A private trademark attorney can help you before, during, and after the trademark application process, including policing and enforcing any trademark registration that may issue.  While you are not required to have an attorney, an attorney may save you from future costly legal problems by conducting a comprehensive search of federal registrations, state registrations, and “common law” unregistered trademarks before you file your application.  Comprehensive searches are important because other trademark owners may have protected legal rights in trademarks similar to yours that are not federally registered.  Therefore, those trademarks will not appear in the USPTO’s Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) database but could still ultimately prevent your use of your mark.  In addition, trademark lawyers can help you during the application process with several things that could seriously impact your trademark rights, such as determining the best way to describe your goods and services and preparing responses to refusals to register that an examining attorney may issue.  Finally, a private attorney can also assist in the policing and enforcement of your trademark rights.  The USPTO only registers trademarks. You as the trademark owner are responsible for any enforcement.

Honesty, honesty, honesty. We want you to know the truth about the trademark you are trying to register. We won’t try to hide the ball to try to extract more money from you. If we can help you register a trademark, we will tell you. If we cannot help you register a trademark, we will tell you. If there are several options you need to consider before registering your trademark, we will lay them all out for you. We believe helping you is the best way to build our business.

About The Attorney:

Jason R. Lee went to law school at Ave Maria School of Law. He graduated from the University of Michigan and was attracted to Ave Maria’s focus on ethics. That attraction and focus on ethics has developed into the guiding principles of his law practice. After law school, Mr.Lee worked at a document filing company where he began helping people file trademark applications. While employed there, Jason became acutely aware of how limited the company was in how it could help its clients, because they were not operating as a law firm, and therefore, unable to practice law. Mr. Lee decided to form a law firm that focused only on trademark law and he began practicing only trademark law in 2009. When asked about his choice Mr. Lee replied, “It was the best business decision I ever made.”

Mr. Lee’s Experience:

• When at the document filing company: filed over 300 trademark applications
• Successfully registered over 1200 Federal Trademarks and counting since started working on the attorney side of the equation, and has hundreds more in the queue on their way to registration
• Reviewed over 7,000 office actions
• Overcome likelihood of confusion refusals
• Overcome refusals for being generic