DocketTrak handles patents and trademarks together. Its published rate card starts at $125 a month for up to five users. If your practice spans both, that breadth is the whole point and a trademark-only tool would be a step backwards.
If it does not, you are buying half a product you will never open.
What a combined platform costs you in trademark work
Not money — structure. A system covering both disciplines models a matter generically, so that it can be either. Trademark-specific behaviour then becomes configuration rather than built-in truth:
- Section 71 for Madrid registrations, on a different anniversary from the US registration date
- Statement-of-use extension counts, where the fifth request is the last one
- Two-month revival windows triggered by a notice rather than by the deadline that was missed
- Three-month office action responses for most applications, six for Madrid
None of that is exotic. It is simply trademark practice, and a platform built for it should already know.
On price, plainly
DocketTrak's own rate card starts at $125 a month for up to five users, and Sealvo starts at $149. We are the more expensive of the two, and for a firm that files patents we are also the narrower one. Both of those things are true at the same time and neither is a reason to switch on its own.
The number that usually decides it is not either subscription — it is what you are separately paying for watch and screening. A firm running DocketTrak alongside a monitoring service and per-search clearance fees is comparing $125 against $149 while the real comparison is the whole line. A firm running DocketTrak and nothing else is comparing $125 against $149, and should probably stay.
What a move would actually involve
Worth being unromantic about this. Trademark records migrate reasonably well because the register is the source of truth: serial numbers, registration numbers and owners all come back from the USPTO, so a migration is mostly a matter of handing over a list of serial numbers and letting the new system compute the rest.
What does not migrate is everything a firm has written around the record — internal notes, client contacts, matter numbers, billing references, who is responsible for what. That is the work, and it is the reason most firms run two systems in parallel for a cycle rather than cutting over. Running both through one full Section 8 window is the cautious version, and it has a side benefit: the two dockets disagreeing is exactly the second check carriers look for.
When to stay with DocketTrak
If you file patents. One system covering both is worth more than two best-of-breed systems that do not talk to each other, and no trademark-only product — ours included — will change that arithmetic.
When to look
If your practice is trademark-only, and particularly if you are also paying separately for watch or screening services. That is the comparison where a bundled trademark platform makes sense. The full table is here.