Trademarks
™ or ®: which one you’ve earned
Anyone can put ™ after a name they use. The ® is a promise that the government registered it, and using it early can sink an application. Here’s the line between them.
Geneva Yarbrough5 min read
Flat-fee IP law, by video
Copycats can get their own ideas
Trademarks, copyrights, patents and licenses for founders and makers. One price, quoted in writing before we start, and every meeting on a video call, wherever you work.
Six-minute talk
The two little symbols people get wrong
Geneva explains when you can put ™ after your brand, when you’ve earned the ®, and the mistake that gets applications refused. Rather read? It’s written up as a guide too.
Geneva Yarbrough on when to use ™ and when to use ®
Talk by Geneva Yarbrough, founding partner
Guides
Read this before launch day
Short guides from the three of us, for people who make things and want to keep them.
PatentsShowing off your invention starts a one-year clock
A demo video, a crowdfunding page or a booth at a trade show can count as telling the world. In the U.S. you get a year from then to file. In much of the world, you get no time at all.
Joon Baek6 min read
Practice
Launch. Publish. Prototype. Scale.
We sort our work by where your business is, not by statute. Find your stage; each one has its flat fees on the page.
- 01Trademarks
Launch
Search the name before the sign, the domain and the merch are paid for. Then file it, so it’s yours in all fifty states.
Trademark work - 02Copyrights
Publish
Register the songs, photos, patterns and code you put out, and get signed papers for the work you paid someone else to make.
Copyright work - 03Patents
Prototype
File a provisional before the demo, the trade show or the crowdfunding page goes up, then decide on the full application within the year.
Patent work - 04Licensing
Scale
Let a brand, a maker or a shop use what you made, on terms that pay you on time and end when they should.
Licensing work
Got a name, a song or a gadget?
Tell us on a twenty-minute video call. You’ll hang up knowing what the job takes and what it costs.
Our fees. Government filing fees are extra and passed on at cost.
20 min
First call, by video1 fee
Per job, in writing first