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First timer? Get basic information before filing to avoid mistakes that cost you time, money, and potentially your legal rights.

To apply for a trademark or servicemark, select your form from the table heading below. Once you select the form, you will be directed to our Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) where you can being filing your application. 

Need more help deciding which form to use or how to fill it out?  Watch the TEAS Nuts and Bolts video.

 

Trademark application forms (select one to start) --->

TEAS Plus form

 TEAS Reduced Fee form TEAS Regular form
Filing fee per class of goods/services $225 $275 $400
E-mail address required for USPTO application-related correspondence? Yes Yes No
Additional submissions, like responses to Office actions, must be filed online? Yes Yes  No
Goods/services listing must be selected from the USPTO Trademark Identification (ID) Manual? Yes No No
Full Filing fee paid upfront (per class for all classes listed on the application)? Yes No No
Certain statements regarding the mark be provided in the application as filed, if applicable (e.g., translation statement, claim of ownership, color claim and description)? Yes - see TMEP §819.01 No No
Additional processing fee if applicant does not satisfy the relevant filing option requirements ? Yes - $125 per class of goods/services Yes - $125 per class of goods/services No

All online trademark forms
Already know which forms you need? Go to our index of all TEAS forms.
Scroll over the category headings to view a list of all forms within a specific category.  Click the category headings to access the page to select a specific form.    
 

1. Initial application forms 
To apply for a trademark/servicemark on the Principal Register, a trademark/servicemark on the Supplemental Register, and other types of marks (certification, collective, collective membership)

2. Response forms
To respond to: a Law Office examining attorney letter (an "Office action") (a non-final or final action, including a suspension inquiry/letter of suspension or a request to submit a "substitute form" where the wrong form type was initially filed); an Intent-to-Use Unit (ITU) Office action; a Post-Registration Division Office action; a Petitions Office letter 

3. Intent-to-use (ITU) forms
To file a Statement of Use (SOU) and convert an ITU application to actual use after a notice of allowance (NOA) issues; or to file an extension request after a NOA issues; or to file an Amendment to Allege Use (AAU) and convert an ITU application to actual use before a NOA issues; or to respond to an Intent-to-Use Unit Office action.  Note: To file a new application having an “intent-to-use” filing basis, you must access the form at #1., above.

4. Post-approval/publication/post-notice of allowance (noa) amendment forms
To request amendment (1) after an application has been approved for publication or actually published; (2) after an extension of time to oppose has been filed; or (3) after a notice of allowance (NOA) has issued; or to delete a Section 1(b) basis after a NOA issues. Note: For additional information on actions that may be taken after a Notice of Allowance has issued (e.g., filing a request to divide), see http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/MoreInfo_SOU_EXT.jsp. 

5. Correspondence and attorney/domestic representative forms
To file: a change of correspondence address, a change of owner's address, or a change of domestic representative's address; a withdrawal of attorney or domestic representative; a revocation/appointment of attorney/domestic representative; a request to replace attorney of record with another already-appointed attorney.  Note: For additional information on use of the various online TEAS forms for the withdrawal, removal, replacement, or appointment of an attorney of record, see the Practice Tip. 

6. Petition forms
To file: a petition to revive an abandoned application; a petition to amend the basis of an application after publication; a petition to the Director under Trademark Rules 2.146 and 2.148; a letter of protest and similar matters; a response to a Petitions Office letter

7. Miscellaneous forms
To file: a voluntary amendment prior to publication that is not in response to USPTO Office action/Letter; a request that the application examination process be terminated (an "express abandonment"); a request to divide an application NOT filed with an allegation of use (to file WITH an allegation of use, see the overall category "Intent-to-use (ITU) forms," above) 

8. Registration maintenance/renewal/correction forms
To make required maintenance filings between the 5th and 6th year after the registration date (Section 8) and between the 9th and 10th year after the registration date (Section 8 & 9); to claim that a mark is now incontestable (Section 15); to request amendment or correction of a registration certificate (Section 7); to surrender a registration; to request to divide a registration; to file a Section 12(c) affidavit; to submit the required maintenance filings under Section 71 for a registered extension of protection (Madrid Protocol); to respond to a Post-Registration Division Office action 

9. Assignment forms
To file: assignments; change of name; other conveyances of title 

10. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board forms
To file all submissions to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board; e.g., oppositions, cancellations, notices of appeal after final actions 

11. Madrid Protocol forms
To file: an application for International Registration; a subsequent designation; a response to notice of irregularity; a request for replacement or transformation 

Other Resources

System availability: Check current server status and planned outages before beginning the filing process. Eastern Time controls for purposes of determining whether your TEAS filing was timely filed. Any submission that arrives as of 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time will be given that day's filing date regardless of the USPTO's regular business hours. If you have a filing due today and the document cannot be filed via TEAS, you must use an alternative method of filing to ensure that the document is timely received by the USPTO.

Upload schedule: Most filings made through TEAS are uploaded into the USPTO's Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) system within 4-5 business days. If that amount of time has passed and your filing is still not appearing, please e-mail TSDR@uspto.gov; however, if the problem specifically relates to an electronic filing issue, use TEAS@uspto.gov.


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