Fifty Dollars a Signature: The Continued Rise of Trademark Filing Mills
Fifty dollars a signature. That’s what one company offered me for putting my name, and my law license, on up to 150 U.S. trademark applications a month. I said no. A few attorneys who get that same offer don’t. What They Were Actually Asking For This wasn’t really an offer to hire an attorney. It was an offer to rent one. Click approve, and their system would enter all the application information and file with the USPTO, no real review required beyond that single click. Three to five minutes per case, they told me, and the status updates would take… Read More
