Trademark Maintenance
Services to Preserve Your Florida Brand’s Trademark Protections
Starting at
$850
What Needs to be Done to Maintain a Trademark?
Trademarks aren’t a fire-and-forget solution. If you stop using your Trademark in commerce, for example, then your protections will eventually expire. You’ll also need to file with the USPTO every few years in order to maintain your Trademark rights and protections. Failing to keep up with these requirements places your Trademark — and by extension, your entire brand — at risk. Conducting a comprehensive review of the United States Patent and Trademark Office database.
Our Attorney reviews each request to ensure we do not have a conflict of interest with any other client before accepting any new client. Prices are our good faith estimates based on projects we have completed in the past. We reserve the right to decline any project for any reason. No Attorney-Client relationship is formed until we have a written agreement with any client indicating as such.
Submit an Order Request
Once we receive your order, our office will contact you to perform a conflict check, get more details, and schedule a time for you to speak with our Attorney. This is a no-obligation order.
Discuss Scope of Project
Our Attorney will go over the scope of the project and answer any initial questions you may have.
Engagement Agreement
We will send you an engagement agreement with the scope, pricing, and any other details you may have discussed with our Attorney.
Why Should I Hire FL Patel Law’s Tampa Bay Trademark Attorneys to Maintain My Trademark?
Even in the best of situations, deadlines and paperwork can be difficult to keep track of.
This is especially true for Trademark matters, where a missed date or filing could leave your business’s interests exposed.
With FL Patel Law’s Tampa Bay Trademark Attorneys as your ally, there’s no need to constantly check your calendar or take time out of your daily responsibilities in order to keep your Trademark safe.
We’ll ensure the continuity of your Florida brand’s Trademark protections along with the peace of mind that those protections bring.
What Happens if I Fail to Maintain My Trademark?
After a six-month grace period, the USPTO will cancel your Trademark Registration if you fail to keep up with its required maintenance and filings. There is no reinstatement process — if you want your Trademark back, then you’ll have to file for it all over again. After cancellation, you will no longer be able to enforce exclusive rights to your Trademark nationwide. However, you’ll still be able to enjoy common law Trademark protections, although the coverage provided by common law is far less extensive than that provided under a Federally Registered Trademark.
How Often Do I Need to File in Order to Maintain My Trademark?
There are two kinds of filings that are needed to make in order to keep your Trademark: 1) a Section 8 Declaration Use and 2) a Combined Section 8 Declaration of Use and Section 9 Application for Renewal.
The Section 8 Declaration of Use must be filed between the fifth and sixth anniversaries of your Trademark’s initial registration. The Combined Declaration and Application must be filed between the ninth and tenth anniversaries, and then again every ten years.
Let us focus on maintaining your Trademark. You stay focused on your business.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Are you a law firm?
Unlike many businesses and websites selling legal services, FL Patel Law PLLC is a bona fide law firm. This means that you’ll have a lawyer with actual legal expertise supporting you during your federal trademark registration — you won’t have to settle for anything less like you would with other non-attorney trademark registration services.
Will I work with an attorney?
Yes — from start to finish, our lawyers will support you every step of the way. We make ourselves available to our clients whenever possible so that you can benefit from our knowledge and experience. Our attorneys have successfully registered many trademarks for businesses across multiple industries — check them out on our trademark page here.
How does the federal trademark registration process work?
The trademark process, at both the state and federal levels, is more complicated than most people realize. Many of our clients want some insight into that process, which is why we have an article explaining it for you here.
How do you offer such affordable prices? What’s the catch?
The catch is that there are too many law firms — and non-attorney businesses offering trademark registration services, for that matter — that nickel and dime their clients every chance they get. Flat-fee services allow us to offer affordable prices that our competitors are either unable or just unwilling, to match.
How long will it take for me to receive my federal trademark?
Both state and federal trademarks typically take about nine months to register. Thousands of applications are processed every day, however, and your specific timeline may vary based on the workloads faced by state and federal agencies.