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Who We Help — Fintech Startups

Clear your brand. Raise with confidence.

Flat-fee trademark and copyright services for fintech founders who need to lock in their brand before a fundraise, product launch, or regulatory review puts IP on the table.

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Flat-Fee Every service, priced upfront
USPTO Federal filings, all 50 states
Direct Attorney access, no middlemen
Fintech Industry fluency, built in
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First to file wins nationwide

Why It Matters

In fintech, your brand is
part of your compliance story.

Fintech moves fast. Investors expect clean IP before a term sheet closes. Regulators notice brand inconsistencies. And in a crowded market where company names blur together, a competitor can file your name before you do and create a legal conflict right when you can least afford one.

Madison Trademark Solutions was built for exactly this environment. With a background as a regulatory consultant in fintech, Armani understands the pace, the stakes, and the due diligence questions that come up at every funding round. Flat-fee pricing, direct attorney access, and federal filings that hold up in any state.

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What Brings Fintech Founders Here

Fast markets create real IP deadlines.

Whether you are pre-launch, mid-raise, or scaling into new verticals, brand protection in fintech has a timeline. These are the situations fintech founders bring to us most often.

Pre-Raise Clearance

I need to clear and file my brand before closing a seed or Series A so IP is not flagged during investor due diligence.

Clearance Search Standard Filing

Protect My Platform Name

My app or platform name is the core of my brand. I need it trademarked before a competitor in the same vertical files it first.

Clearance Search Standard Filing

Multi-Class Filing

My company operates across financial services and technology. I need trademark coverage in both classes to fully protect the brand.

Standard Filing Premium + Monitoring

Protect My Logo

We rebranded or updated our visual identity. I need the new logo and wordmark trademarked before we roll it out publicly.

Logo Trademark Premium + Monitoring

Contractor IP Ownership

We built our product with contractors and agencies. I need to confirm who legally owns the code, UI, and brand assets they created.

Work for Hire Advisory Copyright Registration

Office Action Help

The USPTO issued an office action on my application. I need an attorney to respond before the deadline or my filing is abandoned.

Office Action (Procedural) Office Action (Substantive)

Stop a Competitor

Another fintech company is using a name that is confusingly similar to mine. Customers are already mixing us up and I need to act.

Cease & Desist Monitoring

Ongoing Monitoring

My market moves fast and new entrants appear constantly. I want to know immediately when someone files a mark that could conflict with mine.

Monitoring Premium + Monitoring

File Before Launch

We are not live yet but I want the filing date secured now so the priority is mine before we announce publicly or launch the product.

Intent-to-Use Filing Clearance Search

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A free 1-on-1 consultation with Armani. No hourly billing, no commitment required.

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Why Fintech Founders Choose Us

Legal precision. With real fintech fluency.

Sophisticated trademark and copyright services built for fintech founders who know that brand conflicts and IP gaps can kill a deal, delay a launch, or invite a regulator's attention.

Flat-Fee Pricing

Every engagement is priced upfront. You know exactly what brand protection costs before you commit. No hourly billing, no invoice creep, no surprises when the examiner sends a follow-up.

Direct Attorney Access

You work directly with Armani, not a paralegal or intake coordinator. The attorney who understands your brand is the one filing, responding, and reachable when a deadline lands in your inbox.

Fintech Industry Roots

Armani worked as a regulatory consultant in fintech before law school. She understands how your market operates, what investors scrutinize, and why brand protection cannot wait until after launch.

IP Concentration

Trademark and copyright is all we do. A practice built exclusively around Intellectual Property means your brand is not one matter among hundreds. It is the entire focus of the practice.

Services for Fintech Startups

Protect your brand at every stage.

Flat-fee trademark and copyright services most relevant to fintech founders, from pre-launch clearance through registration, monitoring, and enforcement.

Filed with the USPTO

Trademark Services

For businesses that want to own their name, logo, and brand.

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Filed with the USCO

Copyright Services

For creators who want to protect the work they've built.

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How It Works

From first call to registered mark.

