The USPTO has announced that it is increasing its fees in 2025 as follows:
•Application fees are presently either $250 or $350. The USPTO has done away with the $250 fee; every application will be $350 for each trademark in each class.
•There’s a new fee for “insufficient information” including failure to provide a translation of the applied-for mark. The new fee is $100 per class, per mark.
•Another $100 increase is for Madrid Protocol filings. The USPTO then sends these international applications to WIPO and will charge $600 per class on top of the filing fee that each country’s IP office may charge.
•If an applicant has a long string of words to describe the goods/services for their trademark, there will be a new $200 fee to file more than a thousand characters of text.
•Note that if/when a registration is audited the USPTO charges a $250 fine per class to delete any goods from the class of goods.
•To file an amendment to allege use, or to file a statement of use, is going up from $100 to $150 per class.
•Filing a fifth-year declaration of use and incontestability will increase by $150 per class, up to $575 and filing a 10th-year renewal application will increase by $125, up to $650.
