Most practices run those five stages in five different places: a search vendor, a spreadsheet, a docketing tool, an email thread and a litigation file. Entermark holds them in one.
Each stage today has its own tool, its own reminder system and its own way of losing context at handover. The cost is not any single stage — it is the seams between them.
A conflict is only opposable while the window is open, and the window opens the day the journal publishes — not the day someone gets round to checking it. Entermark detects at publication, compiles the grounds and has a TM-O drafted before the matter reaches a fee-earner’s list.
A practice can buy each capability separately, and most have. What none of them share is the mark itself — so context is retyped at every handover.
| Search vendor | Docketing tool | Entermark | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clearance search | String and phonetic | Not covered | Phonetic, visual and conceptual |
| Journal monitoring | Add-on, per mark | Not covered | Every journal, scored class-wise |
| Objection replies | Not covered | Deadline only | Drafted with precedent, ~5 min |
| Opposition filing | Not covered | Diary entry | Grounds, evidence and TM-O drafted |
| Enforcement | Not covered | Not covered | Tracked across Registry, IPD and High Courts |
| Context at handover | Report, emailed | Docket number | One file, all five stages |
Bring one contested mark to the call and we will run it live. Book thirty minutes.
Conventional search matches strings and phonetics. Smart AI Search adds visual similarity for device marks and conceptual similarity — marks that mean the same thing without looking alike — and grades the result class-wise into a filing recommendation.
Firms running the full platform report roughly three times the IP throughput per fee-earner, because search, watch, prosecution, opposition and enforcement stop being five separate systems with manual handover between them. It is customer-reported and varies by portfolio mix.
No. Everything is drafted for attorney review. A qualified professional approves before anything reaches the Registry or a court.
Yes. Competitor and sector watch is part of advanced monitoring, which is how most conflicts are caught early enough to oppose rather than rectify.
Yes — Android and iOS, so alerts on a journal conflict reach the person who needs to decide, not an inbox they read on Friday.
Import the matter with its filed grounds and evidence, and the docket opens at the current stage with the counter-statement window already computed.
Bring one live notice, one contested mark or one regulator you care about. We’ll show you the draft it produces and who signs it.
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