Howard Katzenberg is the founder and CEO of GleanMark, a trademark intelligence platform that indexes every US trademark — all 14 million USPTO records, every prosecution event, every TTAB proceeding. He built GleanMark after seeing brand teams and IP attorneys waste hours on USPTO.gov. Before GleanMark, Howard built and sold a fintech company, Glean.ai, and was the CFO of fintech companies OnDeck Capital and Better.com. He writes and speaks about USPTO data, founder mistakes around IP, how AI is changing trademark prosecution, and working in both CEO and CFO roles at startups. He is not a trademark attorney and does not provide legal advice — but he has uniquely deep visibility into how the US trademark system actually works in practice, including refusal patterns, examiner tendenci...