One person, one job: tell you the date
GuardMyMark is a small independent software product. It is not a law firm, it employs no attorneys, and it gives no legal advice. What it does is read the US trademark register every day and tell you when somebody files a name close to a mark you own — with the day your window to act closes.
Why it exists
When the USPTO approves an application it prints it in the Trademark Official Gazette, which comes out every Tuesday. From that publication date there are 30 days to object or to ask for more time, and the first 30-day extension is free and granted as of right. Nothing is sent to the owner of an existing mark. There is no USPTO watch for somebody else’s filing — MyUSPTO tracks only your own applications.
So the clock starts and runs out in silence, and most owners meet a conflicting filing much later: a listing comes down, or a letter arrives. By then the cheapest move on the table has expired. That gap is the entire reason this exists.
What it will never do
It will never tell you that a filing infringes your mark, and it will never recommend whether to oppose one. There is no field in the database for an opinion like that. Every notice, every report and every PDF ends at the same sentence: forward this to your attorney. That is not modesty — it is the line between software and legal advice, and it is enforced in the code rather than left to judgement.
It also will not pad a notice to look busy. If nothing new passed the threshold you set, no email arrives that week.
How it is sold
Every price is on the pricing page. There is no demo, no sales call and no qualifying form — you can run a real check in about thirty seconds without telling anyone who you are. Payments are handled by Creem as merchant of record, so your invoice and any sales tax come from them.
Support is email, answered by someone who works on the software. The support page says what that covers and what it does not.
How to check any of this
Every external number on this site is sourced to a primary document — the USPTO fee schedule, the Official Gazette’s own publication schedule, 37 CFR § 2.102(c) for the extension ladder, Article 46 EUTMR for the European rules. Where something could not be verified against the source, the page says so instead of printing it. The deadline guide is the clearest example.
Find out whether a clock is already running
One mark, its classes, about thirty seconds. No account and no card.