Flat-Fee & Expense schedule

We will bill you at flat rates for certain efforts, as noted in your Engagement Agreement with us. If efforts are not covered below, then you will be billed our hourly rates for our efforts. Like our hourly rates, we may increase our flat fees at our discretion. At any time you can find our flat fee schedule at this webpage.

Trademark flat fees

If we are representing you in trademark matters, then the Trademark Terms Addendum applies to your engagement agreement. The flat rates applicable to our trademark efforts are:

Services up to and including preparation and filing of application, per applied for trademark, per International Class: $650 with additional international classes at $125 each;

  • Review of notices or actions from the USPTO or third-parties, initial analysis, and providing recommendation: $200;

  • Updating you on communications from the USPTO regarding the status of the application: $60

  • Preparation and filing of non-substantive office action responses - $300

  • Preparation and filing of statements of use - $250

  • Preparation and filing of extensions of time to file statements of use - $175

  • Renewing trademark registrations, i.e. Sections 8, 9, and 15 filings - $350

  • Preparation of USPTO filings (not assignment agreements) for assignments of trademarks and filing - $200

  • Simple* Notices of Opposition - $500

  • Simple* Notices of Cancellation - $500

  • Simple* Letters of Protest - $400

  • Extensions of time to oppose - $175

  • Monitoring USPTO filings $1,100 per year

    • Sending alerts with brief initial analysis for references of note for such monitoring $250 each

*Simple as used here is for those filings that the Firm, in its sole discretion, believe can be prepared and filed as part of a holistic monitoring program entered into between you and the Firm. Otherwise, the Firm may apply this flat-rate, in its sole discretion, when effort invested into preparation of such a filing is the same as that necessary in a holistic monitoring program. Otherwise, you will be billed at the Firm’s hourly rates.

These fees do not include USPTO filing fees, which are out of pocket expenses we will undertake for you and you will be billed for.