The cost to apply for and maintain a trademark registration depends on multiple factors, such as your application filing basis and the number of classes of goods or services in your application. Once you’ve submitted your application, you may need to pay additional fees based on the completeness and complexity of your application. After your trademark registers, you’ll need to pay maintenance fees periodically to keep your registration alive. See our trademark fee information and the fee schedule for more detailed information.
Your application filing fee
The base application fee for each class of goods or services you include in your application is $350. For example, you might have a clothing line of golf shirts, dress shirts, and t-shirts. These all fall under one class, so your base application filing fee would be $350 for the one class.
However, if you also provide custom t-shirt printing services, you’d have goods and services in two different international classes. In that case, your base application filing fee would be $700 ($350 for each class).
Your application filing basis
Your filing basis depends on whether you’re currently using your trademark in commerce, which affects what actions and responsibilities you have throughout the registration process.
If you’re already using your trademark in interstate commerce in the United States, you’ll select the use-in-commerce filing basis. If you have a bona fide intention to use your trademark but are not yet doing so, you’ll select the intent-to-use filing basis. This basis includes additional filings and fees at specific times in the process. For example, you must file an allegation of use and pay the required fee before your application can be approved.
Learn more about the use-in-commerce and intent-to-use bases.
Additional fees
You may owe one or more additional fees when you file as well as during the examination process depending on the completeness and complexity of your application. Read more on our trademark fee information page.
Maintaining your registration
After you register your trademark, you must file documents at regular intervals to maintain your registration. The cost to file these documents depends on the number of classes in your registration. For example, every 10 years, regardless of the underlying basis of the registration, you must submit a declaration of use or excusable nonuse and an application for renewal. This has filing fees of $325 for the declaration of use plus $325 for the renewal equaling $650 per class of goods or services. Therefore, if you have two classes of goods, you’ll pay $1300 ($650 for each class).