Secure Your Trademark with Confidence

After you submit your application, our legal team does the case review and availability search for your trademark application. If we require any additional information from you, we will contact you either by phone or email. The application is usually ready within 1-2 business days after which it is filed. Sometimes, the process can take longer if there are delays getting responses from clients or if there are further clarifications required.

It takes around 6-9 months to issue the registration certificate after the filing date, if there are no legal issues with the application.

Typically, you will have to pay legal preparation and federal filing fees to register your trademark. At Trademark Diligence, the legal preparation fee for a US trademark starts at $35 plus the federal filing fee of $450 per classification. During the examining phase of your application by the government, if there are any legal challenges by the government or a third party due to potentially confusingly similar trademarks, you will have to pay an additional fee for the office action response if you wish for an attorney to draft a response on your behalf. The cost can range from $999 to $1,999 depending on the complexity of the issue.

Oftentimes no. However, if the other mark is linked to different products or services, it might be possible because there would be fewer chance of confusion between existing and potential customers.

For example, Domino Sugar and Domino Pizza coexist because they both sell different products to prevent confusion between consumers.

You can start the registration process, but the trademark will not officially be registered until you can show a proof of use of the mark in commerce. Some people get on with their business to see if it’s viable before registering the trademark while others begin the registration process to make sure their business is protected before spending time and money building it.