Summary of 2025 trademark fee changes

We review our fees, costs, and revenues every two years to ensure we can recover the aggregate costs of trademark operations. Based on our latest review, we concluded that fee adjustments are necessary to provide Trademarks with sufficient resources to administer the U.S. trademark system. We set our adjusted fees to align with these four key factors:

Promoting innovation strategies
Aligning fees with the full cost of trademark services
Setting fees to facilitate the effective administration of the trademark system
Offering application processing options

Fee changes

This final rule sets or adjusts 28 trademark fees, and the changes become effective on January 18, 2025. We’ll highlight some of those changes on this page. For a complete list, including fees for paper submissions, see the final rule.

Application fees

This final rule replaces the two types of application fees—Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) Plus and TEAS Standard—with one base application fee for applications under Trademark Act Sections 1 and 44. Customers will also see additional fees based on the complexity and completeness of their application. However, we expect the majority of applicants will only pay the base fee and won't be subject to additional fees.

For Section 66(a)-based Madrid applications, we’re adjusting the existing application fee to a level that corresponds with what Madrid applicants would expect to pay, on average, if filing directly under the base application and surcharge system.

Fee description	Current fee	New fee
TEAS Standard application	$350	n/a
TEAS Plus application	$250	n/a
Base application (Sections 1 and 44), per class	n/a	$350
Application fee filed with WIPO (Section 66(a)), per class	$500	$600
Subsequent designation fee filed with WIPO (Section 66(a)), per class	$500	$600

We’re introducing additional fees for applications that are incomplete or contain custom identifications of goods or services. These fees aim to encourage more complete applications, which will improve examination efficiency and help reduce pendency.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is currently unable to collect additional fees before recording a Section 66(a) application. We'll reconsider a base filing and additional fee system for Madrid applications after WIPO develops the capacity to implement additional fees.

Fee description	Current fee	New fee
Insufficient information (Sections 1 and 44), per class	n/a	$100
Using the free-form text box instead of the Trademark ID Manual within Trademark Center to identify goods and services (Sections 1 and 44), per class	n/a	$200
Each additional group of 1,000 characters in the free-form text box beyond the first 1,000 (Sections 1 and 44), per affected class	n/a	$200

Post-registration maintenance fees

We’re increasing the fees for post-registration maintenance filings to:

Continue balancing the cost of base applications
Offset higher processing costs for these filings
Rebalance fee collections derived from these fees due to changes in demand and filing patterns

Fee description	Current fee	New fee
Section 9 registration renewal application, per class	$300	$325
Section 8 declaration, per class	$225	$325
Section 15 declaration, per class	$200	$250
Section 71 declaration, per class	$225	$325
Renewal fee filed at WIPO	$300	$325

Petitions and letters of protest fees

The following updated fees help us recover more of the cost of processing petitions and letters of protest.

Fee description	Current fee	New fee
Petition to the Director	$250	$400
Petition to revive an application	$150	$250
Letter of protest	$50	$150

Intent-to-use fees

We haven’t adjusted our amendment to allege use (AAU) and statement of use (SOU) fees since 2002, even as processing costs increased during the subsequent two decades. The examination time for these filings has also increased due to the volume of questionable specimens we receive, requiring us to issue more office actions.

Fee description	Current fee	New fee
Amendment to allege use (AAU), per class	$100	$150
Statement of use (SOU), per class	$100	$150