Assignments/Recordations
- Updating ownership information after assignment is recorded (updated 24Mar2020)
- Steps when confronted with an assignment against your property filed by another party (updated 21Nov2013)
- Record trademarks with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) (Updated 11Sep2020)
Bulk data
Electronic communications
- Notice concerning archival copies of trademark registration certificates and updated registration certificates (03March2016)
- TIPS for responding to a USPTO office sction (15Dec2015)
- TSDR telease highlights [Word] (24Oct2015)
- USPTO now issuing courtesy email reminders of registration maintenance filing deadlines (updated 27Jan2015)
- How to make TSDR records more readable (04Aug2014)
- Electronic Trademark Official Gazette enhancements (10Dec2013)
- Subscribing to trademark alert emails (03Dec2013)
- Direct link to Trademark Official Gazette page featuring marks for applicants who authorize communications by e-mail (29Aug2012)
- Subscribe to trademark alerts (23Dec2010)
- Ensuring proper delivery of all USPTO emails (26Feb2010)
Electronic filing - Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
- Disaster guidance for trademark customers (Sep2017)
- TEAS reformatted declarations revised (29Apr2017)
- TEAS reformatted declarations effective January 14, 2017 (03Jan2017)
- Waiver of certain trademark rules of practice as a result of the shutdown of the Trademark Electronic Application System (31Dec2015)
- USPTO financial manager
- Using the TEAS attorney withdrawal, replacement, and appointment/revocation forms (31Jan2014)
- Madrid protocol concerning the international registration of marks-fee change-effective February 17, 2013 (17Jan2013)
- USPTO trademark filing information for customers impacted by Hurricane Sandy (02Nov2012)
- Extension of OHIM deadlines due to Hurricane Sandy (02Nov12)
- Avoiding loss of TEAS plus status (06Aug2012)
- Steps for transmitting a large volume of evidence electronically (30Mar2012)
Processing issues
- Responding to office actions
- Letters of protest (03Dec2013)
- WIPO announces new special services for users of Madrid System (30Jul2013)
- How to overcome a specimen refusal (22Feb2013)
- How to overcome an ornamental refusal (22Feb2013)
- Consistency initiative made Permanent program (04Dec2012)
- Additional information for post-notice of allowance process (15Mar2012)
- Relief available to trademark applicants and owners affected by the catastrophic events in Japan (17Mar2011)
- Maximizing use of insurance extension option when filing statement of use (07May2010)
Classification and identification
- International schedule of classes of goods and services under Nice Agreement (01Jan2014)
- Noteworthy changes to the Nice Classification System under the Nice Agreement (01Jan2014)
- Archived notices
Online resources
- TMEP October 2017 (15Oct2017)
- TMEP April 2016 (30April2016)
- TMEP October 2015 (30Oct2015)
- TMEP October 2014 (30Oct2014)
- Trademark policy collaboration site overview (03Dec2013)
- Official Gazette subscriber alert (11Dec2012)
- Process timelines (24May2011)
Madrid Protocol
- Tips for filing an outbound Madrid Protocol application (15Sep2023)
- WIPO announces new special services for users of Madrid System (30Jul2013)