King Patent and Business Law, PLLC

Trademark Services

We can help you avoid trademark problems or fix them if you already have any.

We understand how valuable a good trademark is and how costly it can be if it’s not well-protected.

You shouldn’t have to worry about your trademarks when you’re with family, on vacation, or focused on other parts of your business.

Here’s how we help:

Focus on Trademarks: We handle trademarks as part of our core practice, unlike other firms that handle them occasionally. That means we have the experience you need.
Advice on Branding: We can assess whether your brand is unique to you and protectable or is leaving you open to accusations of infringement. We can advise you about rebranding if necessary.
Strategy: We work with you to create a tailored strategy to maximize the value of your investment in protecting your trademarks.
Support from Start to Finish: We assist with choosing a trademark, applying for trademark registration, using your trademark correctly to keep your rights, keeping an eye out for infringement, filing maintenance and renewal documents, licensing, and more.
Respect: We believe small businesses deserve the same level of trademark planning and service that large businesses get from big law firms. That’s why we’re here.

We look forward to working with your small business to protect and manage your trademarks!

Quick search
Comprehensive search and analysis
State applications
Federal applications
Office Action responses
Appeals

Oppositions
Cancellations
Maintenance and renewal filings
Review of use
Monitoring
Licensing
Enforcement

Learn more about applying for trademark registration and other important trademark topics through our free quick sheets and booklets:

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 for search, application/registration are listed below. Additional attorney fees, USPTO filing fees, and international 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.

A “class” of goods/services is a grouping of similar goods/services by the USPTO. Goods/services fall into one of 45 classes. If you offer a variety of goods/services, you may need to file in more than one class.

Starting cost for application for registration one mark in one class of goods/services: $1000 to $3000

Includes:

Assessment and Strategy
Comprehensive Search to Discover Potential Problems (Standard and Premium only)
Development and Filing of the Application
Monitoring for Potentially Infringing New Applications by Others During Pendency of Your Application
One year of Post-Registration Monitoring Support (Standard and Premium only)

Does not include $350 USPTO filing fee.

Please see our downloadable fee schedules for a detailed breakdown of costs and what’s included.

While we strongly encourage the comprehensive search, we do not require it.

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Search and Application for Registration

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.

Review of Use

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.

Monitoring for Infringement

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.

Maintenance and Renewal

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.

Licensing, Transfer, and Assignment

We draft and review licensing agreements to permit others to use your marks or to allow you to use others’ marks

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

Enforcement

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

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

We do not handle any litigation in court outside of USPTO procedures but can refer you to attorneys who focus on litigation if necessary.

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