Your trademark, filed by a real trademark attorney.

Longer than anyone likes: typically 12 months or more from filing to registration, driven by USPTO examination timelines. We can't speed the USPTO up — no one can — but we track your application the whole way and tell you what each step means when it happens.

Every search ends in a straight risk assessment for your mark. If it comes back high-risk, the decision whether to file is still yours — but you also have a choice: a refund of the filing portion of your fee (including your unspent USPTO filing fees), or a free second search on a different mark within 90 days. If the second mark also comes back high-risk, we refund your USPTO fees — your attorney fee covers the two searches performed.

If you decide to move ahead despite a high-risk assessment, we can — with your written acknowledgment of the risks.

An office action is a preliminary refusal of your application. Many can be overcome; some are fatal. We won't tell you it's "routine" or "nothing to worry about" — we'll tell you what kind it is and what your realistic options are.

Non-substantive office actions (formalities like disclaimers or description tweaks) are included in your flat fee. Substantive refusals — like a likelihood-of-confusion rejection — require real legal work whose scope depends on the refusal, so we quote those separately, usually as a flat fee, when they arise.

You can still file now on an "intent to use" basis and lock in your place in line. Registration will require a later Statement of Use filing once you're using the mark ($550 attorney fee + $150 USPTO fee — the attorney fee is already included in the Premium Plus package), and extensions are available if you need more time ($265 + $125 USPTO fee each). We tell you this up front because those costs are real — most filing sites mention them only after you've paid.

Because USPTO filing fees are nonrefundable, and an application that conflicts with an existing registration is usually money burned. The search is how we spend a few hundred dollars of attorney time to protect the rest of your investment — and it's why we don't file until you've seen your risk assessment.

Because Ambit is not form submission. Your fee buys attorney judgment before filing — a real search and risk assessment before your USPTO fees are spent — plus an application drafted by the attorney and a defined attorney-client engagement with a real law firm. That costs more than a filing portal. It's also how you avoid paying nonrefundable government fees on an application with an obvious problem.

Because the scope is standardized and priced up front. Ambit does defined trademark-registration work at a flat fee — not open-ended hourly representation. If your matter needs more than the package covers, we quote that work separately, flat, before it starts. You get the same attorney judgment; you just don't pay for a blank check.

You'll get a link to a questionnaire about your mark — about 10 minutes. You already accepted our terms of engagement when you signed up, so there's nothing further to sign. From there: we run a conflicts check (required before any law firm takes on a client), and — assuming no conflict — the attorney begins your search. If the conflicts check means we can't take your matter, everything is refunded in full.

In Standard and Premium: responses to substantive refusals and Statement of Use filings on intent-to-use applications (the Premium Plus package includes both). In every package: multiple substantive refusals, appeals, disputes and oppositions, and post-registration maintenance and renewals. These are too complex and unpredictable to include in flat fee packages, but we'll work with you to keep your costs as low as possible if they come up and you decide to keep going.