We Register, Enforce and Defend Your Trademarks With The Exclusive E5 Trademark Process. Manvel Trademark Attorneys
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Our Job for You

Your business is growing — you’ve worked hard to build it. Maybe you’ve already started branding, or perhaps it’s just now crossing your mind.

The Good News: your customers notice.

The Bad News is that your competition notices, too, and tries to steal your customers away.

We are the trademark lawyers who protect your business from your brand’s predators, so you can relax, grow your sales, and expand your revenue.

What You Need

We provide these U.S. Trademark services to growing businesses and entrepreneurs worldwide:

  • Trademark and Branding Strategy
  • Trademark Searches (Availability)
  • Freedom to Use (Clearance) Opinions
  • Trademark Applications
  • Office Action Responses
  • Statement of Use Filings
  • Trademark Renewal
  • Trademark Monitoring and Policing
  • Trademark Assignments and Recording Change of Trademark Ownership
  • Trademark Portfolio Management
  • Trademark Opposition
  • Trademark Cancellation
  • Amazon Brand Management
  • Shopify Brand Management

What You Need

We provide these U.S. Trademark services to growing businesses and entrepreneurs worldwide:

  • Trademark and Branding Strategy
  • Trademark Searches (Availability)
  • Freedom to Use (Clearance) Opinions
  • Trademark Applications
  • Office Action Responses
  • Statement of Use Filings
  • Trademark Renewal
  • Trademark Monitoring and Policing
  • Trademark Assignments and Recording Change of Trademark Ownership
  • Trademark Portfolio Management
  • Trademark Opposition
  • Trademark Cancellation
  • Amazon Brand Management
  • Shopify Brand Management

Our Exclusive Trademark System

Educate, Evaluate & Equip

  • Fast Processing
  • Confidential Pre-Search Interview Helps Prevent Missteps
  • Easy to Follow Classes Mean You’ll Understand Every Step
  • Action-Sheets and Checklists
  • Federal Trademark Search
  • State Trademark Search
  • Common Law Trademark Search
  • Domain and Social Media Search
  • Attorney Consultation / Strategy Session
  • Trademark Application Process Budgeting
  • Application Status Monitoring
  • Status Updates
  • It Only Takes 5 Minutes to Get Started
  • If We Can’t Help You Get Your Money Back

STEP #1: Educate & Enroll

Free and No Obligation.

Let's get on the same page.

Time to Complete: Less than 1 Minute.

Just like your customers, your brand also has unique needs. After enrolling, we educate each other.

First we learn about you, your business and the goals you have for your brand. Second, you'll learn about the registration process via our proprietary video library and Action-Sheets.

STEP #2 Evaluate

Trademark searches empower us to craft a smart plan.

Time to Complete: 2-7 Days.

Second, we cut-through the lawyer-speak and outline your options in plain English.

When finished, you will have explored what we call "the Two Big Questions":

1. Can You Even Use It? and

2. Can You Own the Rights to It?

More importantly, you'll have a plan you have confidence in.

STEP #3: Equip

Putting your plan into action.

Time to Complete: 2+ Days.

We implement your plan, which typically begins with filing trademark applications. It may also include an Amazon Branding program or Shopify Branding program. If you have immediate needs for enforcement or take-down notices, those start as well.

When complete, your applications are pending.

STEP #4: Examine

The Trademark Office and the Public scrutinize your Application.

Time to Complete: 9 - 24 Months.

It begins with an Office Examination by an Examining Attorney (the "EA"). The EA registers rejections and objections in letters called Office Actions. You must respond to these correctly to keep your application alive. Once (and if) the EA believes that your application is in order, the mark is Published.

Next, the public has the opportunity to examine your mark by registering "Opposition" to your mark's registration. Here's where preparation really pays off, because carelessly filed applications can trigger unnecessary Opposition Proceedings, and these proceedings can be lengthy, and expensive.

STEP #5: Enforce

Building your defenses.

Time to Complete: Ongoing for the Life of the Registration.

Step 5 is a journey of a thousand miles.

After you have secured your registration, under US Trademark Law, to keep it and strengthen it you must 'police it.' Policing is a fancy way of saying that you can't just let anyone use your mark, and it involves four activities:

  • monitoring databases and the internet to spot potential infringers
  • notifying the likely infringers that you have a registered mark
  • telling the competitor-infringers to stop using your mark (to 'cease and desist)
  • if necessary, litigating to force compliance with the law

My Story

I Have Over 15 Years of Experience in The Industry

Unlike most attorneys, I’m an entrepreneur — some say a successful entrepreneur. And as much as I enjoy the thought that these colleagues may be right, I certainly wasn’t always a successful entrepreneur. My first shots at starting businesses in college resulted in abandoned patent applications, zero sales and debt (not to mention late homework and shoddy lab assignments). Later, I learned hard lessons as people I trusted blatantly stole my inventions, and suppliers I trusted failed to deliver products. And, through my experience at a large law firm as well as in my own law practice, I’ve seen just about every kind of chicanery imaginable.

