USPTO Office Action Response

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USPTO Office Action Response for Trademark Registration

L4SB will respond to your Office Action according to the issues you select. Before buying this service, you should have had L4SB review your USPTO Office Action first and advise you on what is needed to proceed. If you haven’t done this step, please go to Evaluate Trademark Office Actions & Declarations first.

What’s Included:

  • Case handled by an actual trademark attorney
  • Prepare professional response to the USPTO
  • Rush service to meet deadlines, if response due within two (2) weeks (additional charges may apply)

What’s NOT Included:

  • If your trademark already has an “Attorney of Record” (or AOR), the USPTO will refuse our submissions related to your trademark, without submitting a “Correspondence and Attorney/Domestic Representative Forms” (or CAR Form).  This can be easy or hard, depending on a few factors outside our control, including whether your previous attorney is responsive.  This can impact our ability to meet deadlines, and unless you pay the Option for us to handle the CAR Form, this will be your responsibility.  We are not responsible for any missed deadlines associated with the AOR or CAR Form.
  • Rush service is NOT included, unless you select it.  If you have a deadline within a week of your order, you must pay for the rush service.

One of the advantages of hiring an actual trademark attorney (like we have at L4SB), is that we help clients navigate fraud and problems with the USPTO.  The USPTO, however, seems to have a lot of problems associated with fraud for clients who are not represented by an attorney.

This includes, apparently, people pretending to be attorneys.

Therefore, in 2025, the USPTO implemented more strict requirements for sending in forms related to existing trademarks that have a current “Attorney of Record” (or AOR) identified.  Specifically, the USPTO will ignore incoming forms and correspondence, unless it comes directly from either the owner or the existing AOR.  As trademark attorneys, the USPTO will ignore us, unless we are designated the AOR for an existing trademark.

If your trademark does not have an AOR, then this is not a problem.  We’ll become the AOR, and work with you as appropriate.

If, however, your trademark DOES HAVE an existing AOR, we will need you to tell the USPTO to revoke your existing AOR and substitute us as your AOR.  You do this by submitting a CAR Form to the USPTO.  We cannot do this ourselves, without your authorization.  Getting authorization is a pain.  We send in the form.  You then need to approve it and submit it back.  Once that’s done, we need to review it, and then submit it to your old AOR.  Your AOR must then approve it, send it back to us.  Then, we need to submit it to the USPTO.

If anything doesn’t work in this process — like your old attorney is dead or doesn’t otherwise respond — it can really hold things up.  This is why we cannot be responsible for AOR/CAR related delays or impacts to deadlines.  We also have a small fee to deal with this.