We Stop The Competition
From Raiding Your Business.
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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