Everything you need to protect your brand.
From your first clearance search through decade-out renewals, our services cover every stage of federal trademark protection. Every filing is prepared and submitted by a licensed USPTO filing partner — you get real professional handling without piecing together separate providers at each step.
Trademark Registration
File your mark with the USPTO and secure federal protection.
Trademark Renewal
Keep your registration alive with on-time maintenance filings.
The full lifecycle of a federal trademark
Trademarks aren't a one-time filing — they're a system of deadlines and proofs that keeps your rights alive over time. Here's how the pieces fit together.
Trademark Search
Before you invest in a name, we check the federal register, state databases, and common-law use for anything that could conflict with your mark. A search catches issues while they're still cheap to fix.
Trademark Registration
Once your mark is clear, an attorney at our filing partner prepares and submits your USPTO application in the right classes for your goods and services. This is where your nationwide brand protection begins.
Statement of Use
If you filed based on an intent to use, the USPTO requires proof that your mark is actually in commerce before it will finalize the registration. We help you assemble the specimen and submit on time.
Trademark Renewal
Federal registrations require Section 8 and Section 9 maintenance filings on strict deadlines. Missing one can cancel your mark and reset years of brand equity. We stay on top of the calendar.
Why work through a single guide
Most business owners only touch the trademark system a handful of times in a decade — once to register, again to prove use, then every ten years to renew. That's not enough repetition to build real fluency in USPTO forms, class descriptions, or specimen requirements.
Piecing the process together across multiple providers means learning each one's system from scratch. Working through a single guide means one consistent workflow, one place to log in, and one team that already knows your mark's history when the next deadline comes up.
Every filing on TrademarkLock.com is completed through our partner TrademarkPlus.com — a licensed USPTO filing service that has been helping business owners register and maintain trademarks for over two decades.
Not sure where to start?
Most business owners begin with a clearance search — it's the cheapest way to protect what comes next.