Field Notes
Essays and how-tos on AI, trademarks, patents, and IP strategy — from the team building MarkDocket. Plus The Docket: a two-minute weekly briefing on the IP news that matters, unlocked when you subscribe.
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How AI Agents Research, Reason, and Draft Your Trademark Filings
AI agents are transforming legal work by researching, reasoning, and drafting multi-step workflows. Understand how these advanced systems tackle complex IP tasks.
Demystifying USPTO Filings: TEAS, Nice Classes, Specimens
Navigating USPTO trademark applications involves understanding TEAS forms, Nice Classification, and proper specimens. Learn the essentials to file your mark effectively.
Navigating USPTO: TEAS, Classes, & Specimens for Founders
Demystify USPTO trademark filing. We break down TEAS options, Nice classes, and specimen requirements for founders.
AI Agents: Your IP's Research & Drafting Engine
AI agents are transforming legal work from simple chatbots to goal-driven tools. Discover how they research, reason, and draft trademark filings, with humans always in the loop.
Inside the AI Agent: How It Drafts Your Trademark Filings
Agentic AI is transforming legal work. Learn how these systems plan, research, and draft filing-ready trademark applications, bringing law firm-level IP support to founders.
USPTO Trademark Deadlines: Your Calendar for Staying Registered
Missing a USPTO deadline can mean losing your brand protection. Learn how to track every critical date for your trademark application and registration.
Your USPTO Filing Map: TEAS, Classes, and Registers Explained
Demystify the trademark application process. Understand the USPTO's TEAS system, how Nice classes work, what makes a proper specimen, and the difference between the Principal and Supplemental Registers.
Nice Classes: Picking the Right Ones for Your Trademark
Understanding Nice Classification is key to protecting your brand. Learn how to select the right trademark classes for your business and avoid costly mistakes.
AI-Powered Trademark Applications: What the USPTO Allows
The USPTO embraces AI for trademark processing. Learn how AI tools draft filing-ready applications, what rules apply, and how humans remain central to the process.
Don't Miss a Deadline: Navigating USPTO Office Actions and Renewals
Trademark applications and registrations come with critical deadlines. Learn the current USPTO response times, renewal cycles, and how to monitor your IP status effectively.
Your Trademark Clearance Report: What to Look For Before You File
Learn to interpret your trademark clearance report. Spot potential conflicts and understand the real risks before you commit to a name.
The WEMBY Refusal: Naming Lessons from False Connections
A precedential decision against "WEMBY" for athletic apparel shows how nicknames trigger trademark refusal. Founders must consider false connection and living individual bars when naming their brands.
The IP news that matters, in two minutes
A short weekly briefing on the trademark, patent, and IP developments that actually affect founders — picked from the sources we monitor, explained in plain English, with links to the originals. Field Notes above is free to read; the live Docket feed is for subscribers.
Six beats on the IP lifecycle
Posts mirror the work the agent does — from the first clearance search to a watched, organized portfolio.
Search & clearance
How to read a clearance report, what a twelve-source fan-out covers, and when a name is safe to file.
Filing & prosecution
The anatomy of a trademark application, office-action responses, and how the agent drafts every field.
Monitoring & deadlines
Setting watches, picking alert channels, and never missing a USPTO deadline again.
AI & agents
Inside the tool-calling loop — how the agent researches, reasons, and hands you a filing-ready draft.
IP strategy for founders
Protecting your name and patents early, on a startup budget, without a law firm on retainer.
USPTO guides
Plain-English walkthroughs of TEAS, classes, specimens, and the registers — no jargon required.
Put the agent to work on your IP
The blog will be here when you come back. In the meantime, clear a name, draft an application, or set a watch — your first clearance run is on us.