Attorney-led trademark search, federal filing, and office action response — all included. No surprise fees when the USPTO writes back.
Most trademark applications don't fail at filing. They fail at follow-through. The USPTO issues office actions on a significant percentage of applications. Budget services don't handle them. DIY filers don't know how to respond. The application gets abandoned. The filing fee is wasted. The brand is unprotected. We include office action response because the alternative is a half-finished job.
Typical $99 service
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A real attorney reviews your mark against existing registrations, pending applications, and common law uses. This is legal analysis — not a database lookup, not an AI scan. We tell you if your mark has conflicts before you spend money filing.
This is where most cheap services fail you.
We prepare and file your federal trademark application with the USPTO. Proper classification, accurate descriptions, correct specimen selection. Filing mistakes delay registration by months.
The USPTO issues office actions on a significant percentage of applications. These are objections or requests for clarification that require a legal response. This is where most DIY and budget trademarks die — the filing fee is wasted and the mark is abandoned. Our service includes responding to office actions.
Included. This is the big one.
Once approved, your mark publishes for opposition and then proceeds to registration. You get a federal registration certificate and nationwide priority from your filing date.
Trademarks take roughly a year. Instead of paying everything upfront for a process that hasn't happened yet, spread the cost across the timeline of the actual work.
Monthly payments that track the process. No interest. No financing company. Just a payment structure that matches reality.
Pay monthly as your application progresses through the USPTO pipeline.
The best time to register a trademark is when you form the business. Lock down the name before someone else does.
LLC FormationFiling a trademark application costs money — your filing fee is non-refundable even if the application is refused. A proper search before filing tells you whether your mark is likely to conflict with existing marks. This isn't a Google search or a quick database scan. It's legal analysis of similar marks, related goods and services, and likelihood of confusion — the actual standard the USPTO uses.
An office action is a letter from the USPTO examining attorney raising issues with your application. It could be a likelihood of confusion with another mark, a descriptiveness refusal, a specimen problem, or a classification issue. You typically have 3 months to respond (extendable to 6). If you don't respond properly, your application is abandoned and your filing fee is gone.
Because office actions are common and they're the #1 reason trademark applications fail. Budget filing services charge $300-500 to file, then charge $500-1000+ for office action response — or they simply don't offer it, leaving you to find another attorney mid-process. We include it because the filing without the follow-through is incomplete.
Typically 8-14 months from filing to registration if everything goes smoothly. If there's an office action, add a few months. The USPTO's timeline is the USPTO's timeline — we can't speed it up, but we can make sure nothing on our end causes delays.
Trademarks take roughly a year from filing to registration. Instead of paying everything upfront, you can spread the cost across 12 monthly payments that roughly match the timeline of the work. You're not paying for something that's already done — you're paying as the process unfolds.
You can. The USPTO allows it. But the refusal rate for self-filed applications is significantly higher than attorney-filed applications. The most common mistakes: wrong classification, bad specimen, descriptions that are too broad or too narrow, and not knowing how to respond to an office action. The filing fee ($250-350 per class) is non-refundable either way.
They file the paperwork. That's it. No legal search, no legal advice on whether your mark is registrable, and definitely no office action response. When the USPTO sends an office action — which happens on a large percentage of applications — you're on your own. The $99 you saved becomes $500+ in additional attorney fees, or a wasted filing fee when the application gets abandoned.
Different tools for different things. Copyright protects creative works (writing, art, code, music) and exists automatically when you create something. Trademarks protect brand identifiers (names, logos, slogans) used in commerce. If you're building a brand that people will recognize, you probably want both — copyright for your content, trademark for your name and logo.
Attorney-led trademark search, filing, and office action response.
12-month payment plan. No surprise fees.
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