What we've indexed. And what we haven't.

Status matrix

Every jurisdiction or meta-source that lands in jurisdictions_consulted or sources_consulted on the wire is in the table below. Tier counts are computed from the source-of-truth module at apps/web/lib/coverage.ts; a single edit there propagates to every public surface (homepage, llms.txt, MCP description, JSON-LD).

Top-7 jurisdictional layer · R13

The R13 board memo carved a Top-7 tier covering ~97% of inbound /v1/verify queries: US + UK + EU + CA + AU + JP + IP India. New Zealand IPONZ rides alongside as the Anglo-5 anchor. Rows below surface as a focused subset of the full table for press kit and LLM citation reach.

Per-jurisdiction detail

Each card below is the honest disclosure for one jurisdiction — what's indexed, when it was last refreshed, what's missing (the known-gap surface), and the link to the versioned Coverage Spec when one exists. The Coverage Spec is the 14-field artifact that operationalizes the cardinal rule (R13).

Domain axis · ADVISORY tier (R15 RED-2)

Per HOD R15 24hr Gap-Closure RED-2 (2026-05-19) and R16: Domain availability surfaces as an advisory signal across up to 8 TLDs via authoritative RDAP; registry-set premium pricing, ICANN reserved-name guards, and aftermarket-listing detection are NOT_CHECKED at launch. The R13 Domain Axis audit found ZERO of 8 publicly-claimed TLDs reach claim-grade against the strict sub-conditions; rather than ship a partial scored axis, the entire domain surface is downgraded to advisory — parallel to the Sound axis advisory tier.

Every /v1/verify response carries a tlds_consulted: list[dict] field with per-TLD method and definitiveness — parallel to jurisdictions_consulted on the trademark axis. A TLD NOT in the receipt was NOT consulted for that verdict. Advisory rows surface availability binaries (registered / not registered) but do NOT carry verdict-grade weight.

Cultural axis · three-tier disclosure (R15 RED-3)

Per HOD R15 24hr Gap-Closure RED-3 (2026-05-19) and R16: COVERED-with-caveat tier is 14 languages (HurtLex + LLM advisory); ADVISORY-only tier is 14 additional languages; 9 publicly-mentioned languages are NOT_CHECKED. Native-speaker review is recommended before launch in any market beyond the COVERED-with-caveat tier. The 9 NOT_CHECKED languages (Bengali, Cantonese, Hausa, Yoruba, Amharic, Urdu, Punjabi, Hebrew, Tagalog) were de-claimed in the Cultural P0 sync (162b6bd) which also shipped the sacred_names denylist and the cultural_sources_consulted wire field.

Cultural axis is advisory-only. Native-speaker review is recommended before launch in any market beyond the COVERED-with-caveat tier.

Sound axis · ADVISORY tier (R12)

Sound symbolism and pronunciation-resilience scores ship at ADVISORY tier with explicit `advisory: true` on the wire. Non-ASCII input returns STRATEGIC per.

The wire receipt · jurisdictions_consulted

Every /v1/verify response carries a jurisdictions_consulted: list[str] field with the sources actually queried for that specific verdict. LLM integrators (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Lovable, et al.) are contractually required to render this list verbatim — the user sees exactly which jurisdictions were checked for their name.

A source NOT in jurisdictions_consulted was NOT consulted for that verdict. That is the cardinal-rule honest receipt — the partial-data-as-complete trap codified by the R13 board can never silently fire if the receipt is rendered.

POST https://api.etymolt.com/v1/verify
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "name": "Karvan"
}

→ 200 OK

{
  "verdict": "PROCEED",
  "score": 87,
  "jurisdictions_consulted": [
    "USPTO_bulk",
    "USPTO_TTAB",
    "UKIPO_domestic",
    "AU_IPAS",
    "WIPO_Madrid_IR_UK_subset",
    "famous_marks_denylist",
    "auto_famous_marks"
  ],
  "tlds_consulted": [ ... ],
  "platforms_consulted": [ ... ],
  "cultural_sources_consulted": [ ... ],
  "disclaimer": "Clearance signal, not legal advice...",
  ...
}

Roadmap

Per the R13 board memo (2026-05-19), the public roadmap is committed as follows. Slippage triggers a board reconvene per (≥ 6 items slip → R14 retrospective).

1. 2026-05-19Live

   USPTO COVERED at 14M+ rows (R16)

   Founder cardinal-rule mandate met. tm_index.db at 14,008,141 rows. Supersedes R13 PARTIAL gate.

2. 2026-05-30In flight

   USPTO TTAB cron resume (R13)

   16-day delta lag closes when cron resumes. TTAB returns to weekly cadence.

3. 2026-07-31 (end Q2 2026)Scheduled

   Wave 1 launch — EUIPO + Anglo-5 closure

   EUIPO + CIPO + IPONZ promoted to COVERED. Coverage Specs published per jurisdiction. The 5-condition gate (R13) reviewed at each promotion event.

4. 2026-10-31 (end Q3 2026)Scheduled

   Wave 2 launch — IP India

   Top-7 complete. R14 board convenes (~2026-09-01 target). Madrid full-bulk DEFERRED-90D decision revisited.

5. 2027-Q1-Q2Scheduled

   R14 expansion — G10 + China

   Germany + France + Japan + Korea + China sequenced rollout. Non-Latin script handling research dependencies cleared first.

Cross-jurisdiction meta-sources

Three meta-sources are consulted on every verdict regardless of jurisdiction. They surface in sources_consulted on the wire and are catalogued here so the receipt is complete.

Cite this page

Etymolt (2026). Trademark coverage — per-jurisdiction status table. https://www.etymolt.com/coverage (published 2026-05-19; last modified 2026-05-20).

Source memos: /methodology · /trust · R13 board memo (2026-05-19) · R15 HOD Status 24hr Gap-Closure (2026-05-19) · R16 post-P0 launch review (2026-05-19) · R17 advisor MVP doc review (2026-05-20).