Welcome to the TTAB Center resources page, where you can find information about TTAB Center, a TTAB Center User Guide and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about TTAB Center.
What is TTAB Center
TTAB Center is the improved filing platform for parties doing business with the TTAB, replacing the ESTTA filing platform that the TTAB has used for years. Our new filing platform is more secure and resilient than ESTTA.
Pre-filing requirements
To make filings, and to create and access your docket, you must have an active MyUSPTO account. Additionally, TTAB Center requires two-step authentication. If you have an existing MyUSPTO account, you will only need to set up two-step authentication.
For more information and support for your MyUSPTO account, read through the MyUSPTO and USPTO.gov account FAQs page.
User guide
The TTAB Center User Guide provides an overview of the system's functionalities and how to use it.
FAQs
For additional information, read through the TTAB Center's frequently asked questions.
TTAB Center capabilities
One-stop resource
File complaints, trial testimony, evidence, and briefs or access your docket without switching websites or browsers.
Secure log-in and other benefits of using a MyUSPTO account
With a mandatory MyUSPTO account and two-factor authentication, you and your authorized support staff will be the only persons who can access your drafts and docket.
In addition, your contact information in your MyUSPTO account can be used to quickly populate the contact information segment of TTAB Center's electronic filing form that forms a part of your submission.
Multifactor authentication
We transitioned to more secure authentication methods. For more information, see 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 access your existing roles and information in the Trademarks ID.me and Sponsorship tool. You can take advantage of this feature by using your account to populate fields in TTAB Center filing forms with your contact information. If you sponsored a legal support staff, that person can access your contact information when completing filing forms.
Benefits of using TTAB Center
- Access to your available extensions of time to oppose: Lets users preparing notices of opposition access extensions of time to oppose that list email addresses and use those details when drafting opposition filings.
- Docket feature: Provides a single location to view draft and completed filing forms, along with key details such as shared recipients, real time submission status, lock indicators, and last update information.
- Real-time tracking: Shows in real time which parts of the filing form are complete, and which remain; completed sections display a green check mark beside the navigation panel.
- Improved saving and sharing: Share draft filing forms with other MyUSPTO users: the creator sends a draft via the TTAB docket, recipients can complete and save it, then return or forward it for review or 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.