Trademarks · Renewals
A registration can last forever. Miss one window and it doesn’t.
Between years five and six, and then every ten years, the USPTO wants proof you’re still using your mark. Miss a deadline and there’s a six-month grace period with a surcharge. Miss that too and the registration is cancelled, and you’re back at the end of the line.
Check what’s due, right now.
Between the fifth and sixth years after your trademark was registered, you file a Section 8 declaration showing how you’re still using the mark. Every ten years, you file a combined Section 8 and 9 renewal. Each of these filings needs a picture showing how you’re actually using the trademark and an accurate statement of which goods and services you’re still in the business of.
We handle renewals for marks we filed, and we’re happy to handle renewals for marks we didn’t. If you inherited a registration, bought a company, or your old attorney retired, send us the registration number and we’ll tell you what’s due, and when.
We’ve carried hundreds of registrations through renewal. The same team at year one and year ten is the point.