Your brand is the asset. Can you stop someone else using it?
For a consumer business the trademark is not paperwork — it is the thing customers actually buy. Copycats arrive fastest here, marketplaces are the battleground, and the classes you did not file in are the ones a competitor will use. This is the most trademark-intensive work we do.
The ladder is the same for everyone. These are the steps this situation usually starts on.
Public IP disputes, read for what they teach. These are not our clients — they are the record.