Madrid Protocol for international trademark registration
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As of January 18, 2025, Trademark Center is where you can file a new trademark application, pay application-related fees, and use the docketing feature to track the status of applications filed through Trademark Center. See more abouttrademark fee information.
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Identity verification
Identity verification is mandatory for USPTO.gov account holders to file through trademark filing systems. For most users, this one-time verification process can be completed online in less than 15 minutes. We also offer a paper verification process for those who do not wish to verify online.
For more information, see identity verification for trademark filers.
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1.Base Application
- Apply for a trademark, service mark,collective membership mark,certification mark, orcollective mark
2. Response forms
- 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)
- Request an extension of time to respond to an office action for applications
- Respond to an Intent-to-Use Unit (ITU) office action
- Respond to a Post-Registration office action
- Respond to a Petitions Office letter
3. Intent-to-use (ITU) forms
- File a Statement of Use and convert an ITU application to actual use after a notice of allowance (NOA) issues
- File an extension request after a NOA issues
- File an Amendment to Allege Use and convert an ITU application to actual use before a NOA issues
- Respond to an ITU Unit Office action
4. Post-approval/publication/post-notice of allowance (NOA) amendment forms
- Request amendment after an application has been approved for publication or actually published
- Request amendment after an extension of time to oppose has been filed
- Request amendment after a notice of allowance (NOA) has issued
- Delete a Section 1(b) basis after a NOA issues
- File a petition to amend the basis of an application after publication
5. Correspondence and attorney/domestic representative forms
- File a change of address or representation, including:
- Change of owner's address (resulting in a change of correspondence address if owner is not represented by an attorney)
- Change of attorney's address (resulting in a change of correspondence address)
- Change of attorney bar information
- Change of domestic representative's address
- Withdrawal of domestic representative
- Revocation/appointment of attorney/domestic representative
- Request to replace attorney record with another already-appointed attorney
- File withdrawal of attorney
6.Petition forms
- File a petition to revive an abandoned application
- File a petition to amend the basis of an application after publication
- File a Petition to Director under Trademark Rules 2.146, 2.147, and 2.148
- File a letter of protest and similar matters
- File a response to a Petitions Office letter
- File a petition for U.S. Office of Origin ("outbound") international applications
7.Expungement or Reexamination forms
- Petition for Expungement or Reexamination
- Response to a Post-Registration office action
- Request for Extension of Time
8.Miscellaneous forms
- File a voluntary amendment prior to publication that is not in response to USPTO Office action/Letter
- File a request that the application examination process be terminated (an "express abandonment")
- File a request to divide an application NOT filed with an allegation of use (to file WITH an allegation of use, see the overall category ITU forms, above)
- Order a printed presentation copy of your trademark registration certificate
9.Registration maintenance/renewal/correction forms
- Make required maintenance filings between the fifth and sixth year after the registration date (Section 8)
- Make required maintenance filings between the ninth and 10th year after the registration date (Section 8 & 9)
- Claim that a mark is now incontestable (Section 15)
- Request amendment or correction of a registration certificate (Section 7)
- Surrender a registration
- Request to divide a registration
- File a Section 12(c) affidavit
- Submit the required maintenance filings under Section 71 for a registered extension of protection (Madrid Protocol)
- Respond to a Post-Registration Division office action
- Order a printed presentation copy of your trademark registration certificate
10.Assignment forms
File assignments, name changes, and other conveyances of title
11.Trademark Trial and Appeal Board forms
File all submissions to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, such as oppositions, cancellations, notices of appeal, after final actions.
12.Madrid Protocol forms
- File an application for International Registration
- File a subsequent designation
- File a response to notice of irregularity
- File a request for replacement
- File a request for transformation
- File a petition for U.S. Office of Origin ("outbound") international applications
Resources
- TEAS FAQs: most commonly asked questions/answers
- Web browser information for using TEAS
- Index of all trademark forms: convenient index of forms for experienced users
- USPTO Financial Manager: news on the USPTO's new fee payment management system
System availability
Checkcurrent 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 analternative 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 four to five business days. If that amount of time has passed and your filing is still not appearing,contact the Trademark Assistance Center. However, if the problem specifically relates to an electronic filing issue, email TEAS@uspto.gov.