1. What is a Demand Letter?
A Demand Letter is a letter, usually written by an attorney, demanding that a person (1) Pay you for money owed; OR (2) Stop infringing on your intellectual property or talking bad about you. The two examples above, Demand Letter for Payment, and Demand Letter for Cease and Desist, are two very common forms of demand letters.
2. How Can a Demand Letter Help Me
Sending a Demand Letter shows that you’re serious about the situation. It puts somebody who owes you money or who is stealing your IP on actual notice that they cannot keep doing what they’re doing. It also give them a chance to make things right before you escalate the situation.
A strongly-worded Demand Letter from us usually resolves the problem.
3. What’s In a Demand Letter?
First, we name the person or company that owes you money or is infringing on your IP.
Second, we establish what our demand is based on. If they owe you money then it’s usually based on a contract of a promissory note. If they infringed on your IP then it’s usually based on their use of your IP in song, design logo, or something else that they produced. We clearly establish the basis in our demand letter.
Third, we articulate our demand that they pay you a specified amount by a given date (if its a Demand for Payment), or they stop engaging in their offending behavior (if its a Demand for Cease and Desist). We can also combine the Cease and Desist with a Demand for Payment if they made money using your IP.
4. How Can We Get Started?
First, click ‘Get Started’ and we’ll send a Questionnaire for you to complete. You may also fill out the Contact Form and we’ll email you the Questionnaire.
After you’ve answered the questionnaire and paid for the Demand Letter, our attorneys will draft your Demand Letter within 72 hours and send it out. We give the offender seven days to respond to our Demand Letter. If they don’t respond, our next step is to file a lawsuit.
