When it comes to trademark management, Alt Legal surpasses Anaqua with superior automation, cost-efficiency, and a customer-first approach. With a trademark-specific focus, Alt Legal excels at automating tasks, streamlining collaboration with stakeholders and outside counsel, and offering comprehensive support—so you can focus on high-value work. Driven by customer feedback, we reinvest 50% of topline revenue into product development, keeping Alt Legal at the forefront of innovation.
Below is a side-by-side comparison of Alt Legal vs. Anaqua, highlighting the areas that matter most to trademark professionals and where Alt Legal truly stands apart.
Superior Automation
| Feature | Alt Legal | Anaqua | Details |
| Automatic USPTO trademark creation, document sync, and removal of completed deadlines, all with daily updates | Y | N | Alt Legal automatically creates and updates records from USPTO and retrieves all TSDR documents with daily USPTO updates. Anaqua requires manual profile entry to create records and remove deadlines, with updates lagging behind Alt Legal’s daily sync. |
| Automatic updates of global trademark statuses and deadlines | Y | N | Alt Legal automatically updates USPTO & CIPO statuses and deadlines via direct connections to the IP offices, and the system can retrieve data from 180+ IP offices to calculate global renewal and use deadlines. |
| Automatic daily USPTO trademark updates | Y | N | Alt Legal offers real-time updates from the USPTO; Clients tell us that Anaqua’s USPTO trademark updates can be delayed as long as a month. |
| Automatic population of USPTO TEAS trademark forms | Y | N | Alt Legal transfers information from collaborative trademark intake forms directly to TEAS applications. |
| Automatic TTAB and dispute schedule docketing | Y | N | Alt Legal automatically populates TTAB details and deadlines based on an initial entry, and provides custom global dispute schedules that can be extended with a few clicks. Alt Legal also downloads all TTAB documents to store within the docket. |
Emphasis on Efficiency
| Feature | Alt Legal | Anaqua | Details |
| Automatic, individualized docket reports of status updates and deadlines. | Y | N | Alt Legal’s docket emails include upcoming deadlines and status changes with direct links to TSDR and the docketed matter. The frequency and view of the docket emails can be customized. |
| Automatic and customizable calendar sync of docketed deadlines | Y | N | Alt Legal automatically creates personalized calendar feeds with custom data points. |
| Unlimited modules to accommodate a range of IP filings and workflow | Y | N | Alt Legal allows users to define custom modules at no additional cost. Anaqua is limited to broad matter categories like “Trademark” and “General Matters” and cannot define their own custom matter types. |
| Drag and drop reporting | Y | N | Alt Legal enables users to quickly create and download customizable and reusable reports using drag and drop. Saved reports can automatically refresh with updated data with a single click. |
| WIPO docketing with cross-designation matrix views | Y | N | Alt Legal’s unique WIPO views clearly present designations, differences among goods and services, and designation deadlines in a single, consolidated view. |
Customer-Centric Approach
| Feature | Alt Legal | Anaqua | Details |
| Unlimited users | Y | N | Alt Legal provides unlimited user access—internal and external—at no extra cost, with custom access permissions for colleagues, clients, and outside counsel. Free support is available to manage access. Anaqua, by contrast, charges for each user and requires an administrator to adjust access. |
| Unlimited data migration, initial and ongoing | Y | N | Alt Legal provides free initial and ongoing data migration, clean-up, and custom data mapping. Anaqua charges for initial account creation and data migration. |
| Unlimited customer support and training | Y | N | Alt Legal offers unlimited support and training at no extra cost, available via live chat, phone, email, and web conference. We respond to customer requests within minutes and actively incorporate client feedback and feature requests. Anaqua, on the other hand, charges for support and training, with clients reporting slower response times compared to Alt Legal. |
| Ease of use and frustration-free trademark docketing | Y | N | Alt Legal’s intuitive interface is built for trademark professionals. Anaqua is better optimized for patent professionals. |