US trademark registration fees to rise sharply in 2025

Effective January 18, 2025, the USPTO will significantly increase trademark registration fees, which will affect the costs of trademark applications, post-registration maintenance, and petitions and protests filed with the Director.

• The new fee structure will impose new fees on applications that do not meet a number of requirements that were previously raised and resolved by attorneys during the examination period. The following notable changes will have a significant impact on applicants’ fees:
• Applications that do not use USPTO pre-approved language in goods/service identification
• Product/service identification with more than 1,000 characters per class
• Properly classify goods/services and pay for all classes
• Evidence of use and date of first use for each category (if the application is use-based)
• Applications that do not submit the required declaration
• Applications that do not provide a translation or transliteration of non-English wording or non-Latin characters

In addition, all maintenance fees have increased, with declarations of use increasing by $100 per class and renewal fees increasing by $25 per class.