Your virtual trademark department

A virtual trademark department for companies without one

Large companies have a trademark department: someone who clears names before launch, files, watches the register, keeps the docket and acts when a look-alike appears. Most companies have none, and find out what that costs at the worst moment. Marksy is that department as a service — research, filing, watching, docketing and enforcement, each at a posted flat fee, with independent attorneys where the law requires them.

What the department does

1. Clears names before launch. Free knockout search across the federal register; comprehensive clearance with state and common-law sources and a written attorney opinion; a brand builder that pre-screens generated names against live marks and domains.
2. Files and prosecutes. Flat-fee application packages, office action responses by refusal type, statements of use, renewals — prepared from organized intake and filed by an independent attorney of record.
3. Watches the register. Daily monitoring for confusingly similar new filings, with a triage inbox that explains why each hit matched; tracking for any mark with status-change alerts.
4. Keeps the docket. Every deadline the rules engine can derive — office action responses, statement of use windows, §8, §9 and §15 — with reminders at 90, 30 and 7 days and a calendar feed.
5. Reports portfolio health. Owner import in bulk, health tiles for the portfolio, risk of confusion scored against your own marks, and analytics on the landscape.
6. Acts on conflicts. Cease-and-desist letters, co-existence agreements, oppositions and cancellations before the TTAB, marketplace takedowns — priced flat, performed by independent counsel.

Where most departments start

• Trademark Registration — Professional — $1,250 flat fee: Search, filing, routine office actions and a year of watch in one package.
• Trademark Watch Service (12 months) — $295 flat fee: Monitoring for the marks you already own.
• Comprehensive Trademark Search — $349 flat fee: Clearance with an attorney's written opinion before a launch.

Why a virtual department rather than an hourly firm

• Posted prices for every task, so the budget is known before the work starts.
• The research is free and unlimited: the register is public data and Marksy keeps it searchable.
• The docket and the watch run every day whether or not anyone remembers to ask.
• Independent licensed attorneys sign what needs signing; Marksy is not a law firm and says so on every page.

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