Good choice. Here's how it works from here.
Confirm the package below, see exactly what happens next, and start your questionnaire when you're ready.
flat attorney fee, one mark, one class included
Each additional class is $350 in attorney fees plus the $350 USPTO fee, settled with your attorney after your assessment and before filing.
Two classes on Standard, for example: $1,795 + $350 in attorney fees + $700 in USPTO fees, $2,845 in total at the start.
Filing intent-to-use (not selling under the mark yet)? A Statement of Use filing comes later, included in Premium and added in Essentials and Standard (currently $550 in attorney fees plus the USPTO's $150 fee, per class).
What happens next
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Tell us about your mark
The button below opens our questionnaire about your mark, covering the name or logo and the goods or services you'll use it with. Plan on at least half an hour. You can save your answers and come back to them. It asks for detailed information, like who owns the mark, what is sold under it, and, if you're already selling, when your use as a trademark in interstate commerce began and how you can show it.
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Sign your Terms of Engagement, then pay
At the end of the questionnaire, you review the firm's Terms of Engagement, sign once, and pay on our secure payment page. If you don't start your payment within 14 days of signing, your sign-up lapses and your answers are deleted.
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Conflicts check, then your search
Once your payment is received, we run a conflicts check (required before any law firm takes on a client), and then the attorney searches and sends you a straight risk assessment for your mark, typically no more than 8–10 business days after your payment clears. The decision to file is always yours.
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We file and see it through
On your go-ahead, we prepare and file your application, then track it through registration with plain-English updates at every step.
How your money is handled
Your payment is deposited into our attorney trust (IOLTA) account, a regulated account that keeps client money separate from the firm's, and isn't earned until we do the work. If a conflict check means we can't represent you, it's refunded in full. Your USPTO filing fees are never spent until we file, with your approval, after you've seen your risk assessment.
If your assessment comes back high-risk, you choose: stop and take back the filing portion of your fee plus your unspent USPTO fees, try a different mark with a free second knockout search (within 30 days), or file anyway with eyes open.
Read the Terms of Engagement first
You will review and sign the full Terms of Engagement before anything is charged.
First, pick your package.
The three main packages include an attorney search and a straight risk assessment for your mark before anything is filed. Established Brand skips the search for a name already in long use (one can be added).
Essentials
The basic checks, not the deeper analysis
$995 Starting total at sign-up: $1,345, including one $350 USPTO filing fee.Attorney search, risk assessment, specimen review, and a prepared application.
Standard
The pre-filing analysis
$1,795 Starting total at sign-up: $2,145, including one $350 USPTO filing fee.Full pre-filing analysis, broader search, filing strategy, and counsel.
Established Brand
For the name you've already built
$1,095 Starting total at sign-up: $1,445, including one $350 USPTO filing fee.For a name in use for years, filed without a new search, as you confirm when you sign your Terms of Engagement.
Premium
Standard's analysis, plus later steps and the most attorney time
$2,595 Starting total at sign-up: $2,945, including one $350 USPTO filing fee.Standard plus stored evidence, sent to you or your next attorney whenever you want, included filings, and more attorney time.