Trademark Licensing and Assignment

You can make money with your trademarks through licensing and assignment!

  • You can license your trademarks to others. That allows them to use your marks and you to get paid by them for that privilege. License agreements can be tricky, as you need to take care not to get into a franchising situation if that’s not your intent.
  • If you do want to franchise, licensing your trademarks are an essential part of that.
  • Your trademarks are also an asset of your business, so if you sell your business, you can assign those trademarks to the new owners and make sure their value is taken into consideration in the sale price.

 

We help clients with trademark licensing agreements, whether they are the trademark owner or the licensee.

We help clients with trademark assignment agreements, whether they are the seller or buyer.

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: Transfer and Assignment

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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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