Where is the trademark application form?
Where is the trademark application form?
Trademark Center is a system designed to improve your filing experience. It's the only way you can apply to register your trademark.
To keep up with escalating threats, we now require more secure multi-factor authentication methods when logging into our systems with a USPTO.gov account.
New features
The April 23 Trademark Center update brings new functionality and AI-assisted mark description and color claim capabilities.
Change address or representation and renew registrations
You can now:
Update owner or attorney contact information
Change or withdraw attorney representation
Submit registration renewals under:
Section 8
Section 15
Combined Sections 8 and 9
Combined Sections 8 and 15
How do I file a trademark application?
How do I file a trademark application?
Your options to amend or update your filing depend on the user role connected to your USPTO.gov account and the current attorney representation status of a given filing. In this release, you’ll be able to make correspondence and attorney changes one application at a time. We’ll add bulk changes in a release later this year along with response forms and requests for extension of time.
You can still submit a Change Address or Representation form, including bulk forms, and post-registration and maintenance renewals in the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) until later this year.
Mark description and color claim generator
Descriptions for trademarks must meet certain specific requirements, including a claim of all colors used in color marks. Customers who don’t have the right wording can experience processing delays and additional requirements. The new AI assistance for mark descriptions and color claims in Trademark Center will take the guesswork out of what to include in your trademark application.
If you’re applying for a mark with design elements, upload your mark drawing. The system will automatically display the required mark details. You can choose to view the AI suggestions for the mark description and color claim, if you’re applying for a color mark. If you like what you see, you can accept the suggestion and it will be automatically imported into the application. You can also edit or change the suggestions. Be sure to review them for accuracy – AI can miss details or suggest things that aren’t there.
Class ACT
We recently shared news about Trademark Classification Agentic Codification Tool, or “Class ACT,” which can immediately assign international classes to unclassified applications, as well as the design search codes and pseudo marks that make these records searchable. Learn more about how Class ACT is reducing pre-processing time.
Coming soon
In our next release this summer, customers will be able to file requests for extension of time, and practitioners will be able to submit bulk updates for forms.
Training
We offer live webinars to learn the fundamentals of our new filing system. Visit our Trademark Center webinar series page to register for an upcoming event.
For everyone looking for an overview of how to file an application in Trademark Center, watch this recorded webinar.
Federal trademark filing: Overview
Federal trademark filing: Overview
For trademark attorneys and sponsored support staff, watch this webinar recording for more advanced features.
Trademark attorneys: Mastering the Trademark Center application filing system
Trademark attorneys: Mastering the Trademark Center application filing system
Application walkthroughs
You can also watch videos that focus on specific scenarios when filing a trademark application with a single class of goods or services:
- Standard character, intent-to-use basis
- Standard character, use in commerce basis
- Standard character, foreign registration basis
- Standard character, intent-to-use with foreign priority date basis
To learn more about draft sharing between attorneys and sponsored support staff, see our video walkthrough on sharing drafts.