Trademark Center is a new system designed to improve your filing experience. You can use the beta version of Trademark Center to apply to register your trademark now.
Important deadlines: Submit your trademark initial application soon
December 31, 2024: Every year, the ID Manual is updated on January 1. This affects our filing systems in different ways.
Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) initial applications: You must submit in-progress initial applications by December 31 at 11:59 p.m. ET. You can’t use your previously saved OBJ files and in-progress electronic signature requests after the December 31 update.
Trademark Center: You’ll continue to have access to your drafts. If you don’t submit the application by December 31, you must re-enter your goods and services and resend any outstanding electronic signature requests.
January 17, 2025: This is the last day to file an initial application in TEAS, and the last day to apply under the current fee schedule.
TEAS: If you start an application in TEAS on or after January 1, you must submit it by January 17 at 11:59 p.m. ET. You can’t transfer your saved application OBJ files and in-progress electronic signature requests to Trademark Center.
Trademark Center: You must complete all electronic signature requests and submit any draft applications by January 17 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Saved drafts will be removed from your “My drafts” tab.
January 18, 2025: The new fees will be in effect. The TEAS initial application forms will be retired, and Trademark Center will be the only place to file a trademark application. These five initial application forms in Trademark Electronic Application System will be retired:
TEAS Plus/TEAS Standard Application
Trademark/Servicemark Application, Supplemental Register
Certification Mark Application, Principal Register
Collective Membership Mark Application, Principal Register
Collective Trademark/Servicemark Application, Principal Register
Over the next few years, we’ll gradually transition all forms from TEAS and TEAS International (TEASi) to Trademark Center.
Start using Trademark Center
We designed Trademark Center with valuable feedback from attorneys, paralegals, entrepreneurs, and business owners. Our new system offers:
A mobile-friendly design
A new, guided user interface
Drafts that automatically save every 60 seconds
Status tracking in a new filing docket
Transparent application costs that update as you go
Prompts to complete commonly omitted information, like personal name consent, translation, and transliteration
Improved character limits for street, city, and docket number fields
A draft sharing feature for attorneys and their sponsored support staff
We hope you’ll use Trademark Center and provide feedback so we can continue improving the platform. You can submit comments and suggestions via the feedback button on the bottom right side of each page in Trademark Center or by our feedback form.
Visit our Subscription Center and sign up for Trademark Alerts to stay up to date on Trademark Center and trademark information.
Training
We offer live biweekly webinars to learn the fundamentals of our new filing system. Visit our Trademark Center webinar series page to register for an upcoming event. You can view the one-hour webinar recording below from October 25, 2024.
Federal trademark filing: Overview
Federal trademark filing: Overview
- Standard character, intent-to-use basis
- Standard character, use in commerce basis
- Special form without color, intent-to-use basis
- Special form without color, use in commerce basis
- Special form with color, intent-to-use basis
- Special form with color, use in commerce basis
To learn more about draft sharing, see our video walkthrough on sharing drafts.