USPTO Increases Trademark Filing Fees

The USPTO released a final rule detailing increases for trademark fees that will be effective January 2, 2021. This will increase application and renewal fees as follows:
Application and application-related fees
- TEAS Standard: $350 per class
Up from $275 per class - TEAS Plus: $250 per class
Up from $225 per class - Processing fee for failing to meet TEAS Plus requirements: $100 per class
Down from $125 per class
Post registration fees
- Section 8 or 71 declaration filed through TEAS: $225 per class
Up from $125 per class
In addition to the existing application and renewal fee increases, there will also be a new fee for deleting goods, services, and/or classes from a registration after submitting a section 8 or 71 declaration, but before the declaration is accepted, of $250 per class if filed through TEAS.
This rule will also increase and create new fees pertaining to petitions and TTAB filings:
Petition to the Director and letter of protest fees
- Petition to the Director filed through TEAS: $250
Up from $100 - Petition to revive an abandoned application filed through TEAS: $150
Up from $100 - New fee for letter of protest: $50 per application
TTAB fees
- Petition to cancel filed through ESTTA: $600 per class
Up from $400 per class - Notice of opposition filed through ESTTA: $600 per class
Up from $400 per class - Initial 90-day extension requests for filing a notice of opposition, or second 60-day extension requests for filing a notice of opposition, filed through ESTTA: $200 per application
Up from $100 per application - There is still no fee for a first 30-day extension request for filing a notice of opposition, filed through ESTTA.
- Final 60-day extension request for filing a notice of opposition, filed through ESTTA: $400 per application
Up from $200 per application - Ex parte appeal filed through ESTTA: $225 per class
Up from $200 per class - New fee for second, and subsequent, requests for an extension of time to file an appeal brief in an ex parte appeal filed through ESTTA: $100 per application
- There is still no fee for a first request.
- New fee for appeal briefs in an ex parte appeal filed through ESTTA: $200 per class
- New fee for requests for oral hearings: $500 per proceeding
For more information about this, see the Final Rule published here in the Federal Register on November 17, 2020.