Legal
Legal disclaimer
What Trademark Virtue is, what it is not, and when you should be talking to a lawyer instead of us.
1.The short version
Trademark Virtue is a document preparation and filing service. Trademark Virtue LLC is not a law firm, does not provide legal advice or legal representation, and no attorney-client relationship is created by using this site or our services. We prepare and file the documents you instruct us to file. For legal advice about your rights, consult a licensed attorney. Trademark Virtue is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office, or any other government agency. Government filing fees are set by those agencies, are paid directly to them, and are separate from our service fees.
2.We are not a law firm
Trademark Virtue provides document preparation and filing services. We are not a law firm, we do not employ attorneys to advise you, and we do not provide legal advice, legal opinions or legal representation of any kind.
No attorney-client relationship is created by visiting this website, submitting a form, emailing us or engaging our services. Communications with us are confidential as a matter of contract, but they are not protected by attorney-client privilege.
We prepare and file the documents you instruct us to file. The decisions — which mark, which goods, whether to proceed — remain yours.
3.When you should speak to an attorney
You should consult a licensed attorney if you are facing an opposition or cancellation proceeding before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, an infringement claim or threatened litigation, a substantive refusal that turns on legal argument you want advised on, a question about the strength or enforceability of your rights, or a licensing, assignment or transaction involving your marks.
If you are domiciled outside the United States, USPTO rules require you to be represented by a US-licensed attorney for trademark matters. We will tell you if this applies to you rather than taking your money first.
4.No government affiliation
Trademark Virtue is a private company. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or connected in any way to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office, or any other federal, state or foreign government agency.
Government filing fees are set by those agencies, are paid directly to them, and are entirely separate from our service fees. You can file directly with those agencies yourself without using any service, including ours.
5.No guarantee of results
Nothing on this website is a promise that an application will be approved, that a search will find every conflict, or that a registration will withstand challenge. Registration decisions belong to the examining agency.
Any timeframes given are estimates based on typical agency processing times and are outside our control.
6.Information on this site
The articles, guides, service descriptions and FAQs on this site are general information about how the US trademark and copyright systems work. They are not advice about your situation, they may not be current, and they should not be relied on as a substitute for advice from a qualified professional.
7.Testimonials and figures
Testimonials on this site reflect the experience of individual clients. Individual results vary and no testimonial should be read as a prediction of your outcome. Where clients asked not to be fully identified, we show a first name and last initial.
Any statistics shown are figures for our own work and are used consistently across the site.
8.Marks used on this site
The Trademark Virtue name and logo are trade marks used by us in commerce. No claim of federal registration is made for any mark on this site unless a registration number is displayed alongside it.
Third-party names, marks and logos that appear anywhere on this site remain the property of their owners and are used only to describe the services those platforms operate. Their appearance does not imply any affiliation or endorsement.
9.Questions
Anything unclear here, email support@trademarkvirtue.com and we will answer plainly.
