Austin trademark attorney.
Flat-fee trademark clearance and registration for Austin startups, brands, and businesses, from an attorney with an Austin office who spent four years here as a Longhorn and doesn't bill by the hour for filings.
Trademark search, registration, and enforcement for Austin businesses.
Vargas IP provides trademark clearance searches, USPTO trademark registration, office action responses, and trademark enforcement for Austin startups, software companies, breweries and distilleries, restaurants, and consumer brands. Flat fees for searches and filings; hourly for disputes.
Trademark clearance search
Before you file, a comprehensive search of USPTO records, Texas state registrations, and common-law uses to identify existing marks that could affect registration, with a written assessment of registrability. $1,000 flat fee, credited toward filing. For a name already in use, an infringement opinion (from $2,000) adds a deeper search and a written opinion on whether that specific use is likely to infringe.USPTO trademark registration
A federal trademark application prepared and filed by an attorney: the correct owner and filing basis, the right classes, and a goods-and-services description written to fit your Austin business and leave room to grow. Word marks, logos, and slogans. $2,500 all-inclusive, with the search and office action responses included.Office action responses
When the USPTO examining attorney refuses or questions an application, a written legal response that argues the point or amends the application. Included in the all-inclusive package, and available on its own from $1,250 for substantive refusals if you filed yourself or through an online filing service; each response is quoted after review.Trademark enforcement and litigation
Cease-and-desist letters sent and answered, oppositions and cancellations before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and trademark and patent litigation in federal court. Billed hourly against a retainer, with Thomas handling the matter personally.An Austin office, and the whole metro.
Vargas IP has an office in Austin. Thomas meets Austin clients there by appointment, or at your office if that is more convenient, and handles the remainder of each matter by video, phone, and email.
The practice serves the whole metro: downtown and the Domain, East Austin, South Congress and South Lamar, the tech corridors in North Austin and Round Rock, and out to Cedar Park, Pflugerville, Georgetown, Kyle, Buda, San Marcos, and Dripping Springs.
All areas servedTypes of Austin businesses we serve.
Trademark clearance, registration, and enforcement for businesses of every size across the Austin metro, including:
Flat-fee trademark pricing for Austin businesses.
Four flat-fee options, quoted up front, and no hourly billing on trademark filings. Every engagement starts with a free conversation so you know exactly what you're getting before you pay anything.
All-Inclusive Trademark
Everything from first search to registration, handled start to finish.
- Comprehensive clearance search — identify potential conflicts before you invest in the name
- USPTO application filing — prepared and filed by an attorney
- Office action responses — included, so an examiner's pushback never becomes a surprise bill
Clearance Search
Answers one question before you spend on signage, packaging, or a filing: can this name be registered?
- Federal, state, and common-law search for potentially conflicting marks
- Written assessment of registrability and potential conflicts
- Credit toward Option 1 if you decide to file
Infringement Opinion
Answers a different question: is using this name likely to infringe someone else's mark? For names already in use, or about to be.
- Deeper search of federal, state, common-law, and marketplace uses
- Written infringement opinion on your specific use, not just registrability
- Recommendations — proceed, adjust, or rebrand, with the reasoning
Office Action Response
Received a refusal after filing yourself or through an online filing service? Send the office action and get a flat quote before any work begins.
- Substantive refusals from $1,250 — likelihood of confusion, descriptiveness, and other refusals that need a legal argument
- Quoted to the office action — they vary widely in what they raise, so the price depends on what the examiner said
- No prior filing with Vargas IP needed — Thomas can also take over the application as attorney of record
Payment plans available through Affirm.
Flat fees cover attorney services for one mark in one class; additional classes are quoted up front. USPTO government filing fees are not included. Oppositions, cancellations, and appeals are not included in any flat fee and are quoted separately if they arise. A clearance search assesses registrability and identifies potential conflicts; it is not an infringement opinion. An infringement opinion addresses a specific use and is a separate engagement, starting at $2,000 and quoted after review. Office action responses start at $1,250 for substantive refusals; because office actions vary widely in what they raise, each response is quoted individually after review. See full pricing, including hourly disputes.
Questions from Austin businesses.
Do you have an office in Austin?
Yes. Vargas IP has offices in both San Antonio and Austin. Austin meetings are by appointment, and most of the work after the first meeting happens by video, phone, and email.
Can we meet in person in Austin?
Yes, by appointment at the Austin office, or at your office if that is more convenient. Most Austin clients do the first meeting in person and the rest by video and email.
Do you work with startups that haven't launched yet?
Yes. Pre-launch clearance searches and intent-to-use applications are a regular part of the practice, and the flat fees are the same. Thomas also prepares the statement of use once the product is live, and works with founders and their counsel on getting the mark filed under the right entity.
Do you handle Austin trademark disputes?
Yes. Cease-and-desist letters in either direction, oppositions and cancellations before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and infringement litigation are handled at $345 an hour against a retainer.
What does a trademark cost for an Austin business?
The same flat fees apply everywhere Vargas IP works: $1,000 for a clearance search, or $2,500 for the all-inclusive package covering the search, the USPTO filing, and every office action response. USPTO government fees are additional and depend on the number of classes. The flat fee is the same whether you're in Austin or San Antonio, and you'll have the exact number before any work begins.
Ready to protect your Austin brand?
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San Antonio, TX 78258Principal office · Austin office by appointment