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Pricing
Every path starts with the same $25 report. If you go on to a package, the $25 is credited.
Want to talk it through? After your report arrives, book a $25 consultation: a 30-minute call plus a written memo. Also credited.
Write it yourself OAR Workbook$149 106-page guide and an editable Word template. Instant download. See the workbook"If approved" means most of the fee is due only if the USPTO approves your mark. If the refusal stands, there's no success fee. USPTO government fees are separate. You stay the applicant and file from your own USPTO.gov account.
USPTO Office Action & Section 2(d) refusal help
Got a USPTO Office Action or Section 2(d) refusal? Your TRACE™ Report shows whether it can be beaten, where the examiner’s case is weakest, and which arguments to lead with, before you spend anything on a response.
Three ways to answer a refusal
01Measure it firstTRACE™ Report: where you stand, the gaps to close, written notes$2502Do it yourselfOAR Workbook: 10 steps, 18 worksheets, a Word template$14903Have it draftedResponse packages, most of the fee paid only on approval$700+Not sure which? Start with TRACE. The $25 is credited if you choose a package.
HOW TRACE™ WORKS
Filled dots show each lens score out of 10; the dashed line is 7.0. Illustrative example with fictional marks.
Why Scrivener
Over a traditional law firm, an hourly attorney or a mass-market filing company.
Many budget filing companies advertise a low fee, then add mandatory charges and subscriptions you never asked for. We publish the full fee for every package up front: what you pay at each milestone, and what is not included, such as USPTO government fees.
The TRACE™ Report
If your response doesn't take the examiner's reasoning apart piece by piece, with evidence and real precedent, the mark can be refused. A lot of good marks are lost right here — not on the law, but because the applicant argued how they feel about their brand instead of meeting the office on its own terms.
The TRACE™ Report is the blueprint that keeps that from happening. Before you write a word of your response, it settles four things.
The OAR Workbook
The Office Action Response Workbook walks you from the refusal letter to a ready-to-file response in ten steps, one worksheet at a time. Pair it with your TRACE™ Report: TRACE shows you where to fight, the workbook shows you how.
Instant download: a 106-page PDF and an editable Word response template. Paid securely through PayPal. Not legal advice.
How you pay
Traditional IP firms charge an expensive, non-refundable retainer and bill by the hour whether your mark is approved or rejected. We flip that model on its head.
“By putting the majority of our service fee behind an official USPTO approval milestone, we put our skin in the game right alongside yours.”
USPTO government filing fees are separate and paid directly to the government at submission.
A small deposit initiates the TRACE™ diagnostics and the custom drafting work behind your response.
A flat fee when the finished draft reaches you. You review the completed arguments in full and authorize them before anything is filed.
The bulk of the fee. Nothing further is owed unless the examiner withdraws the refusal and your mark moves forward.
Premium Plus guarantee
We stand behind the administrative strategy and research built into every response draft. If you select our Premium Plus package and the USPTO ultimately issues a final refusal that cannot be overcome, our Strategic Refiling Guarantee immediately activates.
We conduct deep TRACE™ diagnostics and construct a comprehensive primary response to dismantle the examiner's Section 2(d) refusal.
If a subsequent Office Action is issued, we engineer a secondary reconsideration response utilizing fresh database evidence.
If the USPTO issues a final rejection, we launch a brand-new application strategy with customized identification engineering.
We monitor, track, and administratively support your new application through publication all the way to final registration certificate delivery.
Pricing
Start with a $25 measurement, do it yourself with the workbook, or have Scrivener draft it. You pick how much help you want.
Self-file tracks end at your finished draft. Assisted tracks add filing assistance and tracking to publication. Performance tracks run all the way to registration.
All package fees are flat and exclusive of USPTO government filing fees, which must be paid separately and directly to the government. The "if approved / registered" total is deposit + on delivery + success fee. Standard tier only: if a second response is required, the Client may purchase it for a flat $500, in which case the $1,000 success fee is waived in its entirety.
In their words
Every mark has a story. See how we help self-represented brand owners resolve complex USPTO refusals.
Get my TRACE Report · $25Questions
Consultations, success fees, refunds, and who stays in control of the filing.
“Prepare the Response in two hours, client paid to receive a response from us. Your job is not to win.”
The instruction we were given by a law firm we worked for.
About us
Two hours. Not to win — just to put something on the record so the file showed the firm had answered. The applicant on the other end had no idea their one shot was being spent that way.
We kept reading those files. Most of them had real arguments in them: disclaimed wording, different buyers, different shelves, marks that no one would actually mix up. Nobody was paid to go looking.
So we built the thing we wished those files had gotten. Every refusal runs through the same 180 checks against 600 past decisions, and you see the same numbers we do — including the ones that say your case is hard. Then you decide what to do with them. Your mark, your call, our work behind it.
Get my TRACE Report · $25Your deadline is already running
Start with a TRACE™ Report so your one response counts, or work it yourself with the OAR Workbook.
Prefer to talk first?
Thirty minutes on your refusal. We compile your TRACE™ Report before the call, walk through where the examiner's case is strong and where it is not, and hand you written consultation notes to keep.
$25 · 30 minutes · Google Meet. Free if you complete the package finder. Pick any open slot; times not shown are taken.
