Find Companies Filing Patents & Trademarks

Overview

A patent or trademark filing is a company declaring that it has IP worth protecting — and often that it's under-resourced to protect it well. New filers frequently need prosecution help, portfolio strategy, freedom-to-operate work, or, later, enforcement. An IP firm that reaches the filer's team early, with genuinely useful insight, gets in before the relationship with counsel is fixed.

This Hound watches USPTO filings, filters for the applicants and technology areas that fit your practice, finds the right person at the filing organization, and opens the conversation while the IP is fresh.

How to set it up

Four things to brief your Hound. This is the exact configuration behind this play.

A · Describe the opportunity

This is the brief every source is filtered against. You describe what you're looking for in plain language, add keywords to sharpen it, then set the structured criteria.

Tell Forest what you're looking for:

"I'm looking for companies filing patents or trademarks in my technology and industry areas — especially newer or smaller filers who may need prosecution, portfolio strategy, or FTO help, and filers who are prosecuting pro se or with a firm I could displace. I want them around the time of filing. Match to my technical practice areas and geography. Skip filings from large corporations with entrenched IP counsel unless a specific opening exists."

Keywords to watch for: patent application · trademark application · USPTO filing · provisional patent · notice of allowance · office action · [your tech areas] · [your industries]

Fields to extract: applicant · filing_type · filing_date · technology_area · inventors · attorney_of_record · status · application_number

Match criteria:

• ✓ Technology / class matches your practice

• ✓ Applicant profile fits (size, stage, likely need)

• ✓ Filing recent, or at an actionable stage (office action, allowance)

• ✗ Exclude large corporations with established IP firms (unless a displacement opening)

B · Choose the sources to monitor

USPTO data is entirely public and free — Forest reads it directly against your brief.

USPTO (free — connected by default) 🟢

• Patent Public Search — ppubs.uspto.gov — Full-text patent and application search.

• Patent Center — patentcenter.uspto.gov — Application status and file-wrapper data.

• Trademark Search (TESS successor) & TSDR — tmsearch.uspto.gov — Trademark applications and status.

• TTABVUE — ttabvue.uspto.gov — Trademark trial and appeal dockets (for disputes/enforcement leads).

• Official Gazette — Published weekly; newly published marks and patents.

News & Press 🟡 default source, always on — reads the open web against your brief for product launches and R&D announcements that signal upcoming filings before they hit the USPTO.

C · Define the ICP to reach

Which people to find and reach at the filing organization, in priority order, with fallbacks.

1. Head of IP / General Counsel — Primary at companies with a legal function — PRIMARY

2. Founder / CTO — Primary at startups where the inventor drives IP decisions

3. VP Engineering / R&D Lead — Fallback for technical-relationship building — FALLBACK

D · Email & LinkedIn sequence

The play the Hound runs for each match. Fields from the filing drop in as variables.

Email · Day 0 Saw {{applicant}}'s recent {{filing_type}} in {{technology_area}} — nice to see the IP investment. Filings like this often raise follow-on questions around portfolio strategy and freedom-to-operate. We work with teams in this space on {{your_offering}}. Worth a quick call to compare notes?

↓ Wait 2 days · no reply

LinkedIn · connection request · Day 2 Hi {{first_name}} — reaching out about {{applicant}}'s work in {{technology_area}}. Would value connecting.

↓ Wait 4 days · no reply

Email · Day 6 · follow-up Following up — happy to send a brief, no-obligation look at how companies in {{technology_area}} are structuring their portfolios. Even if your current counsel has it covered, glad to be a second set of eyes.

⏸ Any reply on either channel pauses the whole sequence — the conversation is yours.