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Cost of Federal Registration

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Federal registration is not inexpensive. It’s about $2,000.00 to $3,000.00, usually, per mark. It will depend, in part, on the number of classes of goods or services you’re applying for.

There’s a classification system, and so you do apply for the mark with certain goods and services. Each class has about $300.00 – a filing fee to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, so if you’re just using it one class, that $2,000.00 to $3,000.00 is probably realistic. If you’re using it with – goods or services that fall into five different classes, you’re gonna have at least $1,500.00 in additional filing fees, so it gets more expensive, but that also assumes that you’ve done the clearance search, you have a good sense of the likelihood that your mark will be successfully registered, which you can find out from the clearance search. It can cost more if you end up encountering a lot of obstacles, rejections from the trademark office, or if a third party were to oppose your application during the application process. So it can be more expensive, but I think on average, that that’s about $2,000.00 to $3,000.00, and that money is not incurred up front. Typically, that money is incurred over the 12 to 24 months it will take for the registration to issue.

Minneapolis trademark attorney Jennifer Debrow explains how much federal registration costs.

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