Trademark Applications
End-to-end federal filing: a comprehensive clearance search, correct class selection, application preparation, and USPTO filing with monitoring through to registration.
Trademark services & pricing →Intellectual Property
Strong Legal Protection for Your Intellectual Property and Creative Work
Your ideas, brand, and creative work are some of your most valuable business assets. Whether you're launching a new business, growing a nonprofit, or expanding an established organization, protecting your intellectual property helps you build trust, prevent copycats, and increase the value of your brand.
Protect what sets you apart
- Names, logos, and slogans
- Original written and visual work
- Course material and digital products
- Brand assets across state lines
- Confidential business information
The Four Types of Intellectual Property
“Intellectual property” covers four distinct legal protections. They protect different things, last for different periods, and are obtained in different ways — and most organizations need more than one.
Trademarks
Protect the brand names, logos, and slogans that identify the source of your goods or services in the marketplace. Rights build through use and are strengthened by federal registration with the USPTO, and they can last indefinitely as long as the mark stays in use and renewals are filed.
Copyrights
Protect original creative works — writing, art, photography, music, video, and software. Protection attaches automatically the moment the work is fixed in tangible form, but registration with the U.S. Copyright Office is what lets you enforce it in court and seek statutory damages.
Patents
Protect inventions, functional designs, and novel processes or systems. Patents are granted for a limited term and require filing with the USPTO before public disclosure in most cases. We don’t file patents, but we can point you to the right resource.
Trade Secrets
Protect confidential business information that derives its value from staying private — formulas, methods, customer lists, pricing. There is nothing to register; protection depends entirely on the steps you take to keep the information secret.
Legacy Path Law provides trademark and copyright services. For patents and trade-secret programs we’ll point you to the right specialist.
Trademark Services
Protecting the name, logo, and slogan that identify your organization in the marketplace.
Trademark Renewals
Keep federal protection active. Section 8 declarations of continued use, Section 15 declarations of incontestability, ten-year renewals, and deadline tracking so nothing lapses.
Renewals & maintenance →Office Action Responses
Strategic responses to USPTO refusals — likelihood-of-confusion and descriptiveness refusals, specimen problems, and examiner objections — drafted to keep your application moving.
Office Action help →Copyright Services
Registering the original work you’ve created, so the protection you already hold is one you can actually enforce.
Copyright Registration
Register your original works with the U.S. Copyright Office to strengthen your legal rights and unlock remedies that are unavailable without registration, including statutory damages and attorney’s fees.
Ask about copyright registration →Works we register
- Literary and written works
- Art, photography, and design
- Music and sound recordings
- Software and digital content
Not sure whether what you’ve made is registrable? Send it to us and we’ll tell you.
Trademark or copyright, which do you need?
These two protections are often confused, and the difference matters. A trademark protects the things that identify the source of your goods or services in the marketplace: your business name, logo, and slogan. A copyright protects original creative expression: the words in your book or course, your photography, your designs, your music.
A single business often needs both. The name on your workbook is trademark territory; the content inside it is copyright territory. If you're not sure which applies to what you've built, that's a good first conversation to have, and it's usually a short one.
With the right protection, you can grow with confidence.
Knowing your brand and original work are protected for years to come starts with a conversation.