A trademark assignment is required any time you need to change the owner of a trademark registration from one party to another.

A trademark registration has a title, like a house or a car. To be valid and enforceable, it’s necessary for a trademark registration to be officially owned by the entity or individual that is using the trademark in commerce.

Any time a trademark changes ownership, a trademark assignment should be filed. Examples of changes in ownership include if you sell your trademark by itself, if sell your business along with all of the businesses intellectual property, if you gift your trademark to someone else, or if you change the corporate structure of your business.

Yes. A trademark assignment should be filed with the USPTO as part of the sales process so that the tile to the trademark registration is officially transferred from the original owner to the new owner.

It is common for new businesses to register a trademark listing an individual person as the owner before they officially incorporate. In those cases, it will be necessary to file a trademark assignment to update the owner from the individual founder to the new business entity.

Markavo charges a $199 service fee to perform the work for you. The government charges $40 per trademark registration transferred.

Most assignments are filed within 3-4 business days after receiving payment and all required information and government fees from the client.

To have Markavo file a Trademark Assignment you start the project by paying the legal fee here: https://www.markavo.com/checkout/trademark-assignment

Several moments after payment clears, you will be emailed an intake form where you will give us additional information about your trademark to be assigned.

Right before your attorney files the trademark assignment, you will be charged the government filing fees to the payment method we have on file.

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