各位跨境卖家，美国商标投资者，注册美国商标需要尽快提上日程，美国商标将于2021年一月份上涨官费。本月找恒亦注册美国商标有优惠；我司可以为投资美国商标的老板们提供想名字、提供使用证明、注册等一条龙服务；
Summary of FY 2021 Final Trademark Fee Rule
终局规则:商标费调整
Final Rule: Trademark Fee Adjustment
最终规则将于2021年1月2日生效。这标志着多年审查和调整进程的结束。
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is setting and adjusting Trademark and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) fees for the first time in nearly three years through its FINAL RULES, effective January 2, 2021. This represents the end of a multi-year review and adjustment process.
更改后的费用 Fee changes
The main changes are shown below. See the FINAL RULE for all changes.
申请及申请相关费用 Application and application-related fees
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线下申请（纸质申请）的商标注册费从275美元提升至350美元
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TEAS Standard: $350 per class
Up from $275 per class
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TEAS Plus: $250 per class
Up from $225 per class
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Processing fee for failing to meet TEAS Plus requirements: $100 per class
Down from $125 per class
Post registration fees
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Section 8 or 71 declaration filed through TEAS: $225 per class
Up from $125 per class
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New fee for deleting goods, services, and/or classes from a registration after submitting a section 8 or 71 declaration, but before the declaration is accepted: $250 per class if filed through TEAS
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There will be no fee if you electronically file a section 7 request to amend your registration before submitting a section 8 or 71 declaration and only delete goods, services, and/or classes in the request (otherwise, the current fee for filing a section 7 request through TEAS is $100). Read below about why we’re implementing a fee for certain requests to delete goods, services, and/or classes.
Petition to the Director and letter of protest fees
指定董事费用从100美元提升至250美元
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Petition to the Director filed through TEAS: $250
Up from $100
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申请恢复被撤销商标的费用从100美元提升至150美元
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Petition to revive an abandoned application filed through TEAS: $150
Up from $100
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New fee for letter of protest: $50 per application
TTAB fees
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Petition to cancel filed through ESTTA: $600 per class
Up from $400 per class
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Notice of opposition filed through ESTTA: $600 per class
Up from $400 per class
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Initial 90-day extension requests for filing a notice of opposition, or second 60-day extension requests for filing a notice of opposition, filed through ESTTA: $200 per application
Up from $100 per application
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There is still no fee for a first 30-day extension request for filing a notice of opposition, filed through ESTTA.
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Final 60-day extension request for filing a notice of opposition, filed through ESTTA: $400 per application
Up from $200 per application
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Ex parte appeal filed through ESTTA: $225 per class
Up from $200 per class
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New fee for second, and subsequent, requests for an extension of time to file an appeal brief in an ex parte appeal filed through ESTTA: $100 per application
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There is still no fee for a first request.
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New fee for appeal briefs in an ex parte appeal filed through ESTTA: $200 per class
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New fee for requests for oral hearings: $500 per proceeding
USPTO正在实施部分退款的撤销申请，如果取消只涉及不使用或放弃索赔，被告没有出现，没有提交的申请，除了撤销申请。
The USPTO is implementing partial refunds for petitions to cancel in default judgments if the cancellation involves only a nonuse or abandonment claim, the defendant didn’t appear, and there were no filings other than the petition to cancel.
线下申请费用变更 Paper filing fee changes
某些商标和TTAB文件被允许以书面形式提交的费用将增加，以抵消较高的处理成本。有关这些更改，请参阅最后的规则。
Fees for certain Trademark and TTAB filings that are permitted to be submitted on paper will increase to help offset their higher processing costs. See the Final Rule for these changes.
为什么美国商标局要更改商标和TTAB费用？
Why the USPTO is changing our Trademark and TTAB fees？
根据联邦收费标准，在2018年12月，USPTO开始了两年一次的费用、成本和收入审查，发现调整费用是必要的，以解决不断增加的成本，并为商标经营提供必要的资源，包括实施USPTO 2018-2022战略计划。
Consistent with federal fee-setting standards, in December 2018, the USPTO began its biennial review of fees, costs, and revenues, and found that fee adjustments were necessary to address increasing costs and to provide necessary resources for Trademark operations, including implementing the USPTO 2018-2022 Strategic Plan.
2019年8月，USPTO发布了一份《联邦登记册》公告，宣布计划行使其设定费用的权力来设定或调整商标费用。2019年9月，商标公共咨询委员会(TPAC)在弗吉尼亚州亚历山大市举行了一场公开听证会，邀请公众就费用调整提交书面和/或口头意见。TPAC考虑了这次听证会的公众意见，这些意见已在USPTO的网站上公布。2019年10月31日，TPAC提交了一份书面报告，阐述了公众和委员会的意见、建议和建议。
In August 2019, the USPTO published a FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE, to announce plans to exercise its fee-setting authority to set or adjust Trademark fees. In September 2019, the Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC) held a public hearing in Alexandria, Virginia, inviting members of the public to submit written and/or oral comments on fee adjustments. The TPAC considered the public comments from this hearing, which were made available on the USPTO website. On October 31, 2019, the TPAC provided a written report setting forth the comments, advice, and recommendations of the public and the committee regarding the proposed fees.
