Trademark search & registration 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.

For foreign-domiciled applicants, all USPTO trademark matters run through a US-licensed attorney; CapEasy prepares the search, specimen and application file the attorney works from.

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

No. Since August 3, 2019, every foreign-domiciled applicant must be represented by a US-licensed attorney under 37 CFR §2.11(a) — this applies to the application, every Office Action response, and every renewal that follows. We prepare the clearance search, the goods/services description, the specimen, and the full filing pack; a US-licensed attorney of record reviews it, signs, and files it with USPTO.

Both were eliminated on January 18, 2025. USPTO's filing system moved from TEAS to Trademark Center, and there is now a single base application fee — $350 per class — instead of two pricing tiers based on how complete the application was.

The USPTO base fee is $350 per class, filed through Trademark Center using ID Manual language with a description under 1,000 characters. Surcharges apply for incomplete information (+$100/class), a custom non-ID-Manual description (+$200/class), or an extra 1,000 characters of identification (+$200/class). This is the government fee; it does not include the US attorney's own charge for filing and prosecuting.

Roughly 8 to 14 months to registration if the application is unopposed, following USPTO's initial examination (targeted around 3 months under 2025 process changes), the 30-day publication and opposition window, and — for intent-to-use filings — the Statement of Use step after a Notice of Allowance.

There is no general expedite. The only mechanism is a Petition to Make Special, filed for a $400 fee and granted only on narrow grounds like actual or imminent infringement litigation or a governmental deadline — not simply wanting the process to move faster. It moves the application up in the examination queue; it never bypasses the publication or opposition windows.

USPTO's Trademark Search database (the current Trademark Center successor to TESS), common-law and state-level use that was never federally registered, and the domain landscape. A search limited to the federal register alone misses the unregistered-but-established conflicts that most often surface later as refusals or oppositions.

A Section 1(a) use-in-commerce filing means the mark is already being used in commerce and includes a specimen showing that use; if it clears examination and publication, the registration certificate issues directly. A Section 1(b) intent-to-use filing is for a mark not yet in use — it clears the same examination and publication steps but then requires a separate Statement of Use, with its own fee, filed within 6 months of the Notice of Allowance (extendable up to 3 years).

Anyone who believes they would be damaged by the registration has 30 days from publication (extendable) to file a Notice of Opposition with the TTAB, at $600 per class. That is a separate, litigation-style proceeding — our clearance search work is aimed at reducing the odds of getting there, but an opposition itself is handled by the attorney of record, not by CapEasy.

USPTO's ID Manual has pre-approved language, organized by class, that examining attorneys accept without extra scrutiny. Language outside that list — even if it accurately describes the business — triggers a $200/class custom-description surcharge, and a longer description adds a further $200/class per extra 1,000 characters. We map the description to ID Manual terms before the attorney files, which is where cost and friction actually get controlled.

CapEasy coordinates the relationship with a US-licensed attorney partner who serves as attorney of record on the filing; the search, specimen, and filing pack we prepare is what that attorney reviews and files under their own signature. Which specific attorney handles the matter, and their engagement terms, is between the client and that attorney.

That is handled as a separate service — the trademark office action response — where CapEasy organizes the evidence and argument file and the attorney of record drafts and files the substantive response with USPTO before the 3-month (extendable to 6-month) response deadline.