SEC 8 · 15 · 9
Trademark Renewal & Maintenance
Section 8, 15 and 9 filings tracked and prepared on schedule, because a missed maintenance deadline cancels the registration outright.
A federal registration is not permanent. It has to be maintained on a fixed schedule, and the USPTO does not send a reminder you can rely on. Miss a window and the registration is cancelled — not suspended, cancelled — and you start again from zero with a new filing date and whatever conflicts have appeared in the meantime.
We docket every deadline in your portfolio and prepare each filing when it comes due, so maintenance stops being something you have to remember.
What is included
Section 8 declaration
Due between the fifth and sixth year after registration. Declares continued use and requires a current specimen for each class.
Section 15 incontestability
Optional but valuable. After five years of continuous use it sharply limits the grounds on which anyone can challenge your mark.
Section 9 renewal
Due at the tenth year and every ten years after, filed together with a Section 8 declaration.
Specimen preparation
Maintenance filings are refused over bad specimens more often than anything else. We check yours against current examination practice first.
Deadline docketing
Every date in your portfolio tracked, with reminders well before the window opens and before the grace period closes.
Class-by-class review
If you have stopped using the mark on some of the goods, we tell you what has to be deleted rather than let a false declaration go in.
How it works
- 01
Send us the registration numbers
We pull the current status and deadlines for every mark you own.
- 02
We docket the schedule
Section 8, 15 and 9 dates are calendared, including grace periods and their surcharges.
- 03
We prepare ahead of the window
Well before each deadline we collect the specimen, confirm which goods are still in use, and draft the declaration.
- 04
We file and confirm
The filing goes in, and you get written confirmation with the updated status.
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