Trademark assignment recordal for US businesses

A named person on our team owns your file and reviews everything that leaves it. Software does a real share of the grinding underneath it — coding, matching, flagging the obvious gaps — but nothing regulated happens without a person’s judgement, and nothing here is signed or filed by an algorithm.

No — trademark assignment recordal is operational work inside your books, not something submitted to IRS. Where a filing does sit downstream of it, inside trademarks & ip more broadly, that stays with your CPA or enrolled agent, never with us.

Whatever you already run. Most commonly QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, Zoho Books and a handful of others — we work inside your system rather than moving you onto one of our own.

A short, free read-only look at what you already have, and a written note on what we found. A scoping call decides the size of the engagement — nothing here commits you to anything.

There is no published price for trademark assignment recordal — it depends on volume, how many entities are involved, and how far behind the books are. We quote after the read-only review, which is free.

Trademark assignment recordal sits inside trademarks & ip, alongside Trademark search & registration, Trademark office action response, Trademark renewal (§8 & §9). Most clients end up buying the category as a whole rather than one leaf at a time, but starting narrow is fine.

It updates the ownership entry the USPTO shows for an application or registration in its public Assignment Search database, so the official record matches who actually owns the mark now. It does not issue a new registration certificate — the registration itself is unchanged; only the ownership entry is corrected.

$40 for the first mark named in the submission, and $25 for each additional mark owned by the same party recorded in that same filing. The fee is flat per mark, regardless of the size or value of the underlying transaction.

There is no statutory deadline — an unrecorded assignment is still valid between the buyer and seller. But recording within roughly three months of the assignment date is what protects the new owner's priority against a later purchaser who might otherwise buy the same mark in good faith without notice of the earlier transfer, so we treat that window as the practical target.

Recording an already-signed assignment through ETAS is administrative, non-attorney-exclusive work, and CapEasy handles that filing directly. Drafting the assignment agreement itself — the document that actually transfers the mark — is legal work handled by the transaction's counsel; we pick the filing up once that document is signed.

Correspondence tied to that underlying application continues to route through that attorney of record. We check who is currently listed before filing and flag it if that needs updating separately as part of the same transaction.

A signed instrument that actually conveys the mark — a standalone assignment agreement, the relevant excerpt of an asset purchase agreement, articles of merger, or a security agreement if a lender is taking an interest in the mark. ETAS requires the document itself attached as a PDF or TIFF, not just a summary of the transaction.

Yes, a partial assignment is a normal recordal — some goods, services, or classes transfer while the rest stay with the original owner. The coversheet needs a description specific enough that the public record is unambiguous about exactly what moved.

We pull the mark's full history from USPTO's Assignment Search database before filing anything new. If an earlier assignment in the chain was never recorded, we flag the gap so it can be addressed rather than recording the latest transfer on top of a broken chain of title.

Yes. An entity conversion changes the legal owner of record even if the people running the business have not changed, and the USPTO's ownership entry needs to reflect the new entity. This is one of the more common triggers we see for a recordal that otherwise would have been missed.

No — recordal is a clerical process. The USPTO records what is submitted; it does not adjudicate whether the underlying transfer was properly executed or whether the assignor actually had the right to convey the mark. That validity question sits with the transaction document and the counsel who drafted it, not with the recordal itself.

No — that decision, and the assignment agreement that implements it, sit with your counsel on the transaction. What we do is make sure that once the decision is made and the document is signed, the USPTO's public record catches up to it correctly and on time.