Welcome to the TTAB Center resources page. Here you can find information about TTAB Center and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).
TTAB Center is the updated filing platform for parties doing business with the TTAB. It will replace the Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA), which TTAB has used for many years. TTAB Center is more secure and more reliable than ESTTA.
Pre-filing requirements
To file documents and create or access your docket, you must have an active MyUSPTO account. TTAB Center also requires two-step authentication. If you already have a MyUSPTO account, you only need to set up two-step authentication.
For more information and help with your MyUSPTO account, see the MyUSPTO and USPTO.gov account FAQs page.
Training
How do I file a notice of opposition?
How do I file a notice of opposition?
New TTAB Center help video
Need help filing a notice of opposition? Watch our new video for a step-by-step walkthrough of the filing process in TTAB Center.
New features
The August 12 TTAB Center update brought new functionality.
File motions for summary judgments and related motions, motions to strike, motions to review an order or decision of the Board
For inter partes trial proceedings, you can now use the system to:
- File a motion or cross-motion for summary judgment
- File a request for discovery to respond to a motion summary judgment
- File a motion to strike
- File a motion to review an order or decision by the Board
You can also use TTAB Center to:
- Respond to motions and Board orders
- Submit replies in support of motions
- File a motion to consolidate cases
- File a motion to add or replace a party
- Enter an attorney appearance
- Appoint or withdraw an attorney
- Update correspondence information
Some filing and signing options depend on who currently represents the party in the case and on your Trademark user role linked to your USPTO.gov account.
Coming soon
In our next release, customers will be able to:
- File answers, counterclaims, amended pleadings and related motions
FAQs
For additional information, read through the TTAB Center's frequently asked questions.
TTAB Center capabilities
Secure log-in and multifactor authentication
With a required MyUSPTO account and two-factor authentication, only you and any support staff you authorize can access your drafts and docket.
Your MyUSPTO contact information can also be used to automatically fill in the contact information section of TTAB Center’s electronic filing form when you submit.
We now use more secure authentication methods. For more information, see the new options for more secure authentication.
Use existing roles and info in Trademarks ID.me and Sponsorship tool
Using your MyUSPTO email account, TTAB Center will also use the roles and information already stored in the Trademarks ID.me and Sponsorship tool. If you have sponsored legal support staff, they can access your contact information when filling out filing forms.
One-stop resource
- Access available extensions of time to oppose: When preparing a notice of opposition, users can select extensions of time to oppose that include your email address within the extension of time record.
- You can also file complaints, responses to motions or board orders, replies in support of motions, trial testimony, evidence, briefs, requests for oral hearing, and party or correspondence submissions, and view your docket, all from one website without having to switch systems.
Docket feature
- One place to manage filings: You can view draft and completed filing forms in one place, along with important details like shared recipients, submission status, lock status, and the last time the form was updated.
- Real-time progress tracking: You can see which parts of a filing form are complete and which parts still need work. Completed sections show a green check mark in the navigation panel.
Saving and sharing
- Using the Save and Share feature, users can share draft filing forms with other MyUSPTO users. From the docket, users can also see who has the filing "locked" for review or editing.
- Recipients can review and complete the filing or save and share it for filing.
Submitting evidence
- Don’t submit unnecessary evidence. An unnecessarily hefty filing is no more persuasive than a carefully selected smaller filing. For instance: An entire catalog, book, or magazine need not be entered in the record when the filing party relies on or references only a single page, chapter, or article.
- If your filing is still large, consider dividing it into two or more separate filings, in logical segments, filed consecutively. Clearly and briefly label the contents and attachments of each separate filing (e.g., "Smith Deposition vol. 2," or "Opposer’s Third Notice of Reliance, Exhs. F–L").
- An exhibit to a notice of opposition or a petition for cancellation is not of record and will not be considered in evidence, except if the exhibit is a current status and title copy of plaintiff's registration or application prepared by the USPTO, or a current copy of the registration or application information from the electronic records of the USPTO showing the current status and title.
- Although trial testimony must be filed in its entirety, only the relevant portions of discovery depositions should be filed under a notice of reliance.
- A testimony declaration should not be filed as an exhibit to a notice of reliance - it should be filed as separate testimony.
- Deposition exhibits
- Deposition exhibits must be numbered or lettered consecutively and marked with the number and title of the proceeding and the name of the party offering the exhibit.
- The Board may refuse to consider unmarked or improperly marked exhibits.