Originally Posted by jberryhill

The more important question is whether the proceeding is worth defending - i.e. whether you have a reasonable likelihood of success. If your position has no merit, then spending money on a defense is simply a waste of money.

Normally, I review a complaint, or at least discuss the apparent merits with the respondent, prior to providing a reliable estimate.

Some defenses are simpler than others. As noted in the thread about frontrunners.com, I may have to do a lot of work, or it may be a matter of simply slapping around Pedro the comatose midget to crank out a response, if the case turns on a relatively simple issue.

Because these things are fact specific, ranges of numbers are not helpful to what this particular dispute might involve. But I have gone anywhere from "SOB never paid his bill" to several thousand dollars. A significant component of that is whether to pay $2000 to WIPO in order to obtain a three member panel, which I strongly recommend for a variety of reasons, particularly if the case is something other than a simple common-fact-pattern defense.