A clear, four-step process designed for fintech founders who need to move fast without sacrificing legal quality or getting buried in USPTO process.

1

Book a Free Consultation

Schedule a 1-on-1 call with Armani to talk through your company, your brand, your raise timeline, and which protections make the most sense right now.

2

Clearance Search

We run a comprehensive federal, state, and common law search. You get a written legal opinion on risk and registrability before any filing fees are committed.

3

Filing & Prosecution

We prepare and file your application with the USPTO, select the right classes for your product and services, and handle any office actions the examiner sends back.

4

Registration & Protection

Your registration is confirmed. We deliver your certificate, activate monitoring if you chose Premium, and your brand is protected nationwide from that date forward.

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Armani Madison Estriplet, Esq.
Armani Madison Estriplet, Esq.
Founder & Trademark Attorney

The Attorney

She has worked in fintech. Now she protects it.

Armani Madison Estriplet worked as a regulatory consultant in the financial sector. She knows how the industry operates, what investors look for during diligence, and why brand protection is not something you can defer until after the round closes. She founded Madison Trademark Solutions to give fintech founders the same quality of IP counsel that was previously only available at firms with rates to match.

Education J.D., New England Law | Boston, IP Concentration
Bar Admission State Bar of Minnesota
Background Former Fintech Regulatory Consultant
Files With USPTO & USCO, Federal, Nationwide

"In fintech, your brand is your trust signal. Protecting it is not optional. It is part of building a company that investors and customers can rely on."

Armani Madison Estriplet, Esq.
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Fintech IP FAQ

Questions fintech founders actually ask.

Straight answers to the IP questions that come up most in conversations with fintech founders before a launch or a raise.

Yes, and increasingly so. At the seed stage, many investors focus on team and product. By the time you are raising a Series A or beyond, IP ownership is a standard line item in legal due diligence. Counsel for the fund will want to confirm that your brand is actually owned by the company, that no conflicts exist that could force a rebrand, and that any IP created by contractors or early employees has been formally assigned. A registered trademark or a pending application with a clean clearance search removes a checkpoint that can otherwise slow or complicate a close.
Potentially, yes. Trademarks are registered in specific classes that correspond to your goods and services. A fintech company offering a software platform might file in Class 42 (software as a service), while also needing coverage in Class 36 (financial services) depending on what the product actually does. Filing in only one class when your business spans two leaves part of your brand unprotected. This is one of the first things we work through in a consultation, because class selection mistakes are expensive to fix after the fact.
Yes, and for fintech companies, this is often the right move. An Intent-to-Use (ITU) application lets you file based on your genuine intention to use the mark in commerce, even before launch. Your filing date becomes your legal priority date nationwide, which means you lock in your claim before a competitor can. Once the product goes live and you begin using the mark, you file a Statement of Use to complete the registration. If you have a fundraise or announcement coming, filing before that date is especially important.
Your options depend on whether you have a registered trademark, when you started using your mark, and how similar the competing brand actually is in the context of your specific market. With a registration in hand, you have clear legal standing and options ranging from a cease and desist letter to a USPTO opposition or cancellation proceeding. Without a registration, you can still assert common law rights based on prior use, but enforcement is more costly and harder to win. If customer confusion is already happening, the first step is a consultation to assess what rights you actually have.
Not automatically. Under U.S. copyright law, independent contractors retain ownership of the work they create unless a written agreement explicitly assigns those rights to you or classifies the work as a work made for hire. This is one of the most common IP gaps investors find during due diligence on fintech companies, because so many early products are built by agencies or freelancers before formal IP policies are in place. If you are missing those agreements, the situation is fixable, but it is far easier and cheaper to address before a round closes than during one.
Full registration currently takes 8 to 12 months at the USPTO for a straightforward application, and longer if an office action is issued. But your legal priority date is established the moment you file, not when registration is complete. That means even a pending application, paired with a clean clearance search, is typically sufficient for investor due diligence. What matters to most investors is that the brand has been searched, a conflict-free filing exists, and IP ownership is documented. We can help you get there before your timeline closes.

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