We launched Trademark Center, a new system designed to improve your filing experience. You can use the beta version of Trademark Center to apply to register your trademark.
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 name consent, translation, and transliteration
- Improved character limits
- Street address fields have a 250-character limit (40 characters in TEAS)
- City address fields have a 40-character limit (22 characters in TEAS)
- Docket number fields have a 25-character limit (12 characters in TEAS)
New features
- You can now download an application preview from the “Declaration and signature” section.
- Attorneys and their sponsored support staff can now collaborate on draft applications in Trademark Center.
- When you create an application, you can share it for edits with one person at a time from the “My drafts” page.
- Attorneys can share with their sponsored support staff, and support staff can share with their sponsoring attorneys.
- Shared drafts will appear in a collaborator’s “My drafts” page. They can complete the application or return it to you for any further edits. You can also unshare the draft at any time.
- See our walkthrough video for more information.
- Custom views to allow you to adjust the amount of help text you see, including hiding it entirely
- Enhancing the draft sharing feature to give practitioners more options
- Expanding beyond TEAS Plus and TEAS Standard to add applications for supplemental registration, collective membership marks, certification marks, and collective marks
Training
We offer live biweekly webinars to learn the fundamentals of our new filing system. Visit our Trademark Center webinar series page to register. Register to join one of our live biweekly webinars to learn the fundamentals of our new filing system. Subscribe to receive updates in our Subscription Center to stay up to date on training opportunities.
You can also watch videos that focus on specific scenarios when filing a trademark application with a single class of goods or services:
- 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
Feedback
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
- Our feedback form
What’s happening to TEAS?
Although TEAS has served us well for more than 25 years, the technology is now outdated and difficult to maintain. Developing Trademark Center has allowed us to address those issues, and also supports the USPTO’s strategic goal to develop modern IT infrastructure and applications.
Over the next few years, we’ll gradually transition all forms from TEAS and TEAS International (TEASi) to Trademark Center.
You have the option to apply to register your trademark in either Trademark Center or TEAS until early January 2025. The cost to file remains the same in both systems.
- Custom views: These settings will allow you to adjust the amount of help text you see, including hiding it entirely.
- Expanding beyond TEAS Plus and TEAS Standard to add applications for supplemental registration, collective membership marks, certification marks, and collective marks