Trademark Enforcement

Trademark enforcement is essential for brand protection and for keeping the rights you’ve been granted through trademark registration. If you don’t “police” your marks, you run the risk of losing those rights.

We help clients enforce their rights through a variety of tools:

  • Monitoring for infringing use by others
  • Filing oppositions to and letters of protest regarding new trademark applications of others that could cause confusion with consumers
  • Filing cancellation proceedings against others’ registered marks that are problems for yours
  • Sending cease-and-desist letters to infringers
  • Filing for domain takedowns (DCMA takedowns)
  • Filing for social media username takedowns

 

We also can assist if you are on the receiving end of these actions.

Fees

We work using flat rates. You will know up front what the total cost will be for the services most appropriate for you, barring unforeseen circumstances.

Common fees are listed in this downloadable fee schedule. Additional attorney and USPTO filing fees may apply to these listed fees. The fees listed here are starting points. Fees ultimately depend on the complexity of the work required.

Trademark Fees: Enforcement

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We can file your federal and/or state (IL and GA) applications.

We also help with responses to refusals (Office Action) and appeals of final rejections,

We perform searches and analyze the results to spot issues that may prevent or cause other problems for registration and advise you about your options to address them.

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We review how you use your mark after registration to ensure your use helps retain your full rights and makes renewal easy (you have to show proper use at renewal).

Yearly, quarterly, monthly, and weekly service is available.

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We perform and analyze monthly searches of new federal registration filings to see whether anyone is attempting to register a mark that is possibly infringing on yours.

To see whether there may be other infringing use of marks, searches of social media, domains, and internet use are also available.

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We assist with filing maintenance and renewal paperwork for both federal and state (IL and GA) registrations.

This includes assistance with gathering specimens to show ongoing proper use of the mark.

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We draft and review licensing agreements to permit others to use your marks in exchange for a fee or to allow you to use others’ marks in exchange for a fee.

We also draft and file assignments and transfers of rights to others, for single marks, a portfolio of marks, or as part of the purchase or sale of a business

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We can send and help you respond to cease-and-desist letters.

We can also assist you with cancellations, oppositions, etc.

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