USPTO Trademark Fee Calculator

Since January 2025 the USPTO charges one base fee per class and adds surcharges for applications that skip its pre-approved wording or leave out required information. For anyone filing on intent to use, the Statement of Use and any extensions add more, all of it per class, and keeping the registration alive costs money again at years five to six and ten. Set your filing up below and the calculator adds it up the way the fee schedule does.

Assumes electronic filing and no fee changes before your later deadlines. Fees for responding late to an Office Action, petitions, oppositions and Madrid filings are not included.

Three Filings, Priced Out

The third line shows where costs come from. Writing your own description added $400 at filing; filing before launch added $800 by the time the mark registered — the Statement of Use plus two six-month extensions, each charged per class. Choosing ID Manual entries and filing once you are selling would have saved $1,200 of that.

Where the Money Goes

Classes multiply everything. The base fee, every surcharge, the Statement of Use, each extension and every maintenance filing are charged per class. In our analysis of USPTO data, 84.2% of U.S. applications filed in the first half of 2025 named a single class — most filers keep it to one, and add classes only for what they actually sell.

The surcharges are avoidable. The ID Manual is the USPTO's list of pre-approved descriptions of goods and services. Picking entries from it avoids the $200 free-form surcharge and the character surcharge; filling in every required field avoids the $100 insufficient-information surcharge. These three exist to steer filers toward complete, standard applications.

Intent to use costs extra, but buys time. Filing before launch secures your priority date. The price is a $150-per-class Statement of Use once you start selling, and $125 per class for each six-month extension you need. The first extension is yours on request; the next four need a showing of good cause, and all of them together can't run past 36 months from the notice of allowance.

Maintenance is not optional. Between the fifth and sixth anniversaries of registration you file a Section 8 declaration of use; in the year before the tenth anniversary, Section 8 and Section 9 together; then every ten years. Missing a window by less than six months costs a $100-per-class surcharge. Missing the grace period too ends the registration. In our count of U.S. registrations issued in 2018, 53.4% were cancelled at that first Section 8 deadline.

Common Questions

Is the $350 per application or per class?

Per class. A two-class application starts at $700 before any surcharge.

Do these numbers include an attorney?

No. They are the fees the USPTO charges. Applicants domiciled outside the United States must be represented by a U.S. attorney, so their real cost includes legal fees on top.

What isn't in the calculator?

Fees that depend on how the examination goes, such as a $125 request for more time to answer an Office Action, a $250 petition to revive an abandoned application, appeals and oppositions. Applications through the Madrid Protocol follow a different fee route.