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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AI Agents & Trademarks: How Tool-Calling Drafts Your Filings
Learn how AI agents use tool-calling to research, reason, and draft USPTO trademark applications, empowering founders with control.
Decoding USPTO Trademarks: Application, Fees, and Office Actions
Navigating the USPTO trademark process requires precision. Learn about application components, the new 2025 fee structure, and how to effectively respond to office actions to protect your brand.
Agentic AI: How Tool-Calling Systems Handle Your IP Filings
Legal AI is evolving from simple drafting to full workflow execution. Discover how agentic, tool-calling systems handle research, reasoning, and drafting for your IP.
Navigating 2025 USPTO Changes: Your Trademark Filing Guide
The USPTO is evolving, with new filing systems and updated fee structures. Understand the latest changes to confidently protect your brand.
Unpacking AI Agents: The Workflow for Trademark Filings
Discover how "agentic" AI tools research, reason, and draft legal documents like trademark applications. Learn the multi-step workflows that deliver filing-ready drafts for human review.
Decoding Your Trademark Application & Office Actions
Understanding the USPTO trademark process is crucial for founders. Learn the essential steps from filing your application to responding to examiner office actions.
Tool-Calling AI: How Agents Research & Draft Your IP Filings
Legal AI agents aren't just chatbots. They plan, research, and draft IP filings by calling external tools, streamlining complex tasks for founders.
Your Guide to USPTO Trademark Filing & Office Actions
Navigate the USPTO trademark application process from initial filing to managing examiner communications. Understand what your application needs and how to respond to office actions.
Inside the AI Agent: Research, Reason, and Draft Legal Filings
Explore how AI agents go beyond chatbots, planning multi-step legal tasks, calling specialized tools, and drafting filings with precision and speed.
Cracking the Code: Your USPTO Filing & Office Action Playbook
Navigating the USPTO trademark process means understanding applications and office actions. Learn what to expect, from initial filing to responding to examiner refusals.
From Plan to Filing: How AI Agents Automate Trademark Work
AI agents are revolutionizing legal tasks. Discover how they plan multi-step workflows, use specialized tools, and draft trademark filings, shifting your role to review and approval.
Decoding Your USPTO Trademark Application and Office Actions
Understand the core components of a trademark application, what happens after you file, and how to navigate common office actions from the USPTO.
IP Agent Unleashed: How AI Researches, Reasons, Drafts Filings
AI agents now handle complex legal tasks like trademark filings, breaking goals into steps, calling specialized tools, and delivering review-ready documents with traceable citations.
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.