Overall Overview

The United States is a country that implements case law (i.e., unwritten law). Therefore, court precedents play an important role in handling trademark disputes and the development of trademark law in the United States. .

U.S. trademark registration adopts the principle of first-to-use trademark protection, and evidence of use will be required when submitting a trademark application.

Subject qualifications

Applicants for U.S. trademark registration can be those who have already used the trademark in U.S. commerce, or those who sincerely intend to use the trademark in U.S. commerce.

Application process

The main process of U.S. trademark registration: application stage (actual use application, when applying, submit photos of products with logos and screenshots of orders sold to the United States, which will not produce Additional service fee for submitting evidence of use; for intention-to-use applications, if the evidence of use is resubmitted within 6 months after authorization, a certain service fee for resubmitting evidence of use will be incurred) → Review stage (if the application meets the most basic formal requirements, then The application will be assigned to an examiner, who will examine the mark applied for registration to see whether it complies with the provisions of the law, whether it conflicts with a registered trademark, and whether it can be registered)? →? Announcement /Objection stage (announcement period is 1 month. Anyone can file an objection to the trademark application during the announcement period) →?Registration stage (if no objection is received during the trademark announcement period, the Trademark Office will approve the US trademark registration).