Trademark Brokers: What to Look for

Cartoon of a trademark broker by Jeremy Eche.

The pickings are slim. There aren’t a lot of trademark brokers out there because trademark selling is a niche market. Most trademark sellers aren’t just selling trademarks; they’re selling entire businesses. Thus there are many business brokers and few brokers of trademarks. Because of this, somebody looking for a trademark broker is probably going to […]

Why Is Every Trademark Marketplace Awful?

Green and purple registered trademark symbol illustration signed by Jeremy Eche. This is what you buy in a trademark marketplace.

Everybody knows trademarks are worth money, even if they haven’t thought about it much. When Coach bought rival handbag company Kate Spade for $2.4 billion in 2017, they presumably weren’t paying all this money just to get access to factories and designers; they were mainly paying for the “Kate Spade” name and the goodwill consumers […]