For performers and studios with registered stage names or brand marks

Registered once. Cancelled six years later.

Byline holds each registered stage name’s date and classes, puts the year five-to-six declaration and the year nine-to-ten renewal on a calendar with their grace periods and fees — and will not sign the yearly check while any window is open with nothing filed.

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The problem

The reminder went to an old address.

A US trademark registration only stays alive if its owner files a declaration of use between the fifth and sixth year, and a renewal between the ninth and tenth and every ten years after. Miss the window and the six months of grace, and the registration is cancelled — with no way to revive it. A performer’s name has to be applied for again from scratch, by which time somebody else may hold it.

Years 5–6

The first declaration of use is due between the fifth and sixth year after registration.

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$325

per class on time, $425 per class in the six-month grace period — for each section filed.

USPTO post-registration FAQs →

No revival

A registration cancelled for a missed declaration or renewal cannot be reinstated. A new application is needed.

USPTO post-registration FAQs →

Will not sign the yearly check with a window open and nothing filed.

Not a reminder. Sign this year’s check refuses, with each mark named, while any mark’s window is open or in grace with nothing filed, or a mark has been cancelled and not recorded as let go on purpose. A filing before its window opens, or after its grace, is refused. There is no override.

How it works

Register once, keep it for good

Add each mark

The mark, its registration number, the date and the classes.

Watch the windows

Every declaration and renewal window, when it opens and closes, the grace, and what it costs for the classes you keep.

File and sign

Record each filing as you make it. Once a year, sign the check — it will not sign while a name is at risk.

What it will never do

It keeps the dates. The name is yours.

Byline holds the mark and its registration details, not the person behind it.

No legal names.The mark as registered. Not the performer’s own name.

It does not file.You file with the USPTO. Byline records the date and the classes kept.

US registrations.Other countries run their own clocks.

It never touches a payment.The fee for Byline is flat and it is for software.

Pricing

Priced per mark, by the year

A name you have registered is worth keeping.

Mark

$29/month

One registered mark, billed yearly.

Declaration and renewal windows
Grace and fees per class
Yearly check gate, no override

Most studios

Five marks

$99/month

Up to five marks, billed yearly.

Everything in Mark
All marks on one calendar
Export for your attorney

Catalogue

$249/month

Up to twenty-five marks, billed yearly.

Everything in Five marks
Incontestability tracking
Priority support

Flat fee, billed yearly. Your bank statement says Byline Software. Your licence key is emailed to you within two working days of payment.

Checkout is our own bitcoin server, not a card processor — nobody we had to apply to and nobody who can close the account. The button takes you straight to it. Give your email address there — that is where your key is sent.

Questions

The ones we actually get asked

Can I file the declaration early?

No. The USPTO does not accept it before the window opens, and Byline refuses to record it.

What if we are already in the grace period?

File now; it still counts, at the higher fee. Byline shows the grace fee for the classes you keep.

What if the registration was cancelled?

It cannot be revived. Apply again, or record in Byline that you let it go on purpose so the check can be signed.

Is this legal advice?

No. It is a calendar that argues with you.

What do I actually get when I pay?

The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, emailed to the address you give at checkout within two working days. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.

The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.

Open the demo on check day

Five names. One renewed in February. One young. One let go after a rebrand. And two that will not let this year’s check be signed: Scarlet Vane’s declaration window opened in August, and Northlight’s closed in August and has until February in grace.

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