USPTO Patent and Trademark Fee Changes in 2025
Trademark Fee Changes in 2025
The USPTO trademark fees are set to change on January 18, 2025. A summary of the changes can be found on the USPTO website, and the rule implementing the changes can also be found there.
Trademark Application Fee Changes
Before the changes, the USPTO offered a TEAS Plus application, with a filing fee of $250. Standard applications required a $350 fee. Standard applications were required for custom descriptions of goods and services.
Now, there will be no TEAS Plus applications. The standard application price will be $350, and custom descriptions will cost an additional $200.WIPO filing fees will increase from $500 to $600.For applications filed on an intent-to-use basis, the fee for a statement of use will increase from $100 to $150.
Maintenance Fee Changes
Maintenance fees are required every 5 years, along with a registration renewal and declaration of continued use. A registration renewal will increase by $25, and a declaration of continued use by $100. The optional declaration of incontestability will increase by $50.
Petition Fee Changes
The fee for a petition to revive an abandoned application is increasing from $150 to $250. Other application petitions will increase from $250 to $400. Additionally, letters of protest will increase from $50 to $150.
Patent Fee Changes in 2025
Patent fees will undergo various changes in 2025. Detailed information can be found here, including a helpful PowerPoint presentation.
Continuing Application Fee Changes
Continuing applications claim benefit to an earlier-filed application. If these benefit claims are made after six or nine years, the fee for the continuing application is increasing by 23% and 14% respectively.
There was a proposed change for requests for continued examination to incorporate an increasing fee for subsequent requests. However, the USPTO settled on a flat 14% increase to the RCE fee starting on the second request.
Design Application Fee Changes
Design patent applications are receiving fee increases because the USPTO’s cost to examine these applications, especially for micro entity applications, exceeds the amount of money collected by the current fees. All aspects of design patent applications are receiving fee increases. The application and CPA filing fees are increasing by 36%, the search fee by 88%, the examination fee by 9%, and the issue fee by 76%. However, these fee increases only result in an average increase of about $100 per item for micro entities (except the issue fee, which is an over $500 increase).
International design applications will receive filing fee increases of about $840 for micro entities.
Provisional Patent Fee Changes
Provisional patent applications occasionally receive a request to file missing parts or update the application. The fees for extensions of time to respond have actually been reduced because of the fact that provisional applications are not examined. Extensions of time in patent applications have a corresponding filing fee that increases each month, up to a maximum of 5 months. These fees are being reduced by roughly 80% for provisional applications. The new fees will be $50, $100, $200, $400, and $800 for micro entities.
Other Application Fee Changes
Other aspects of patent applications are receiving fee increases as well. This includes information disclosure statements with over 50 references, patent term extension requests, requests to suspend an application, and petitions to revive based on unintentional delay.
PTAB Fee Changes
The PTAB receives various proceedings, including inter partes review and post-grant review. These proceedings have fees for reviewing an initial set of claims (up to 20) and an additional fee for each claim in excess of 20. All of these fees are being increased by 25%.
A request for review of a PTAB decision will now come with a fee of about $452.
Additionally, all other PTAB fees are being increased by about 7.5%.
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