Required documents of Trademark renewal in the US

When you file a required maintenance document, you’ll submit a signed declaration saying that you’re continuing to use your trademark with the goods and services in your registration. You’ll also submit one sample of your your trademark for each class of goods or services.

Required maintenance documents

You should determine your maintenance document if you meet the requirements to maintain your registration. If your registration gets audited, you’ll need to provide more proof of use. If you don’t provide acceptable proof of use, you’ll need to provide proof of use for every good and service listed in your registration in the audited classes, delete any goods and services for which you can’t prove use, and pay a fee for each class with deletions.

Once you own a trademark registration, you must do a few important things to maintain that registration and keep it alive. First, you must use your trademark in commerce. Additionally, you must file certain documents at regular intervals to show that you’re continuing to use your trademark. If you don’t file these documents before the deadline, your registration will be canceled or will expire, or your extension of protection to the U.S. will be invalidated (if you filed via WIPO under the Madrid system). Exceptions to the requirement to use your trademark are rare.

You must file these documents within these deadlines to keep your trademark registration alive:

• Between the fifth and sixth years after the registration date
• File a Declaration of Use and/or Excusable Nonuse under Section 8
• Between the ninth and 10th years after the registration date
• File the first Declaration of Use and/or Excusable Nonuse and an Application for Renewal under sections 8 and 9
• Every 10 years after that (between the 19th and 20th years, 29th and 30th years, etc.)
• File subsequent Declarations of Use and/or Excusable Nonuse and an Application for Renewal under sections 8 and 9

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