Federal protection for your brand and your creative work. Flat-fee USPTO trademark filing. Copyright counsel and filings included as part of broader IP work — not a separate line item.
A federal trademark is the strongest brand protection available in the U.S. It locks in your right to use your name, logo, slogan, or other source identifier in commerce — and gives you the legal tools to stop competitors from copying you. Without it, you're operating on common-law rights that are weaker, geographically limited, and harder to enforce.
Boutique IP firm pricing. Boutique IP firm work. Without the boutique IP firm overhead.
If you're launching a brand or business, you'll spend more on rent, materials, packaging, and payroll than you will on the filing that legally protects what you're building. That's the point. The trademark is the foundation everything else rests on. Cheap filings (LegalZoom, Trademark Engine) skip the clearance search, skip the proper drafting, and get refused by the USPTO at far higher rates than represented applications. The "savings" disappear the first time you have to refile or fight a confusingly similar mark.
Copyright protects creative works the moment they're fixed in tangible form — but registering them with the U.S. Copyright Office unlocks the real enforcement power. Without registration, you cannot sue for infringement in federal court, and you lose access to statutory damages and attorney's fees.
Here's the honest truth most lawyers don't say out loud: copyright filing is straightforward. The U.S. Copyright Office fee is around $65 per work, and the form is something a careful person can fill out themselves. That's why ELN doesn't sell copyright as a separately billed legal product — it would be misleading to charge hundreds for what is essentially a $65 government filing.
Where the real lawyer value sits is in strategy, not data entry:
If you're already engaging ELN for trademark work or under contract review, copyright counsel and basic filings are folded in at no additional charge — it comes with the relationship. If you only need standalone copyright work without the broader engagement, three flat-fee tiers are listed below in the pricing section.
One flat, all-in price per tier — quoted before any work begins.
Standard IP attorney rates run $300–$500 per hour. Comprehensive trademark work — clearance search, filing, prosecution, monitoring, brand strategy across a year — runs well over 20 hours of attorney time.
Billed hourly, you'd easily spend over $6,000 before you've even secured your trademark — or know whether you're eligible to register it in the first place. That's the trap of hourly billing: the meter runs whether your mark survives examination or not.
ELN's flat-fee pricing absorbs the hourly risk. The total is quoted before any work begins, and the legal work — including the clearance search that tells you whether your mark is even eligible — is covered. No meter running. No surprise invoice if the search reveals problems. No back-end charges.
Flat, all-in · 1 class included
Flat, all-in · 1 class included
Flat, all-in · 3 classes included
If you're already a trademark or contracts client, copyright filings are included at no charge. For standalone copyright work, three tiers below.
+ $65 U.S. Copyright Office fee pass-through
+ ~$195 in U.S. Copyright Office fees (3 filings)
+ government filing fees pass-through
ELN trademark filing comes in three flat, all-in tiers: Filing Essentials at $2,000 (federal filing, 1 class), Brand Protection at $2,500 (adds 12 months of monitoring + cease-and-desist support), and Brand Vault at $3,500 (up to 3 classes + portfolio strategy). One flat price per tier — it already includes the USPTO's government filing fee — quoted before any work begins. Additional classes are +$650 each, all-in. Below boutique IP firm pricing. Above filing mills. Real attorney work.
Filing happens within days of intake. Registration through the USPTO typically takes 8–14 months once filed, depending on whether the examiner issues an Office Action. We monitor the entire way.
Trademark protects your brand — names, logos, slogans, source identifiers — filed with the USPTO. Copyright protects creative works — music, writing, art, photography, software, video — registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. Most creators need both: copyright on the song, trademark on the artist name.
Yes — three ways depending on your situation. If you're already a trademark or contracts client, copyright counsel and basic filings are folded in at no extra charge. For standalone copyright work, three tiers: Single Work Filing at $150 (one work, includes 15-min consultation), Creator Bundle at $400 (up to 3 related works, strategy session, contract review for work-for-hire clauses), and the Creator Protection Package at $800 (bundles a copyright with contract review and trademark consultation). U.S. Copyright Office government fees (~$65 per work) are disclosed as pass-throughs. Honest disclosure: a basic single-work filing is straightforward enough that you can do it yourself directly with the Copyright Office — the $150 tier is for clients who want it handled correctly without the time investment.
You can technically file pro se, but USPTO refusal rates are significantly higher for unrepresented applicants. A real IP attorney runs proper clearance searches, drafts ID-Manual-correct descriptions, and handles Office Action refusals. Filing mills don't do that work.
An Office Action is a refusal or objection from the USPTO examiner. It must be responded to within 3 months (extendable to 6) or your application is abandoned. Response work is quoted separately — typically $300–$1,200 depending on whether it's procedural or substantive.
Yes. Band names, artist names, label names, podcast names — all federally registrable as trademarks if they meet the use-in-commerce or intent-to-use requirements. We've filed for independent artists, producers, and labels.
Yes. Trademark and copyright filing is federal — we represent clients before the USPTO and U.S. Copyright Office regardless of state. Most of our IP clients are out of state.
Federal trademark or copyright. Flat fee, all-in price, real attorney work.
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