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Trademark monitoring means watching for confusingly similar new filings and uses after you register, because the USPTO does not police the market for you. LawSensai watches for conflicts, sends infringement alerts, tracks renewal and maintenance deadlines, and connects you with an independent licensed attorney to respond.
Register a trademark with the USPTO by running a clearance search, filing an application in the correct class with a use or intent-to-use basis, then clearing examination and publication.
The January 2026 USPTO fee restructuring rewrote the math for small patent and trademark filers. Here is what changed, what stayed, and where strategy needs to shift.
A provisional is a one-year option, not a patent. A non-provisional is the real thing. Here is when each makes sense, what the provisional actually buys you, and the drafting failures that cost founders the priority date.