Complaint Review: Patent & Trademark Agents / Intellectual Property

By chance I met up with a few other small company owners & were sharing our experiences about our attempts at registering our trademarks and patents, and using Patent & Trademark agents in private practice to do these taske as we knew nothing about this, but considered it important.

Consistently it seems the bills from these people are over what they quoted. This is particularly annoying when one is a small company & does not have a tree that grows money in the garden. One gets the impression that once you have given these people a job, they have your intellectual property in their hands, & hold it to ransom.

They also try to make you feel stupid with their "but its so complicated" when in fact its bread & butter clerical work. (one is always wiser after the fact!)

It would be helpful & interesting to hear just how many others have had similar experiences,

Edward k
London
United Kingdom