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When you file for a trademark, you are signifying that the name of your company, products or services is critical to your business' success. For many business owners, the move to file a trademark is necessary to prevent a competitor from stealing a business name. However, you don't need to wait for your business to take off to file for trademarks. If you have brilliant names for your company and its products or services, you can protect them before you sell anything. Gerben Law Firm is ready to help you legally protect those names by handling your application to file for a trademark.
USPTO, which is the federal agency that handles all applicants who file for trademarks, charges a filing fee for each trademark application. It won't refund the fee even if the agency rejects your application to file for a trademark. To help you avoid losing the trademark filing fee of $325 per class to the government, Gerben Law Firm can make sure that you provide all necessary information when you file a trademark application with USPTO. We also can handle all Office Actions, which are queries that USPTO reviewers send if they have questions about your application when you file for a trademark. Even if you know nothing about how to file a trademark, Gerben Law Firm will make the process as smooth and painless as possible.
When you work with Gerben Law Firm to file for trademarks, you will get to work personally with trademark attorney Josh Gerben. We recognize that businesses want to maximize their investments, and we work hard to be as efficient as possible when we file for trademarks. To start the process, we provide a free consultation with trademark attorney Josh Gerben. He can answer many of your questions about how to file a trademark.
Besides providing specific information when you file a trademark with USPTO, you need to do conduct your research. It is your responsibility to make sure that no one else has already successfully worked to file a trademark for the name you want to register. In addition, you need someone to make sure that there aren't similar trademarks that could cause USPTO reviewers to reject your application. Gerben Law Firm will search federal databases before we file a trademark to make sure that there are no existing trademarks for the name you want to register. We'll go deeper in our search, too, to identify similar names, especially within your industry, and provide a detailed report that highlights potential obstacles. That basic search package can clear the path for you to file a trademark.
However, there's more to trademark protection than just figuring out whether you can successfully file for trademarks. Even if USPTO grants you a federal trademark, you might not be able to use your business name in some areas because other companies might possess "common law" rights to a name. In some regions, state and local courts extend common law trademark rights to companies that have established a presence. To do so, they must meet the courts' threshold for established use, which varies from court to court. With Gerben Law Firm's comprehensive package, you can get a list of companies that might challenge your trademark before you file for a trademark.
Our comprehensive search package includes a thorough review of state and business databases. During that search, we look for companies that are using an identical or similar name for which you want to file a trademark. We scour your market in particular because those companies are most likely to present a legal challenge to your name even after you successfully file a trademark application. Trademark attorney Josh Gerben will review those results with you to determine whether you face enough potential legal problems to make it worth considering picking a different name to file for a trademark.
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