Description

I contacted an online company, Brooks Dennis LLC, to help me get 3 trademarks from the USPTO (United States Patent & Trademark Office). I paid them $497 for their help in applying for these trademarks. They sent me falsified USPTO documents informing me to pay them $5,407.00 for 3 trademarks with 5 classes each. I paid them using a credit card the $5,407.00 and also sent them a photo of me drivers license and EIN number of my business. They then contacted via phone and another falsified email supposedly from the USPTO that I owed another $12,150.00 for publication of pending trademarks. I told them that I did not have that kind of money on hand, but to give me a couple of days and I would contact them as to whether or not I was going forward with anything else. Their attorney called me and explained that I only need to pay $4,050 not the $12,150.00. I told him that I still needed some time to think about it. I then contacted the USPTO directly to find out that the company that I was dealing with had not paid the USPTO the $5,407.00 for the 3 trademarks with 5 classes each. They only applied for the 3 trademarks with one class each totaling $1,050 not $5,407. I also asked the person at the USPTO about the Federal Publication invoice, and she said that they did not request it and that nothing else had to be paid for the trademarks. I then went to my online banking to see that Brooks Dennis LLC had run a $2,000 credit card payment towards the Federal publication. I have reached out to my credit card companies to dispute these 2 charges. I have in my possession 21 documents and numerous images of chatting with this fraudulent company as well as legit USPTO documents from the official website to back my claims.