Erik K Pelton

APRIL 8, 2024

Our firm has helped thousands of applications become registered. The post USPTO Trademark Application Timeline and Steps appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Experienced trademark attorneys know every step of the way because we deal with it repetitively over and over again.

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 11, 2024

There are a lot of trademark lawyers out there, and different firms can be a fit for different trademark owners depending on the client’s needs. If I were hiring a firm, Here are some things to consider. The following is an edited transcript of my video Measuring the Competition. Do they have a laser focus on trademarks?

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Erik K Pelton

JUNE 10, 2023

Last week, Erik provided comments to the USPTO’s Trademark Public Advisory Committee regarding proposed changes (increases) to many trademark fees. Below are the remarks Erik presented at the hearing last week. Below are the remarks Erik presented at the hearing last week. Pelton of Erik M.

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Erik K Pelton

JUNE 13, 2023

Learn more about the ways that our firm gives back and works to reduce its footprint, all while we continue to make trademarks bloom. The post EMP&A’s Seeds of Sustainability appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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Erik K Pelton

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Here at Erik M. Pelton & Associates, we really believe in practicing what we preach. As a small business law firm, we have taken our own advice and we have more than a dozen trademark registrations in our name (17 registrations as of fall 2022).

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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 9, 2023

The following is an edited transcript of my video Protecting a Law Firm Brand. Over the years, we’ve had the good fortune to work with all types of businesses, including many law firms, to protect their brands. Law firm brands can be protected just like any other business.

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Erik K Pelton

OCTOBER 21, 2021

A lot of elements going into making our firm what we are and making it successful. The things that make up our firm as a whole include people, experience, education, practicing what we preach, and much more. The post What makes a trademark law firm successful? appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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Erik K Pelton

JULY 29, 2021

Lawyerist Lab member Erik Pelton shares his experience with sprucing up his branding and how that helped with his client acquisition process. If today’s podcast resonates with you and you haven’t read The Small Firm Roadmap yet, get the first chapter right now for free!

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Erik K Pelton

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Erik shares the history of the law firm brand, including some mistakes made along the way as the EMP&A brand evolved. The post Even Trademark Lawyers Make Branding Mistakes appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. No one is immune from potential branding errors.

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Erik K Pelton

AUGUST 6, 2020

Earlier this week, our firm submitted brief comments regarding the USPTO’s proposed adjustment (note, there are no decreases proposed – only increases and new fees) rulemaking. Our comments and those of others can be found on Regulations.gov at: [link]. the impact that the fee increases will have on small businesses.

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Erik K Pelton

AUGUST 17, 2022

Have you ever wondered how our firm at EMP&A manages several hundred trademark filings each year? Over the past 15 years we have developed an amazing tool, called Tracker, which is exclusive to our firm and for trademarks – and is now patent pending! Listen for more on what makes this tool so special.

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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 12, 2022

Our firm submitted comments this week generally supportive of this change, and the environmental benefits, while raising some questions about the amount of savings for the USPTO that will result, and how those savings will be spent. The following are the comments of the firm of Erik M. About Erik M.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 31, 2021

By Erik Pelton®. In December, the USPTO sanctioned a Chinese firm that has been involved in more than 15,000 filings for fraudulent activities and ordered all of their filings to be terminated. For more, read the article Olivia Muller and I recently wrote for the American Bar Association: The Growing Threat of Trademark Scams.

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Erik K Pelton

APRIL 25, 2022

I am here to tell you about a personal experience, something that happened about 20 years ago, and I don’t think think I have ever discussed it openly as I’m about to today. When I launched my firm in December of 1999, it was originally called TMarksman , and had a logo. But we rebranded to Erik M.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 20, 2022

© 2022 Erik M. Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Erik Pelton® has been making trademarks bloom since 1999 ® as the founder of Erik M. Pelton & Associates ®, a boutique trademark law firm in Falls Church, Virginia. The firm has registered more than 4,000 U.S.

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Erik K Pelton

APRIL 12, 2021

I think my senses are particularly heightened when I’m traveling and outside of my normal routine around town, work and home. My law firm is maybe another good example. The name Erik M. The post Great Trademarks Are Everywhere, Even in the Trash appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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Erik K Pelton

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

At our firm, we aim to practice what we preach. It is exclusive to our firm. The post EMP&A’s Unique Patent Pending Tool appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. The following is an edited transcript of my video Our Unique Patent Pending Tool at EMP&A.