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Looking to Locate Your Business in Texas? Here's Why Manvel Is A Great Choice!

Grow Your Business in Manvel, Texas.

For entrepreneurs looking to establish a business in a rural area that has prioritized the development of a business sector, Manvel emerges as a choice. Manvel is near Houston (only 20 miles away) yet a world away. The town planners want to retain its rural character, maintain its strong residential appeal, and introduce some “smart city” aspects such as a walkable business district that will diversify the tax base. 

The Manvel 2015 comprehensive plan discusses horse trails, walking and bike paths to create some centralization, making the town friendly to pedestrians, connected and accessible. Statistics show that Manvel is safer than the average town, a bit less expensive and the median household income is 50% higher than the U.S. average. With just a few more than 5,000 residents, you will be part of the town’s growth and direction.

Should your business tend to a face-to-face, bricks-and-mortar retail storefront, Manvel may find a place for you in its newly emerging plan. Need light or heavy industrial space? That’s in the plan, too, where you can join other major heavy industrial tenants such as Phillips 66 and Dow Chemical

Manvel is a small town that has easy access to Houston 20 miles north with Texas State Highway 6 running through town directly to the big city. If you use air travel to get around, the Texas Gulf Coast Regional Airport in Brazoria County is a general aviation airport to take you far and wide. For commercial air travel, Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport  (hub for Southwestern Airlines) and the George Bush Intercontinental Airport (hub for United Airlines) are available with direct flights to regional, national and international destinations. 

Industrial and Construction Base in Manvel

In addition to the rural and residential base, Manvel has a strong industrial base that includes the aforementioned Phillips 66 (as well as major corporations proposing plants such as Freeport LNG and Dow Chemical R&D facility) and other companies that already have presences in town including: 

Keeshan & Bost Chemical Company

Lone Star Asphalt and Construction

E-Z Line Pipe Support 

Waste Masters of Texas

Environmental Construction Services

Want Help Growing Your Business? These Organizations Can Help!

Doing Business in Manvel, TX

The Alvin-Manvel Chamber of Commerce gives existing and new businesses a place to gather to network, support each other and build the business community to greater levels of prosperity. Some local businesses where you may want to do business include: 

The Burger Barn

First State Bank of Manvel

Stripes Convenience Store

Pomona by Hillwood

On Point Management and Risk Consulting

Does Manvel Have Access to World-Class Universities? You Bet!
  • Training and Academic Excellence for Manvel, TXFor two-year degrees or technical training and basic adult education for your employees, the Alvin Community College serves Manvel. Need a higher degree? The University of Houston is one of the dominant academic institutions in Houston; the university graduates 12,500 students a year with 80% staying in the Houston area. Other major universities within 25 miles include Texas A&M UniversityTexas Southern University and  Houston Baptist University.

    Notably, Rice University in Houston is known for outstanding academics. In particular, these programs may be of interest to you as an entrepreneur: 

    • Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business
    • Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship 
    Manvel's Not a Boring Suburb! Enjoy These Shops, Restaurants, Museum, Mercedes-Benz Superdome and World Class Healthcare Options:

    Things to Do: Manvel and Beyond

    Want to shop, eat and find entertainment for yourself and your employees? You are only two miles from the million-square-foot Pear Land Town Center. Need more excitement? Houston’s cultural and entertainment riches are easily available 20 miles away with opportunities to enjoy the arts, music, museums at top-drawer venues such as Houston’s Museum District and the Mercedes-Benz Superdome

    As for world class healthcare, you and your employees are only 15 miles from the Texas Medical Center, a 2-square-mile facility with 54 medical related institutions including 21 hospitals, 4 medical schools, research and specialty care providers. 

    Thrasher Trademark Law Can Secure Your Business and Brand in Manvel, TX

    As a trademark attorney who calls Texas home, Steven Thrasher has been practicing trademark law and serving clients in the Houston area since 2002. In that time, Steve has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs escape the competitive pressures of commodity businesses. In addition to filing trademark applications, Steve solves intellectual property problems related to trademarks, patents, copyrights, and infringements.