USPTO考虑和分析了所有来自TPAC的评论、建议和建议，然后，在2020年6月19日，发布了一份公告，提议制定规则，关于设置和调整商标费用。美国专利商标局收到并考虑了公众的意见。对评论的回复包含在最终规则中。
The USPTO considered and analyzed all comments, advice, and recommendations received from the TPAC and then, on June 19, 2020, published a NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING regarding setting and adjusting Trademark fees. The USPTO received and considered COMMENT, from the public. Responses to the comments are included in the Final Rule.
最近，USPTO还考虑了美国的经济状况，该机构的运作需求，以及从公众收到的意见和建议，以决定何时实施最终规则。USPTO根据所有这些考虑因素做出了调整，这与USPTO为利益相关者提供各种类型的救济的许多其他努力相一致，包括某些期限的延长和费用减免。最终，USPTO的目标不仅是确保企业和企业家能够经受住经济衰退，而且还要确保他们能够在经济衰退过去时立即投入工作。
More recently, the USPTO also considered the state of the U.S. economy, the operational needs of the agency, and the comments and advice received from the public in determining when to implement the Final Rule. The USPTO made adjustments based on all of these considerations, consistent with the USPTO’s many other efforts to provide various types of relief to stakeholders, including certain deadline extensions and fee waivers. Ultimately, the goal of the USPTO is to ensure not only that businesses and entrepreneurs can weather the economic downturn, but also that they can hit the ground running as it passes.
最终规则的总体策略是平衡合理和负担得起的费用计划与足够的多年收入，以收回维护美国专利商标局的商标相关业务的总成本，并完成美国专利商标局的商标相关战略目标。
The overall strategy of the Final Rule is to balance a reasonable and affordable fee schedule with sufficient multi-year revenue to recover the aggregate costs of maintaining the USPTO’s trademark-related operations and accomplishing the USPTO’s trademark-related strategic goals.
最终规则使美国专利商标局能够继续提高商标审查的质量，达到最佳审查时间，投资于现代化商标信息技术系统和基础设施，并为美国专利商标局的运作提供稳定性，即使在金融波动时期也是如此。
The Final Rule enables the USPTO to continue to enhance the quality of trademark examination, achieve optimal examination times, invest in modernizing trademark information technology systems and infrastructure, and provide stability to USPTO operations, even in times of financial fluctuations.
Letter of protest procedures codified
In addition to adjusting fees, we’re codifying the procedures for letters of protest. These procedures include modifications to our current practice in the Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure §§ 1715-1715.06 that encourage appropriate submissions to help us determine whether the submitted evidence supports a ground for refusal. These procedures will be effective January 2, 2021.
Some of the requirements state that you must:
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Provide an itemized evidence index.
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Submit no more than 10 items of evidence or 75 total pages, absent special circumstances.
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Pay a $50 fee per letter of protest. The fee will help us to recover a portion of our processing costs without placing an undue burden on third-party filers.
These requirements encourage the filing of timely, relevant, and well-supported letters of protest, which ultimately strengthen the integrity of the register.
为什么我们要对从注册中删除商品和服务的某些请求收取费用
Why we’re implementing a fee for certain requests to delete goods and services from a registration
如果在第8节或第71节声明被提交但尚未被接受之前，从注册中删除货物、服务或类的请求被提交，我们将收取费用。如果在第8节或第71节声明之前提出申请，我们不会收取费用。如果第8节或第71节声明没有指定所有的商品，服务，或类别在注册中列出，我们不会收取额外的费用-你将只支付第8节或第71节声明的申请费。在这种情况下，所有未包括在声明中的商品、服务或类都将从注册中删除。
We’ll charge a fee if a request to delete goods, services, or classes from a registration is filed after a section 8 or section 71 declaration is filed but before it’s accepted. We won’t charge a fee if the request is filed before a section 8 or section 71 declaration is filed. If the section 8 or section 71 declaration doesn’t specify all of the goods, services, or classes listed in the registration, we won’t charge an additional fee—you’ll only pay the filing fee for the section 8 or section 71 declaration. In this situation, all of the goods, services, or classes not included in the declaration would be deleted from the registration.
如在第8条或第71条声明的提交和接受之间作出删除，则收取此费用，可鼓励登记人:
Charging this fee for deletions made between the filing and acceptance of the section 8 or section 71 declaration will improve the integrity of the register by encouraging registrants to:
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尽快确定其注册商标不再使用的商品、服务或注册类别。
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Determine sooner the goods, services, or classes in the registration for which their registered trademark is no longer in use.
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在申报前或第8节或第71节申报前，应将该货物、服务或类别从登记中删除。
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Delete those goods, services, or classes from the registration before filing or within their section 8 or 71 declaration.
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More quickly comply with statutory requirements regarding claims of use.
您可以在任何时候通过提交第7条请求来删除商品或服务。我们越早得到关于商品或服务不使用商标的通知，我们就能越早更新注册。这将有助于确保每个人在搜索商标注册时都能获得有关注册商标的最准确和最新的信息。
You can delete goods or services at any time by filing a section 7 request. The sooner we’re notified about nonuse of a trademark for goods or services, the sooner we can update the registration. This will help ensure everyone is accessing the most accurate and up-to-date information about registered trademarks when they search the trademark register.
