# Trademark Conflict Watch — Brand Monitoring API (`nexgendata/trademark-conflict-watch`) Actor

Monitor new trademark filings for conflicts with your brand. Clean JSON for IP counsel, brand teams and AI agents.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgendata/trademark-conflict-watch.md
- **Developed by:** [NexGenData](https://apify.com/nexgendata) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $100.00 / 1,000 conflict / delta matches

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Trademark Conflict Watch

Monitor new trademark filings for conflicts with your brand. Built for IP counsel, brand teams, researchers and AI agents.

> This actor surfaces public IP records as data for your attorney or IP team — it is not legal advice or a legal clearance opinion.

### ⏰ Run this as a conflict watch (recommended)

Every IP registry actor is a monitoring subscription, not a one-shot lookup. Schedule a weekly sweep and catch new filings as they land:

```json
{
  "query": "MyBrand",
  "limit": 100
}
```

Weekly cron (`0 8 * * 1`) turns this into an always-on conflict watch.

### 📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per match (full output has 7 fields):

- `mark_name` — Mark name
- `conflicting_mark` — Conflicting mark
- `similarity_score` — Similarity score
- `application_number` — Application number
- `status` — Status
- `filing_date` — Filing date

**Pricing:** $0.20 per match (Pay-Per-Event) — about **5 matchs per $1**.

### 🤖 Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and run trademark conflict and similarity monitoring on demand.

**Sample agent prompt:**

```
Watch weekly for trademark filings similar to my brand and flag conflicts.
```

**Agentic payments (x402):** Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

### 🔗 Related IP actors

**Clear a mark across every major registry:** [USPTO Trademarks](https://apify.com/nexgendata/uspto-trademark-search), [EUIPO Trademarks](https://apify.com/nexgendata/euipo-esearch-trademarks), [WIPO PatentScope](https://apify.com/nexgendata/wipo-patentscope-search), [CNIPA China](https://apify.com/nexgendata/cnipa-china-patent-search), [Korea KIPO](https://apify.com/nexgendata/korea-kipo-kipris-plus-patents-trademarks)

**IP agent front door:** [Patents & Trademarks IP MCP](https://apify.com/nexgendata/patents-trademarks-ip-mcp-server)

***

*Data from public intellectual-property registries.*

UK register → [uk-trademark-search](https://apify.com/nexgendata/uk-trademark-search) (GB marks, post-Brexit clearance).

# Actor input Schema

## `watch_marks` (type: `array`):

Brand/mark names to monitor for new or conflicting filings. Required unless owners or classes is provided.

## `owners` (type: `array`):

Owner / applicant names to monitor. Filings whose owner matches are flagged owner\_match / same\_owner.

## `classes` (type: `array`):

Nice classification numbers (1-45) to flag. Filings in these classes are flagged same\_class.

## `jurisdictions` (type: `array`):

Which trademark systems to watch. US = USPTO/TMView, EU = EUIPO/TMview.

## `similarity_mode` (type: `string`):

exact = identical normalized mark; normalized = punctuation/diacritic-insensitive; fuzzy = also flag near-matches (opt-in).

## `mode` (type: `string`):

delta = only new/changed matches since the last run (first run creates a baseline). full = all current matches.

## `include_raw` (type: `boolean`):

Attach the raw source record to each output row.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Cap on results pulled per mark per jurisdiction.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "watch_marks": [
    "Acme"
  ],
  "owners": [],
  "classes": [],
  "jurisdictions": [
    "US",
    "EU"
  ],
  "similarity_mode": "normalized",
  "mode": "delta",
  "include_raw": false,
  "maxResults": 25
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "watch_marks": [
        "Acme"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgendata/trademark-conflict-watch").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "watch_marks": ["Acme"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgendata/trademark-conflict-watch").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "watch_marks": [
    "Acme"
  ]
}' |
apify call nexgendata/trademark-conflict-watch --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nexgendata/trademark-conflict-watch",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/tqozMAk2ZCt0wdwtb/builds/ozRBhOkAhpLd8PXWa/openapi.json