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Erik K Pelton

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In my case, that’s the firm’s business name, Eric M. Pelton & Associates, PLLC. The post Proper Copyright Notice appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. You can see what proper copyright notice looks like on any of the content on my website, my visuals, etc.

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 4, 2021

I am working to tackle this scam problem – that could be duping millions of dollars from IP protection budgets of small businesses – from as many angles as I can: communication, education, articles, website, online forums, FOIA requests, collaborating with other law firms, and more.

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Erik K Pelton

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I’m the first to admit I come to this from a bias, but my bias is based on 20 years of looking at people filing trademark applications—many of them who filed without attorneys—and seeing the results or lack of results that come from that. appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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Erik K Pelton

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

When I launched the firm in December of 1999, the first applications I filed were on paper, and this provides me the opportunity now to look both forward and backward on this topic. The post How Trademarks Registrations Have Migrated To The Cloud appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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Erik K Pelton

JANUARY 20, 2022

For example, a quote from the study states, “We also show that new trademark intensity contains important information about firms’ future profitability, and that even financial experts such as analysts do not appear to fully understand the value relevance of this signal in their forecasts.”

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 28, 2020

By Erik Pelton®. © 2020 Erik M. Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Erik Pelton® has been making trademarks bloom since 1999 ® as the founder of Erik M. Pelton & Associates ®, a boutique trademark law firm in Falls Church, Virginia. All Rights Reserved.

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Erik K Pelton

JUNE 13, 2023

Our firm recently had success with an appeal in a matter for a mark called Evolve Life Systems, and I share some of the documents demonstrating the appeals process here. The post TTAB: Anatomy of a Trademark Appeal appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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Erik K Pelton

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Many law firms will generate reports for you with a summary of what they found using a database specialist that goes out and every month, crawls the databases, highlights findings. The post The Benefits of Trademark Monitoring appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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Erik K Pelton

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

They pay the big law firms. I’m always working on spreading the message of trademark protection to more entrepreneurs and thinking about that all the time. The second important thing I learned in law school that I apply every day in the world of trademarks is that billing by the hour—which is what most law firms do—is silly.

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Erik K Pelton

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

I’m confident of that because if you view the many, many dozens and dozens of reviews on Yelp, Google, Facebook, wherever else you will find reviews online, you’ll see that the overwhelming majority of them for our firm are outstanding. This is how we partner with our clients for great success.

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Erik K Pelton

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Trademark fee proposal comments at USPTO hearing by Erik Pelton focus on small business impact (Sept. Prior to enacting the Final Rule, the USPTO allowed individuals, firms, agencies, organizations, and bar associations to submit comments about the proposed fee increases. 23, 2019).

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Erik K Pelton

AUGUST 24, 2020

So for example, our law firm has a portfolio. appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Generally, that’s because they have product lines with different product names and a creative name and a trademark registration to go with each of the names in that product line.

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Erik K Pelton

MAY 12, 2021

Unless you were working with a certain group of law firms, you had to have a registration in order to be in the Amazon Brand Registry. The post Amazon Brand Registry for trademark applicants appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Look for the Connect With Us button on the top right.

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Erik K Pelton

MARCH 11, 2022

Comments of Erik M. Pelton & Associates, PLLC Regarding the FTC’s Proposed “Trade Regulation Rule on Impersonation of Government and Businesses”. . As a trademark law firm, we represent a wide array of clients but predominantly focus on helping small business owners protect their intellectual property.

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Erik K Pelton

JULY 26, 2022

That software is another thing that law firms like ours can use that operates behind the scenes, but helps the entire application process. The post Trademark Applications: What You See vs. What You Don’t appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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Erik K Pelton

JUNE 29, 2022

And somebody has to sign the declaration associated with the application. The address that’s associated with the owner will be in the public record. appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC. Phone numbers that go into applications are in the public record.

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Erik K Pelton

JULY 28, 2020

Small businesses in general don’t have an association or a stable of lawyers to work on comments to proposals like these. The post Details on USPTO’s trademark fee increase proposal – public comments due by August 3rd appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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