull from your client's own past filings
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.
See exactly what they filed
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 classes and terms to your application
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.
Every term you add is checked against evidence
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.
Watch a 1 minute walkthrough here