Stay away from what the USPTO calls “illegitimate trademark mills” when trademarking your business name, slogan or logo. Call today for a free expert trademark consultation.
You may know I was able to talk to David Gooder, the USPTO Commissioner as well as key training staff members Jason Lott and Craig Morris over the last 4 months, as part of our never ending quest to go back to the year 2010. That is when everyone – trademark services like us and trademark attorneys directly – actually did true comprehensive legal research BEFORE ever filing ANY trademark application. Then the “trademark mills” started operations and took over the top of the Internet. To reach a rock bottom price, they negligently file mark after mark with very little or no legal research to determine IF a mark is LEGALLY CLEAR – or not, before use, before filing a trademark application. In the case of an attorney, this practice is unethical.
An attorney’s duty is to watch out for their clients, and advise properly, to convey the very real risk of filing a trademark blindly. The reality is that 35% to 40% of desired trademarks are NOT legally clear as comprehensive legal research can easily determine. Add to that other party has 10 years to enforce their sound, appearance or meaning rights, it is now, as it was in all the years before 2010, very important to base your trademark on actual comprehensive legal research – then file your trademark – as we do, since 1992.
One more thing I learned in my conversations with the USPTO, is that bystatute the USPTO can only research it’s own database of 3.5 million Federal trademarks. I had never heard that before, that they were constrained by statute. I knew they didn’t research State trademarks, (1.5 million marks) or common law right holders, (25 million marks.)
What is trademark infringement?
Trademark infringement is the unauthorized use of a trademark’s sameor related goods or services in SOUND, APPEARANCE or MEANING, while also considering customer type and distribution channels, as well, in a manner that is likely to cause confusion in the marketplace. Acquiescence happens when a mark is not enforced over time, thereby losing rights to your trademark. This is why our work includes free access to our seasoned network of 10 trademark attorneys, to expertly sort though conflict and similarity issues. An experienced attorney is needed for every trademark, as we provide.
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TradeMark Express Unique Step-By-Step $800 – $100 Fall Special = $700. To order, please call 650-948-0530 or 800-776-0530 or see our order form at: https://www.tmexpress.com/order-my-trademark/.
Our total Comprehensive Research Trademark Package – TradeMark Express Includes:1) $200 True Legal Comprehensive Federal & 50 State Trademark Research & Analysis, 2) $200 True Legal Comprehensive Common Law Research & Analysis, 3) Database Costs, 4) Trademark Attorney Analysis, 5) $400 – $100 Fall Special Trademark Application for USA or Canada, 6) Free Minor Office Action Coverage (Save Extra $150), 7) Trademark Monitoring for 1 Year (Save Extra $400), and 8) IF our trademark attorney determines your mark is LEGALLY BLOCKED, then we will provide upon request Creative Replacement Naming services from NAME-IT with 10 new names provided for FREE. NOTE: Our fee does not include Federal (USA & Canada) or State (USA) filing fees of US$350 per class for USPTO or Canada’s CIPO CA$330. Additionally, IF you are a Canadian business, then one of our trademark attorneys is required by the USPTO to file your USA trademark. We will still collect and prepare your USPTO applications, thereby saving the attorney ~2-3 hours work, but our trademark attorney will charge you directly for about an hour of their time, $100 to $400 per filing, depending which of our attorneys you hire.
–or– Urgent Trademark 100% Service – 3 Chances at Fixed Fee =$1000.
To order, please call us at 650-948-0531 or 800-5TRADEMARK or see our order form at
: ://www.urgenttrademark.com/order.php. With Urgent Trademark you can search up to 3 names to get 1 that is legally clear. We provide ALL the services of TradeMark Express and MORE! You may want to consider our 100% service company Urgent Trademark because we will do the likely research result competitive checks and we will talk to your assigned trademark attorney for you. Our total Comprehensive Research Trademark Package – TradeMark Express Includes: 1) True Legal Comprehensive Federal & 50 State Trademark Research & Analysis, 2) True Legal Comprehensive Common Law Research & Analysis, 3) Database Costs, 4) Trademark Attorney Analysis, 5) Trademark Application for USA or Canada, 6) Free Minor Office Action Coverage (Save Extra $150), 7) Trademark Monitoring for 1 Year (Save Extra $400), and 8) IF our trademark attorney determines your mark is LEGALLY BLOCKED, then we will provide upon request Creative Replacement Naming services from NAME-IT with 10 new names provided for FREE. Urgent Trademark’s extra services, that the client would do themselves with TradeMark Express, will likely save you a lot of time – from 2-6 hours as well as 5-15 days in actual time. NOTE: Our fee does not include Federal (USA & Canada) or State (USA) filing fees of US$350 per class for USPTO or Canada’s CIPO CA$330. Additionally, IF you are a Canadian business, then one of our trademark attorneys is required by the USPTO to file your USA trademark. We will still collect and prepare your USPTO applications, thereby saving the attorney ~2-3 hours work, but our trademark attorney will charge you directly for about an hour of their time, $100 to $400 per filing, depending which of our attorneys you hire.
Contact Us – Call – Anytime Zoom – Email TradeMark Express https://www.tmexpress.com/ Urgent Trademark https://urgenttrademark.com/ 650-948-0530 Los Altos, California Office Staff 202-496-1600 Washington, DC Office Staff Email: staff@tmexpress.com Open 7am to 4pm EST, Mon. – Fri. Since 1992