Trademark Tools & Links

• Trademark basics

  What to know before you file an application

• Trademark videos

  Videos on what to know before, during, and after you file an application

• Trademark Assistance Center

  Assists all customers, from first-time filers to legal professionals and experienced trademark applicants and registrants

• Search trademark database

  Search for trademark applications and registrations with Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)

  Search TESS
• Apply online

  Apply for a trademark, respond to a letter from the USPTO, maintain your registration, and more through the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)

• Check Status & View Documents

  Check your application status and filing due dates and view records in Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR)

  Search TSDR
• Trademark fee information

  Fees, payment methods, mailing addresses, and answers to fee questions

• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board

  Decides proceedings for trademark oppositions, cancellations, concurrent use and ex parte appeals

  File in ESTTA Search TTABVUE
• Trademark assignments: change & search ownership

  Transferring registration ownership, changing owner name

  File in ETAS Search assignments

• Guides, Manuals and Resources

  TMEP, TBMP, ID Manual, Design Code Manual, practice tips, and more

  Go to TMEP Go to TBMP
• Laws & Regulations

  U.S. Trademark law, proposed rules and comments, recent final rules, information about regulated products and activities

• Trademark Official Gazette

  Weekly publication of registered, renewed, and canceled registrations.

  Go to TMOG
• System Status

  System status and planned outages

• Trademark Documents for Prosecutors (Official Government Use Only)

  Certified documents for court proceedings

• Madrid Protocol

  Protection for marks in multiple countries through one international application

• Order Certified Copies

  Order certified documents with the USPTO ribbon and seal as well as the signature of an authorized certifying officer

• Contact Trademarks

  Phone and email contact information

• Trademark News & Updates

• See all Trademarks news & updates

• Subscribing to Trademark Alert Emails

  A reminder that one of the best ways to keep current with developments in the Trademark Operation is to subscribe to receive Trademarks Alerts emails. At the USPTO…

• Trademark updates & announcements

  The USPTO has begun sending courtesy e-mail reminders of upcoming post-registration maintenance filing deadlines for §§8 and 71 declarations and §9 renewals to registration owners. Get information on these reminders.