Built for the way Miami builds brands
Miami is the fastest-growing brand city in the country. Wynwood and the Design District are full of independent fashion, beauty, and creative studios. Brickell and Edgewater anchor the city’s fintech, Web3, and SaaS scene, much of it in the wave that arrived during Miami Tech Week and never left. Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, and South Beach are home to a deep hospitality and lifestyle layer, from restaurant groups to boutique fitness to wellness brands. And Miami sits at the front door of Latin America, which means a steady flow of LATAM founders launching U.S.-facing brands and U.S. founders launching cross-border ones.
Every one of those founders eventually faces the same federal hurdle. Your name, your logo, and your creative work need real protection, and the USPTO does not care which neighborhood, beach, or coast you launched from. We help Miami founders file trademarks, register copyrights, and build IP portfolios that hold up when the market gets crowded. Flat fees. Plain language. A process built for founders moving fast in a city that never slows down.
Why Miami founders call us
Miami has plenty of large IP firms downtown and in Brickell. Most of them are excellent. Most of them also bill hourly, charge for every email, and structure their business around corporate portfolio work for established companies, not founder-friendly trademark work for a brand that just launched on Instagram.
We are different by design. Single point of contact means you talk to the attorney working on your file, not a paralegal four steps removed. Flat-fee pricing means you know the total cost before you sign. ID Manual first means we use pre-approved USPTO descriptions to keep your government fees at the lowest tier. And fully remote means a Wynwood fashion founder, a Brickell crypto team, and a Coral Gables restaurant group all get the same treatment, on the same timeline, without anyone needing to drive over a causeway.
Who we help in Miami
We work with brand owners across Miami’s most active categories. Below are the most common engagements. If your situation is not listed, it is probably still a fit. See all who we help.
Scaling Brands
Miami fashion, beauty, and lifestyle brands hitting growth where the gaps in their IP show up. Multi-class filings, monitoring, and international expansion strategy.
Small Businesses
Restaurants, hotels, boutique fitness, and retail concepts across Miami protecting names, taglines, and signature offerings in one of the most competitive hospitality markets in the U.S.
Startups
Brickell and Wynwood founders, including the wave that arrived during Miami Tech Week, locking down product and company names before the seed round, the Series A, or the public launch.
Fintech & Web3
Brickell fintech, crypto, and Web3 founders protecting product names, logos, and trade dress in two of the most aggressively-filed categories in the USPTO.
Artists & Designers
Independent artists, illustrators, and design studios in Wynwood, Little Haiti, and the Design District registering copyrights and protecting visual marks.
Developers & Software Creators
Indie developers and small SaaS teams across Miami’s growing tech corridor protecting product names, logos, app icons, and source code as creative works.
Services for Miami clients
Most Miami engagements start with one of the five services below. Fashion and beauty brands tend to start with clearance and multi-class filings. Hospitality groups start with concept name and trade dress filings. Web3 founders often need fast clearance work before a token or platform launch. We scope and price every service up front, before any work starts. See all trademark services or see all copyright services.
The process
Our part of the process takes about 7 to 10 days from intake to USPTO submission. From there, the USPTO controls the timeline. As of 2026, expect 8 to 14 months from filing to a registration certificate, assuming no substantive issues.
Strategy call
A 30-minute call to understand your brand, your goods and services, and your timeline. We confirm scope and flat-fee pricing before any work starts.
Clearance search
A Go/No-Go search across federal, state, and common-law sources. You receive a written report explaining risk level and recommended next steps.
Class and description selection
We map your business to the right USPTO classes using ID Manual descriptions. The lowest-fee, lowest-friction path through the application. Read more in our breakdown of why the ID Manual matters.
Application drafted and filed
We draft your application, walk you through it for sign-off, and submit it directly to the USPTO. You receive your serial number the same day.
Examination and publication
8 to 10 months later, your application is reviewed by a USPTO examiner. If approved, it is published in the Official Gazette for a 30-day opposition period.
Registration
If no one opposes, the USPTO issues your registration certificate. Your trademark is enforceable nationwide for 10 years, renewable for as long as you use it in commerce.
Flat-fee pricing
Trademark filing should not be a surprise bill. Below is the most common engagement, a single-class federal trademark application. Multi-class filings (common for fashion, beauty, and hospitality groups), copyright registrations, and complex matters are quoted up front before any work begins.
Note: USPTO government filing fees ($350 per class as of 2026) are billed separately and paid directly to the USPTO at the time of filing. Custom descriptions outside the ID Manual incur a $200 per class USPTO surcharge. We use ID Manual descriptions wherever possible to keep your fees at the lowest tier.
Miami FAQs
The questions we hear most from Miami founders before they engage. Do not see yours? Send it over. We will answer it on the consultation call.
No. Trademarks and copyrights are governed by federal law. The USPTO and the U.S. Copyright Office have nationwide jurisdiction, and any U.S.-licensed attorney can represent you on a federal filing regardless of which state either of you is in. We work with Miami clients entirely remotely. Video consultations, electronic signatures, and email-based status updates.
Probably yes. Fashion and beauty brands typically need protection across several classes: Class 25 (apparel), Class 18 (handbags and leather goods), Class 14 (jewelry), Class 3 (cosmetics, fragrance, personal care), and Class 35 (online retail). Hospitality concepts often add Class 43 (restaurant, hotel, bar services). We map your actual revenue streams and your near-term roadmap, then file in the classes that match. Filing in the wrong classes leaves you exposed; filing in too many wastes money on classes you cannot defend.
Yes. We work with founders based across Latin America who are launching U.S.-facing brands or U.S. entities. The federal trademark process is the same regardless of where you live. The applicant on the trademark just needs to be a legal entity that owns the mark, typically a U.S. C-Corp or LLC, often a Delaware or Florida entity. If you have not formed a U.S. entity yet, we can walk through the timing on the consultation call so you file the trademark under the right name. Process is fully remote, and we can run consultations across LATAM time zones.
Not at all. Whether you are in Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, Brickell, Wynwood, the Design District, Aventura, Doral, Fort Lauderdale, or anywhere else in the South Florida metro, the federal trademark process is identical. We work with founders and businesses across the entire region the same way. Remote consultations, electronic filings, and a single point of contact.
Florida offers state-level trademark registration through the Department of State, but it only protects you within Florida. Most Miami businesses sell beyond state lines, whether on Shopify, in wholesale, on Amazon, or to out-of-state and international customers. For almost every brand we work with, a federal USPTO registration is the right choice because it gives you nationwide protection. We will walk through whether state registration makes sense for your specific situation on the consultation call.
Yes. The most relevant classes for Web3 brands are Class 9 (downloadable software, including wallets and authentication), Class 36 (financial services, including crypto exchange and custody), Class 41 (online entertainment, including NFT-based games and content), and Class 42 (SaaS, blockchain platforms, and developer tools). The USPTO has gotten more sophisticated about Web3 filings over the past few years, but it is still a category where descriptions get scrutinized. Using ID Manual language wherever possible keeps your filing clean.
Yes, and you probably should. A Section 1(b) Intent-to-Use application lets you reserve your trademark with the USPTO before you have a single sale. You lock in a priority date today, which means anyone who tries to use a similar name after that date is standing behind you in line. We file ITU applications regularly for Miami founders who are still in product development, soft-launch, or pre-launch. Read more in our guide to ITU applications.
Our part, from intake to USPTO submission, takes about 7 to 10 days. After that, the USPTO controls the timeline. As of 2026, expect 8 to 10 months to first examination, another month or two for publication and opposition, and then registration. Total: typically 10 to 14 months from filing to a registration certificate, assuming no substantive issues.