Attorney profile
Law Office of Walter Tencza, Jr.
The short version
Edison, New Jersey patent and trademark practice led by a registered patent attorney with more than 25 years of experience, serving inventors and businesses worldwide through PatentNow.com.
Strengths
- Direct access to a registered patent attorney with more than 25 years of experience, rather than an intake or paralegal layer
- Consistent reviewer praise for responsiveness, including prompt email and phone replies and proactive deadline reminders
- Broad intellectual property coverage: utility and design patents, trademark search and registration, opposition and cancellation, copyright registration, infringement matters, and NDA work
- Free consultation and free initial trademark feedback, plus an advertised expedited patent process
- Fees repeatedly described as reasonable and fair, with reviewers noting quoted pricing that did not change when extra work was required
Considerations
- One reviewer alleges repeated filing errors and added charges; the firm disputes the account and says it has no record of that client.
- Clients describe patent timelines ranging from a few months to about three years, including applications requiring a response to an initial refusal.
About Law Office of Walter Tencza, Jr.
Law Office of Walter Tencza, Jr. is an intellectual property practice at 100 Menlo Park Dr, Suite 210, in Edison, New Jersey, operating online as PatentNow.com. The firm is built around a single registered patent attorney with more than 25 years in practice, and it markets a free consultation plus free initial feedback on trademarks. Inventors, startups, small business owners, and established companies - in the United States and internationally - are the client base the firm describes.
The service range covers patents, trademarks, and copyrights. On the patent side, the firm advertises patent preparation and prosecution, an expedited patent process, and representation before the USPTO through office actions and examiner negotiations. Trademark work includes searches, applications, US registration, infringement matters, and opposition and cancellation proceedings. Copyright registration and copyright infringement are also listed, and client feedback references related work such as NDA drafting for at least one client.
The experience reviewers describe is personal and hands-on. Recurring praise centers on working directly with the attorney rather than through layers of staff, receiving step-by-step explanations of unfamiliar procedures, and getting questions answered promptly by phone or email. Several reviewers note proactive check-ins and reminders about approaching deadlines. Cost is another frequent theme: clients characterize fees as reasonable and fair, and more than one mentions that a quoted price held even when the matter required additional effort.
Clients report outcomes including issued utility and design patents, registered trademarks, copyright registrations, and a trademark infringement matter. Some reviewers report allowance and issuance within roughly six months, including a utility patent allowed about three and a half months after filing; another describes a patent that took about three years, and a separate reviewer notes a difficult examiner and an initial rejection that was ultimately overcome. The firm’s emphasis on staying with a case through rejection is echoed in feedback from long-term clients, some of whom describe relationships spanning ten years or more.
Nearly all of the 42 reviews are five stars, and the practice holds a 4.90 rating. One strongly negative review alleges repeated application errors and added fees; the firm’s public reply disputes it, stating the firm has no record of the reviewer as a client. Prospective clients weighing the practice should treat that outlier alongside the otherwise consistent feedback, and should expect prosecution timelines to depend on the examiner and the technology involved.
Recurring feedback
What clients consistently mention
- Reviewers consistently highlight clear, step-by-step guidance through unfamiliar patent, trademark, and copyright procedures
- Responsiveness is a dominant pattern: prompt replies to calls and emails, frequent status updates, and reminders as deadlines approach
- Cost is frequently mentioned, with fees characterized as reasonable and pricing described as stable across the course of a matter
- Reported results span issued utility and design patents, registered trademarks, copyright registrations, and a trademark infringement matter, with long-term repeat clients noted
- Prosecution speed draws mixed observations, ranging from unusually fast allowances to a multi-year patent matter, alongside a single strongly negative review that the firm publicly disputes
All reviews
4.9 out of five stars based on 42 reviews.
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