Our Experience with Trademark Lawyer Katrina Fama and MarkATLaw.com
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Businesses seeking trademark registration in the United States should proceed with caution when approached by aggressive online trademark lawyers promising “guaranteed” results.
After filing trademark applications in the United States, it is common to receive large numbers of unsolicited emails from attorneys and trademark agencies claiming they can take over the application, resolve Office Actions, and secure registration of the mark.
One of the firms that contacted us was the New York-based trademark lawyer Katrina Fama, who also uses the name “Katerina Marie” on her website, MarkATLaw.com.
At the time, our company already possessed substantial prior rights connected to the trademark in question, including an established UK trademark registration together with extensive historical commercial use and common law rights associated with the mark.
Despite this, our original U.S. trademark application encountered several Office Actions and was ultimately refused.
Following that refusal, Katrina Fama contacted us and represented that she could re-file and successfully secure registration of the trademark. She offered multiple service tiers, including a premium package costing approximately $1,399 plus processing fees and official USPTO filing fees. The service was marketed in a manner that strongly conveyed that registration would be secured and that Office Actions would be professionally handled throughout the process.
Our experience was extremely disappointing.
Communication throughout the matter was poor. We frequently had to initiate contact ourselves simply to obtain updates regarding the status of the application. At one point, after we ourselves discovered that an Office Action had been issued by the USPTO, we contacted Katrina Fama regarding it. During that exchange, it appeared she did not recognise or recall the matter and requested evidence relating to the trademark application that we believed should already have been fully familiar to counsel handling the file.
Most concerningly, we later discovered that the trademark application had been declared abandoned by the USPTO in March 2026.
We were not proactively informed that the application had become abandoned.
Instead, we discovered this ourselves.
Following that discovery, we have now requested a refund of the money paid.
To be clear, no ethical trademark lawyer should guarantee registration of a trademark in the United States. The USPTO process is complex and uncertain, and applications may fail for many legitimate legal reasons. However, clients are entitled to expect professional management, proper monitoring of deadlines, proactive communication, familiarity with their file, and competent handling of Office Actions.
In our opinion, those standards were not met in this case.
This article reflects our direct experience dealing with Katrina Fama and MarkATLaw.com and based upon what occurred in our matter, we would strongly advise businesses to exercise caution before engaging this lawyer.
When choosing trademark counsel, businesses should ask direct questions:
• Who is actually responsible for monitoring deadlines?
• How are Office Actions managed?
• Will updates be proactive or only provided when requested?
• What happens if an application becomes abandoned?
• Is there a written refund policy?
• What specifically is meant by the word “guaranteed”?
A trademark is often one of the most valuable assets a business possesses. Entrusting that responsibility to the wrong representative can result not only in wasted fees, but also in lost time, lost opportunities, and serious damage to an established brand.
