| Term | Meaning | In the API |
|---|---|---|
| Anchor filter | A filter that identifies a small set of records directly: a number, a name or key, or a phrase. Anchored searches are fast and can sort by registration or expiry date. | See Searching |
| Applicant | The party that filed the application. Grouped with owners. | parties.owners[].roles contains applicant |
| Application number | The number the office gave the application. | identifiers.application_number; filters application_number, number |
| Batch retrieve | Fetching up to 100 full records by id in one call. | POST /v1/trademarks/batch |
| Changes feed | The ordered list of record changes, followed with a cursor. | GET /v1/changes |
complete_through | The time up to which every change has been published in the feed. | Feed envelope |
| Correspondent | The party the office writes to; often the attorney of record. Grouped with representatives. | parties.representatives[].roles contains correspondent |
| Cursor | An opaque token that continues a search or the feed from where the last page ended. | next_cursor, cursor |
| Designation | A country in which an international registration seeks protection. | designated_countries; filter designated_country |
| Expiry date | When the current term of protection ends, as the office states it. | dates.expiry; filters expiry_date_from, expiry_date_to |
feed_start | The earliest time the changes feed can start from. | Feed envelope; lower bound of since |
| Holder | The owner of an international registration, or of a right in registers that use this term. Grouped with owners. | parties.owners[].roles contains holder |
| International registration (IR) | A registration under the Madrid system, administered by WIPO, that extends to designated countries. | WO register; identifiers.international_registration_numbers |
| Jurisdiction | The register a record comes from. | jurisdiction; filter jurisdiction |
| Live / dead | Whether a mark is still in force or pending (live), or abandoned, cancelled or expired (dead). | status.category |
| Madrid system | The international trademark system administered by WIPO under the Madrid Agreement and Protocol. | WO register |
| Name key | A normalized party name used by the exact name filters. | parties.*[].name_key; filters *_key |
| Nice classification | The international classification of goods and services into 45 classes. | classification.nice_classes; filter nice_class |
| Office | The registering office a record names. | office; filter office |
| Office of origin | The office where the basic mark of an international registration was filed. | origin_office; filter origin_office |
| Office status | The office’s own status text, untranslated. | status.office_status |
| Opposition period | The period after publication in which third parties may oppose an application. | dates.opposition_period_end |
| Owner | The current proprietor of the mark. | parties.owners |
| Phrase search | Matching words in order inside a text field. | mark_text_phrase, owner_name_phrase, representative_name_phrase |
| Primary owner | The first owner of a record. | primary_owner in summaries; filters primary_owner_name, primary_owner_key, primary_owner_country |
| Priority claim | A claim to the filing date of an earlier application in another country, under the Paris Convention. | identifiers.priority_claims; filter priority_number |
| Problem details | The error format of the API, defined in RFC 9457. | application/problem+json bodies |
| Register | A dataset of trademark records kept by one office, as loaded by Pinakel. | GET /v1/jurisdictions |
| Registration number | The number the office gave the registration. | identifiers.registration_number; filters registration_number, number |
| Reloading | A register being rebuilt from its source; temporarily skipped by searches. | state: "reloading"; 503 jurisdiction-unavailable |
| Renewal | Extending a registration for a further term. | dates.renewal |
| Representative | The attorney or agent acting for the owner before the office. | parties.representatives |
| Similar group | A subdivision of a Nice class used by the Chinese and Korean offices to compare goods and services. | classification.similar_group_codes; filter similar_group_code |
| Summary | The short form of a record returned by search and the feed. | object: "trademark_summary" |
| Termination | The end of a right: cancellation, withdrawal or lapse. | dates.termination |
| Test key | A key that returns live data, with lower rate limits and no billing. | pk_test_… |
| Vienna classification | The international classification of the figurative elements of marks. | classification.vienna_codes; filter vienna_code |
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Trademark and API terms used in these docs, with the fields and parameters they map to.