Comprehensive Trademark Clearance Search and Written Opinion
A full clearance analysis covering federal, state, and common law uses, domain and business-name records, and the marketplace itself.
You get a written opinion that grades the risk for each class of goods or services rather than a stack of raw search results. This is the document that makes a later willfulness argument much harder to sustain. Written and signed by an MC Law attorney, with the analysis and the assumptions it rests on set out in full.
Frequently asked questions
The fee covers the search and analysis the opinion rests on, a written opinion signed by the attorney, with its reasoning and assumptions set out, and a call to walk you through the conclusions and the next step. It is fixed at this scope: one mark, one class, and excludes search vendor fee. 1 round of revisions are included. If your matter falls outside that scope we tell you before starting and quote the difference—we do not bill past a flat fee without agreeing it first.
1 to 2 weeks from a complete set of instructions, plus time for the 1 round of revisions included in the fee. If you are working to a court deadline or a closing date, tell us when you order and we will confirm in writing whether we can meet it before you commit.
$2,600 is $325/hour × 8 hours—the time this deliverable takes in an ordinary trademark prosecution matter, at the firm's standard rate. Because it is a flat fee, the risk of the work running long sits with the firm: you pay $2,600 whether it takes us the estimate or twice it.
1 round of revisions is included. You can add more when you order, or later, at $400 per additional round. A round is one consolidated set of your comments and our revised draft back to you.
Third-party costs are never inside a flat fee and are passed through at cost, never marked up: court and agency filing fees, court reporter and transcript charges, expert witness fees, search vendor and e-discovery hosting charges, process server fees, and travel.
The product, process, mark, or patent the opinion is about, the question you need answered and the decision it supports, any patents, marks, or prior art you already know about, and the launch, filing, or litigation timeline you are working to. Send what you have—if something is missing we will tell you what else we need before the turnaround clock starts.
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Other Trademark Prosecution work MC Law prepares on a flat fee.
Answer to a Notice of Opposition
An answer to an opposition with affirmative defenses and, where the facts support it, a counterclaim to cancel the opposer's registration.
1 to 2 weeks2 revisions
Answer to a Petition to Cancel
An answer defending a registration against cancellation, with affirmative defenses and any available counterclaim.
1 to 2 weeks2 revisions
Response to a Final Office Action or Request for Reconsideration
A request for reconsideration after a final refusal, adding evidence or argument the examining attorney has not yet seen.
1 to 2 weeks2 revisions
Response to an Expungement or Reexamination Office Action
A response defending a registration against an office-initiated or petitioned nonuse challenge.
1 to 2 weeks2 revisions
Expungement or Reexamination Petition
A petition asking the office to remove goods or services from a registration that were never used or are no longer in use.
1 to 2 weeks2 revisions
Madrid Protocol International Application (Form MM2)
An international application filed through the U.S.
3 to 5 business days2 revisions