The USPTO has announced that trademark fees in the United States will be undergoing significant increases on January 18, 2025. Here is a summary of the changes.
Application Fees
You will no longer enjoy a discounted fee for filing a TEAS-Plus application instead of a TEAS-Standard application. All applications. other than applications filed under the Madrid Protocol, will require a fee of $350 per class. For Madrid applications, the fee is $600 per class.
Additional fees must be paid in the following situations:
- Insufficient information in the application: $100
- Use of a custom-made identification of goods or services (as distinguished from using one of the pre-approved descriptions appearing in the Trademark ID Manual): $100
- Each additional group of 1,000 characters over the first 1,000 characters in an identification: $200.
Madrid applications are not subject to these additional fees.
Statement of Use Fees
Beginning January 18, 2025, filing a Statement of Use or an Amendment to Allege Use will cost $150 each instead of $100.
Maintenance Fees
The filing fee for a declaration of use under Section 8 or 71 will be $325 per class instead of $225 per class.
The filing fee for an affidavit of incontestability under Section 15 will be $250 per class.
The filing fee for a Section 9 registration will be $350.
In conjunction with the Trademark Office’s new audit program, these fee increases provide a strong incentive to review your registration portfolio to see if there are any registrations, or registration classes, that should be removed.
You can find a full list of the fee changes here.
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