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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Important deadlines: Submit your trademark initial application soon</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Submit your trademark initial applications before these deadlines to avoid losing your work:</span></div>
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For initial applications in progress, submit by <span style="font-weight: bolder;">
December 31.</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
For applications started on or after January 1, submit by <span style="font-weight: bolder;">
January 17.</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">See how these </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 118, 163); font-weight: 600;"><u><a href="https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/apply/trademark-center" target="_blank" id="OWA22cb3439-4d9a-1f3a-fe78-135c68cb7a94" class="OWAAutoLink" title="Trademark Center beta is here" rel="noreferrer noopener" data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-uuid="163a89f9-49ea-4b52-b576-36d4d02ffc2c" data-entity-type="node" style="color: rgb(0, 118, 163); margin-bottom: 0px;">deadlines
affect your application</a></u></span><span style="font-weight: 700;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Important deadlines: Submit your trademark initial application soon </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bolder;">December 31, 2024:</span> Every year, the ID Manual is updated on January 1. This affects our filing systems in different ways. </div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) initial applications:
</span>You must submit in-progress initial applications by December 31 at 11:59 p.m. ET. You can\u2019t use your previously saved OBJ files and in-progress electronic signature requests after the December 31 update. </div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Trademark Center:</span> You\u2019ll continue to have access to your drafts. If you don\u2019t submit the application by December 31, you must re-enter your goods and services and resend
any outstanding electronic signature requests. </div>
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<span style="font-weight: bolder;">January 17, 2025:</span> This is the last day to file an initial application in TEAS, and the last day to apply under the current fee schedule. </div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">TEAS:</span> If you start an application in TEAS on or after January 1, you must submit it by January 17 at 11:59 p.m. ET. You can\u2019t transfer your saved application OBJ files
and in-progress electronic signature requests to Trademark Center. </div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Trademark Center:</span> You must complete all electronic signature requests and submit any draft applications by January 17 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Saved drafts will be removed
from your \u201cMy drafts\u201d tab. </div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bolder;">January 18, 2025:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> The
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 94, 162); font-weight: 600;"><u><a href="https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/fees-payment-information/summary-2025-trademark-fee-changes" target="_blank" id="OWAc2f7adda-e9ea-2a98-7386-362a4d57aaa2" class="Hyperlink SCXW16463220 BCX0 OWAAutoLink" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="color: rgb(0, 94, 162);">new
fees</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> will be in effect. The TEAS initial application forms will be retired, and Trademark Center will be the only place to file a trademark application. These five initial application forms in Trademark Electronic
Application System will be retired:</span></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;">Trademark/Servicemark Application, Supplemental Register\u202f </div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;">Certification Mark Application, Principal Register\u202f </div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;">Collective Membership Mark Application, Principal Register\u202f </div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;">Collective Trademark/Servicemark Application, Principal Register\u202f </div>
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