[E-trademarks] 2025 Trademark Fee Change Coincidence?

[Ken Boone]

Besides the new 2025 trademark fees (and rules), what other change for trademarks will likely occur on January 18th?

Well, checking the remaining unused serial numbers in the 98 series for new TEAS applications …

The highest TEAS serial number for 12/16/24 is 98906253.

Looking back 7 weeks, the highest TEAS serial number for 11/01/24 is 98836906.

Subtracting 98836906 from 98906253, for that 42-day period, new TEAS applications exhausted a range of 69,347 consecutive serial numbers, an average of 1651 serial numbers per day.

Since serial numbers 98975000 and above are reserved for divisional applications, only 68,746 serial numbers remain for new TEAS applications in the 98 series before that series is exhausted and a new series will be needed.

Dividing, 68,746 serial numbers ÷ 1651 serial numbers per day = 41 days.  That is, the 98 series will be exhausted about 41 days after December 16th (around January 26th), assuming the rate of new TEAS applications for the last 7 weeks doesn't vary too much in the next 7 weeks.

So, as the new 2025 trademark fees begin January 18th, just about a week before the 98 series is projected to be exhausted, I'm guessing that TEAS will begin using a new series, presumably the 99 series, to make it easier to recognize TEAS applications filed under the new 2025 rules/fees (the 99's) versus the current rules/fees (the 98's).  That's just my guess.

Does this coincidence make you wonder if the projected end of the 98 series influenced the selection of Saturday, January 18th as the starting date for the new 2025 trademark fees?

Also, recall that federal offices will be closed on Monday, January 20th for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.  I vaguely recall that something else is scheduled for that Monday.

Then there's a bigger question, namely what series comes next after the 99-series is exhausted?  But I'll be retired long before that ...

Happy Trademarking,
Ken Boone
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