The Trademark Center allows you to file new trademark applications, pay application fees, and track the progress of your submitted applications.
Login to Access Forms: You must create a USPTO.gov account with two-step authentication and verify your identity before you can log in to access TEAS and the Trademark Center.
Identity verification is required for USPTO.gov account holders to file through the trademark electronic filing system. For most users, this one-time verification process can be completed online in less than 15 minutes. A paper verification process is also available for those who do not wish to verify online.
If you’re just starting out, learn the basics before filing to avoid mistakes that could cost you time, money, and potentially your legal rights. The Trademark Center offers a variety of forms for different purposes in the trademark registration process.
Check current processing times to see how long it may take to process your trademark application. Filing an application, response forms, and post-registration correctly can help expedite the process.
Types of Trademark Application Forms:
- Application for Trademark Registration: This is the basic form for registering a trademark.
- Response Forms: Used to respond to Office action letters (refusals or final actions), request extensions of time to respond to refusals, respond to refusals by the Intent-to-Use (ITU) Unit or Post Registration Office, respond to Office requirement letters.
- Intent-to-Use (ITU) Forms: Used to file a Statement of Use and convert an ITU application to actual use after a Notice of Allowance (NOA) issues, file a request for an extension after an NOA issues, file an Amendment to Allege Use and convert an ITU application to actual use before an NOA issues.
- Post-Allowance/Publication/Notice of Allowance (NOA) Amendment Forms: Used to request an amendment after an application has been approved for publication or has been actually published, request an amendment after an extension of time to oppose has been filed, request an amendment after a Notice of Allowance (NOA) has issued.
- Correspondence and Domestic Representative/Attorney Forms: Used to file a change of address or representation, including change of owner’s address, change of attorney’s address, change of attorney information, change of domestic representative’s address, withdrawal of domestic representative, revocation/appointment of attorney/domestic representative.
- Petition Forms: Used to file a petition to revive an abandoned application, file a petition to amend the basis of an application post-publication, file a Petition to the Director under Trademark Rule 2.146, file a letter of protest.
- Cancellation or Re-examination Forms: Used for a petition for Cancellation or Re-examination, responding to Post Registration Office Action refusal, requesting an Extension of Time.
- Miscellaneous Forms: Used to file a voluntary amendment before publication that is not in response to a USPTO action/letter, file a request to terminate examination of an application (“express abandonment”), file a request to divide an application.
- Maintenance/Renewal/Correction Forms for Registrations: Used to file the required maintenance filing between the fifth and sixth year after the registration date (Section 8), file the required maintenance filing between the ninth and tenth year after the registration date (Sections 8 & 9), request to amend or correct the registration certificate (Section 7).
- Assignment Forms: Used to record assignments, name changes, and other ownership transfers.
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Forms: Used to file all submissions to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, such as oppositions, cancellations, notices of appeal.
- Madrid Protocol Forms: Used to file an International Application, file a subsequent designation, file a response to an irregularity notice.
