One question before a product is listed: is this brand suing sellers right now.
The filings are public from day one but buried in court databases where nobody reads them. TRO Radar does.
About the project
In the US, brands file Schedule A lawsuits against hundreds of anonymous marketplace sellers at once. The defendant list is sealed, so a seller learns about the case when the money in the account is already frozen. There have been about 10,000 such cases since 2018, around 3,300 in the last 12 months.
TRO Radar pulls every such case daily from public federal court records via CourtListener and RECAP and gives a verdict for any brand or product name. Red: the brand has open cases, don't list it. Yellow: the brand has sued before, the cases are closed but it clearly enforces. Green: no matches, a signal but not a guarantee.
Match accuracy relies on a dedicated filter: a brand matches only on a word that actually identifies it. The query sony finds Sony Interactive Entertainment, while the word universal on its own matches nothing.
Why a seller checks first
- ✕The brand's product is already listed
- ✕The brand sues hundreds of sellers at once
- ✕The defendant list stays sealed until the freeze
- ✕The store is frozen along with the money
- ✓A brand verdict before listing
- ✓Labels right on marketplace search cards
- ✓An alert the day a new case is filed
- ✓A leaderboard of the most litigious brands
Website
Brand search, live stats and a 12-month filing chart, the latest cases, a page for every case with parties and a link to the full docket, the top 100 plaintiffs and product portfolio monitoring.
Brand check pages are indexed by search engines and act as free landing pages.
Browser extension
Data and costs
Revenue model
The model is built into the product: a free plan with verdicts, scanning up to 100 cards a day, a 3-product portfolio and a daily digest, and Pro with unlimited scanning, a portfolio of up to 500 products and instant alerts by email and Telegram. A red verdict is never paywalled: the warning builds trust, and the paid plan sells scale and automation.
Billing is deliberately not wired yet, until demand is proven. Connecting a payment provider is one webhook that flips the account's plan. Launch post drafts for seller communities on Reddit are ready, along with the metrics for deciding on the paid plan.
Buyer questions
What does it cost to run?▾
The whole stack runs on free hosting and database tiers. Optional costs: a custom email domain at about $10 a year and $5 for a Chrome Web Store developer account.
What's on the roadmap?▾
Deeper case history back to 2018, more case name patterns, matching by design patents and images from complaint exhibits, double opt-in for the watchlist and a paid plan with CSV export.
Is this legal advice?▾
No. The service surfaces public court records, and verdicts are heuristics, not legal determinations.
Deal terms
What's included
• Source code of the site, database and extension • Data collection scripts • Project website
The exact scope of the handover is fixed in the agreement.
Price negotiable
0 offers submittedThe price is negotiable. Name your amount and terms: the seller sees your offer and replies to you directly. Other buyers do not see it.
Talk to the owner
Questions, terms and documents stay here, next to the listing. Both sides keep the whole history.
Discuss the deal
Write to the owner right on this page: questions, documents and terms stay in one conversation.
