UCF Research Guides: Trademarks: USPTO Links

Basic Facts About Trademarks

View the brochure Basic Facts About Trademarks by the USPTO.

Trademark Electronic Business Center

Explore the different tools available to you in preparation for filing a Trademark Application:

TESS (Trademark Electronic Search Systems)
Search pending and registered marks
TEAS (Trademark Electronic Application System)
File applications and other documents online
TSDR (Trademark Status and Document Retrieval)
Check the status of an application and view and download application and registration records.
ASSIGN (Assignment Database)
Transfer (assign) ownership of a mark to another entity or change the owner name.
DASHBOARD
Statistics on activities associated with patents, trademarks, Office of Policy and International Affairs, Patent Trial and Appeal Board,and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

TTAB (Trademark Trial and Appeal Board)

Overview
The Board's administrative trademark judges are authorized to determine a party’s right to register a trademark with the federal government
News and Notices regarding the Board

International Classification of Goods & Services

Trademark ID Manual

Trademark Geographical Indicators

"Geographical indications can be viewed as a subset of trademarks. Geographical indications serve the same functions as trademarks, because like trademarks they are:

1)Source-identifiers

2)Guarantees of quality

3)Valuable business interests."

Click HERE to see a further description of Trademark Geographical Indicators.