Trademark docketing software, compared

We build one of the products on this page, so treat it accordingly. What follows is the comparison we would have wanted before buying: prices where they are published, vendor silence noted where they are not, and the places where we are the wrong choice stated rather than skipped.

Published pricing

Prices move. Check the vendor before relying on any of these, including ours.

Alt Legal

The most established option and the best-liked: 4.9 out of 5 across 36 reviews on Capterra, 4.8 across 22 on G2. Its core strength is automatic docketing from USPTO and WIPO data, which is the right architecture — deadlines derived from the register rather than typed in.

Reviewers consistently raise three limits: patent docketing is weaker than trademark docketing, foreign and litigation deadlines need manual entry, and TTAB docketing is thin. Monitoring is a paid add-on rather than part of the base subscription.

Choose it if you want trademark docketing, you want it to work, and you do not need screening or watch in the same product. It is cheaper than us and more mature than us. The longer comparison is here.

DocketTrak and AppColl

Both cover patents and trademarks for smaller practices. That breadth is the point if you do both, and the cost if you do not: a combined platform models a matter generically, so trademark-specific behaviour — Section 71 for Madrid registrations, statement-of-use extension counts, two-month revival windows — tends to be something you configure rather than something that is simply true.

FlexTrac

Positioned as enterprise capability at a smaller-firm price, and reviewers broadly agree it delivers that. The trade is configurability: rules someone has to write and then maintain. A rule that was correct in November 2022 was wrong in December, when most office action response periods dropped from six months to three.

Anaqua

Enterprise IP management for corporate departments, quoted on request. Reviewers have noted its multi-jurisdiction deadline automation lags some competitors — which matters more to a trademark practice than to the enterprises it is built for. For a firm under a few hundred marks it is the wrong shape of product rather than a worse one.

Sealvo

Docketing across all seven statutory clocks, register watch, conflict screening by mark or serial, DuPont factor analysis and clearance reports — one subscription, from $149/month for 50 marks.

Do not choose us if you want the cheapest docketing: we are roughly two and a half times Alt Legal at equivalent tiers. Do compare us against docketing plus whatever you currently pay for watch and screening separately, because that is the comparison where the bundle makes sense.

And spreadsheets

A spreadsheet holds what someone typed into it on the day a mark was docketed. It does not know an office action issued last Tuesday, that a Madrid registration maintains under a different section, or that four of the five statement-of-use extensions are already gone. Malpractice carriers commonly expect deadlines to be checked twice by independent systems, and a spreadsheet maintained by the same person who would miss the deadline is not a second check.