Your Idea. You Created it. Let's Protect it! Helping businesses call Dibs on their Ideas. Trademarks and Copyrights are your company's most valuable assets. How to register a trademark.

1. Law Office of Sandy Bartlett, LLC
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Helping businesses and
individuals protect their most
valuable assets—their ideas.
“I thoroughly enjoy
working one-on-one
with creative individuals
who are excited about
turning their ideas into
valued business assets.”
1. Attorney Bartlett conducts a search of the
United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)
records and internet for similar marks and
provides her legal analysis as to the registrability
and strength of the desired mark based upon
the search results.
2. If the search results are favorable, she prepares
an application and declaration to be signed by
you, as an officer of your company or as an
individual. This document is signed under
penalty of perjury that: (1) the signor is an officer
or the owner, (2) the signor believes it to be the
owner of the mark and (3) there is, to best of the
signor’s knowledge, no other mark that is likely
to be confused with the desired mark.
3. The application is then filed with the PTO along
with a specimen showing how the mark is used.
4. An examiner at the PTO reviews the application,
conducts a search of the PTO records and
determines whether the application is approved
for publication.
5. If the application is not approved for publication,
the examiner will notify Ms. Bartlett’s office via a
written official action; response to the official
action must be filed within six months.
6. Once the notice of publication issues, any third
parties believing they would be harmed by the
registration of the desired mark will have 30 days
to file an opposition or request an extension of
time to file an opposition.
7. The opposition process is handled by the
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) as an
ancillary proceeding.
8. Once the desired mark proceeds through the
publication phase, registration will issue.
The entire process can take between eight to twelve
months or more depending on the PTO’s
examination, third parties and your response time.
Once registered, your trademark rights extend
throughout the entire United States and will not be
limited to the state of Maryland. However, state
trademark applications are available under a similar
procedure and at less cost.
If retained, Ms. Bartlett will notify you of all
communications with the PTO promptly. She
cannot guarantee any specific outcome and all
expressions are limited only to estimates based
upon her experience and judgment and are only her
opinion. They should not be viewed as promises or
guarantees of results.
Sandy Bartlett, Esq., works with her clients to protect
their intellectual property rights by obtaining the necessary
registrations for their trademarks and copyright works.
1910 Towne Centre Boulevard, Suite 250, Annapolis, MD 21401
301.502.6675 • sandy@bartlettlawyer.net • jsbartlettlaw.com
Law Office of Sandy Bartlett, LLCSM
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The process for the registration of a trademark in-use is as follows:*
*The process for an application based on an intention to use the mark in the future is different.
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It’s your Idea.
You Created It.
Let’s Protect it!