Register Your Brand the Right Way with a Trademark Registration Attorney
Trademark registration gives you nationwide, exclusive rights to your brand. Keough Law handles the clearance search and USPTO application for clients nationwide for a $550 flat feeplus government fees—usually filed within 3–5 business days.
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Common-law rights stop at the county line
Using a name gives you limited rights where you actually do business. A federal registration gives you a nationwide claim to the mark, the right to use ®, a public record that deters copycats, and the leverage to stop infringers in federal court.
The filing itself is the easy part. Getting it right—so it isn't refused months later—takes a real clearance search and a carefully drafted application. Learn more about our trademark practice.
- Nationwide priority from your filing date.
- Legal presumption that you own the mark.
- Use of the ® symbol.
- Grounds to block confusingly similar filings.
What makes a mark registrable
Every application is judged on the same core questions. Our clearance search answers them before you pay a government fee.
A distinctive mark
Invented and arbitrary names register easily. Descriptive names often get refused unless they’ve acquired distinctiveness.
No likely confusion
The mark can’t be confusingly similar to a registered or pending mark for related goods or services.
The right identification
Goods and services must be described precisely, in the right classes. Mistakes here can’t be broadened later.
Use or intent to use
You file based on current use in commerce with a valid specimen, or on a bona fide intent to use the mark.
Cheap filings get expensive refusals
Online filing services submit what you type. If the mark conflicts with an existing registration or the description is wrong, you find out months later in an office action—after the government fee is spent.
An attorney filing starts with a judgment call: is this mark worth filing, and how should it be described to give you the broadest protection?
File and hope
- Exact-match search only
- No opinion on refusal risk
- Generic goods descriptions
- Office actions are on you
Clear, then file
- Similar-mark and common-law search
- Written opinion before filing
- Identifications drafted for coverage
- Examiner correspondence included
$550 flat fee, filed in 3–5 business days
One mark, up to two classes: clearance search, legal opinion, USPTO application, and examiner correspondence. Government fees are additional. Timing assumes no issues are found in the search.
“Shaun flagged a conflict I never would have found, helped me adjust the mark, and had the application on file within the week.”
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From search to ®
Expect roughly 8–14 months from filing to registration, depending on USPTO backlog and whether an office action or opposition arises.
Clearance search
We search the USPTO register and common-law uses, then give you a written opinion on risk before anything is filed.
Application
We draft the identification, choose classes, and file—use-based or intent-to-use—typically within 3–5 business days.
Examination
A USPTO examining attorney reviews the application. We handle correspondence and any office action that issues.
Publication & registration
The mark publishes for a 30-day opposition period, then registers—or receives a notice of allowance for intent-to-use filings.
What's included—and what isn't
The Trademark Filing Package is $550 per application for up to two classes, plus USPTO fees. Additional classes are $550 per block of up to two.
If the examiner issues an office action that needs legal research and writing, we bill that work at $350 per hour—only after you authorize it. See office action responses.
Filing backed by litigation experience
You work directly with Shaun Keough, who also handles TTAB oppositions and trademark infringement cases. Knowing how marks get challenged shapes how we file them.
Trademark registration questions
How much does it cost to register a trademark with an attorney?
Keough Law’s Trademark Filing Package is a $550 flat fee per application covering up to two classes, plus USPTO government fees. It includes the clearance search, a legal opinion, the application, and examiner correspondence. Office-action responses that require legal research and writing are billed separately at $350 per hour, only after you authorize them.
How long does trademark registration take?
Our clearance search and filing usually take about 3–5 business days from engagement if there are no issues. After filing, the USPTO process typically takes roughly 8 to 14 months to registration, depending on examination backlog and whether an office action or opposition arises.
Do I need a trademark attorney to register a trademark?
You aren’t required to use one if you’re a U.S.-domiciled applicant, but most refusals trace back to problems an attorney catches early: a conflicting mark, a descriptive name, a bad identification of goods, or an improper specimen. A filing that is refused can cost you the government fee and months of time.
What is an intent-to-use application?
An intent-to-use application lets you reserve a mark before you launch, based on a bona fide intent to use it in commerce. Once the application is allowed, you file a Statement of Use showing actual use. It secures a nationwide priority date as of your filing date once the mark registers.
What happens after my trademark registers?
You need to keep it alive. A Section 8 declaration of use is due between the fifth and sixth years after registration, and the registration must be renewed every ten years. You should also watch for confusingly similar marks and enforce your rights when needed.
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