Renewals & Maintenance

A federal registration is not permanent by default — it survives only if you keep using the mark and file the required maintenance documents on schedule. Miss a deadline and the registration is cancelled, with no grace beyond the statutory windows and no way to restore it except starting over. We docket every deadline and prepare each filing: the Section 8 declaration due between the fifth and sixth year, the combined Section 8 and 9 renewal due every ten years, and, when eligible, the Section 15 declaration of incontestability that meaningfully strengthens your registration.

Maintenance is also the natural home for keeping your rights aligned with your business. If ownership changes — a sale, a reorganization, a transfer between entities — we draft the assignment and record it with the USPTO so the register matches reality. If you license your mark to others, we prepare license agreements with the quality-control provisions trademark law requires; a license without them can, over time, undermine the mark itself.

For clients who want to stay ahead of conflicts rather than react to them, our Application Monitoring & Docket Watch service keeps continuous watch over pending applications and newly filed marks — see that service for details.