How Much Is It To Register A Trademark

How much does a federal Trademark Registration cost?

At Forsgren Fisher McCalmont DeMarea Tysver, we accuse $i,275 (including all regime filing fees) for a "single class" application. Each application is associated with one or more international classes that are covered by the application, and the government charges additional fees for multiple classes. If yous file the awarding without the aid of an attorney, the cost could be below $300 for a single class.

What is the Cost of an Application for Federal Trademark Registration?
--$1,275 for a one-class trademark application

Applying for federal registration of a trademark is, in and of itself, a adequately cheap proffer. Typically, the application class is filled out online at the United States Patent and Trademark Office'south website and will take nigh a half hour to complete. Depending on the type of application, and the applicant'southward willingness to comport future communications with the USPTO, the application filing fees are currently between $225-$400 per course. You lot must pay this fee for each course of appurtenances and services for which registration is sought.

Of class, filling out the application is merely a single step in the application procedure. There are additional costs likely to be incurred both before the application is filed as well every bit afterward. If you consider the price of the trademark search to be a dissimilar service (see the adjacent section below), Forsgren Fisher McCalmont DeMarea Tysver typically charges $1,275 for filing a trademark application in a single class, and this includes the regime fee for that filing. This fee includes an initial consultation with you regarding trademark rights in general and how to best protect your particular trademark. Part of this consultation volition exist the selection of the class of the trademark that is to be registered. Frequently there are different ways in which a marking is used in commerce, such equally in plainly text, in stylized text, and within a larger logo. While you can always file separate trademarks on each of these trademark forms, multiple trademark applications quickly become expensive. Depending on your circumstances, you may exist best served to select only a single form for the trademark awarding. We tin can assist you brand this conclusion. This narrowing down of the number of trademark applications tin sometimes salvage you the corporeality of our attorney's fees. Of grade, it may be that this consultation leads to the decision that different applications should be filed on multiple forms of the trademark.

In add-on to proper selection of the grade of the trademark, it essential to any trademark awarding that the goods and/or services description associated with the marking is properly tailored (run across our guidance on How to correctly identify your appurtenances and services for more than information). Not only exercise you need to accurately depict the appurtenances/services but you lot must do this with an eye toward your electric current and time to come business organization and product evolution plans, as well every bit with an awareness of your competitors. This may take careful consideration and drafting by you and your trademark chaser. This assay is as well included in the $1275 fee.

What are the Costs for a Trademark Search?
--From $0 (no search) to $900 (search is performed)

In many cases, information technology makes sense to have an attorney conduct a trademark search earlier filing your application for federal registration. If you choose to have us conduct a search, the cost tin can vary between $450 and $900. Please meet our discussion on Should you conduct a trademark search and if so, when? for more data, including a more detailed word of the costs involved.

What are the Costs After filing, only Earlier Registration?
--From $0 to $three,000

Several months after filing, you lot or your chaser volition likely receive from the USPTO a communication or Office Action that volition bespeak any objections that the examiner has to your awarding. For example, the examiner may believe that the marker being practical for is "confusingly similar" to one or more other marks due to its common look, spelling or even its sound (i.eastward., "sounds alike"). Alternatively, the examiner may find the application to be "but descriptive," meaning that the examiner believes that the mark is effectively just a descriptor of the goods/services. For more information on the possible reasons for an role action, meet Bitlaw's discussion on registrable trademarks. All of these rejections must be considered, and fully addressed past you lot or your attorney in the class of a response to the office action. The drafting of such a response may take at least a few hours of time and will likely cost between $1000-$3000. In some cases, multiple function deportment may be issued past the reviewing trademark examiner, and each office activity must be responded to.

Assuming that the rejections/objections to the mark are successfully overcome, and so the mark volition keep to be published. If no objection is filed to the registration of the mark by an existing trademark holder, the mark being applied for will accelerate to be being immune and finally registered.

What Additional Costs are Required in Intent-to-Apply Applications?
--From $550 to $three,000

Intent-to-use applications (What is an intent-to-use application?) crave additional steps in the registration process, which will incur boosted costs to the applicant. The near obvious of these additional steps (and of course additional costs) is the filing of the "argument of use" that must exist washed afterward the U.Southward. Trademark Office allows the awarding. The statement of use provides proof to the trademark office that the mark is now in actual use in commerce. This statement of use requires the submission of a $100 filing fee for each course in your application (How to correctly identify your goods and services), and your attorney will likely charge a fee for creating the statement, organizing the proof of use, and filing this data with the trademark office. At Forsgren Fisher McCalmont DeMarea Tysver, this charge is well-nigh $450.

Later on assart, the trademark function but grants you lot half dozen months to file the argument of employ. If you lot are not notwithstanding using the mark in commerce past that initial six-month borderline, but still take an bodily intention to utilize the mark in the time to come, you may extend the deadline by another six months through the filing of an extension of time request before the 6-calendar month borderline. This extension of time process may be repeated to allow the applicant a full extension menses of upwards to 36 months. Each half dozen-month extension of time requires a class to exist filled out (we charge a $300 fee to practise this grade) and the payment of a $125 filing fee per form (annotation that this fee, like many others, is significantly increased if the form is non submitted electronically).

If you begin to use the mark during the time information technology is being examined by the trademark office (before it is allowed), you can file an amendment to allege use to convert the application into an actual use application. The cost for this amendment is the aforementioned as the toll to file a statement of use, but y'all will not have to worry about the extension periods.

What are the Costs after your Trademark is Registered?
--$750 Section 8 & xv Affidavits (5 to six years afterward registration)
--$925 Renewal (every ten years)

Section 8 Affidavit: Alas, the costs don't cease upon registration. Between the fifth and 6th year anniversary of a mark's registration, an "Affidavit of Use" nether xv U.S.C. 1058 (aka a "Section 8 Affidavit") must be filed to prove that the marking is being used in commerce. The Department 8 Affidavit must be filed to maintain your mark'southward registration. The government fee is approximately $125 per registration grade. Forsgren Fisher McCalmont DeMarea Tysver charges a apartment fee of $425 for preparing the Affidavit and filing information technology (in add-on to the per-class government fee).

Section 15 Affidavit: In add-on, if the mark is registered on the Principal Register, an Affidavit of Incontestability under fifteen U.S.C. §1065 (aka a "Section 15 Affidavit") may optionally be filed on or after the five-year ceremony of the marker. The Section xv Affirmation is a declaration that the mark has been in continuous use in commerce on or in connexion with the goods or services covered in the registration for the five years afterward the date of registration. The Section fifteen Affirmation is NOT required, but information technology is a good idea to file one if the aforementioned criteria of continuous use tin exist asserted. The status of "incontestability" that the affidavit bestows provides conclusive evidence of the marker'south registration, buying, and validity in any subsequent conform for infringement. The cost for filing the Section 15 Affidavit is $200 in authorities fees per registration class. Typically, the Department 15 Affidavit is filed forth with the Department 8 Affidavit. In these circumstances, Forsgren Fisher McCalmont DeMarea Tysver does not charge whatsoever additional fee for preparing the Section fifteen Affidavit across the cost of filing the Section eight affirmation.

Renewal: Following registration, the USPTO requires that the mark be renewed from time to time. The showtime renewal fee must be paid between the 9th and 10th year following your registration date. Every ten-year period thereafter another renewal fee is due. At that place is a half dozen-month grace period if you miss the ten-year deadline. Presently the renewal fee is $425 per international class (if filed electronically), and our firm will accuse a $500 fee for completing this process for you.

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Guidance on Trademark Applications

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