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all right so you're with me so far we perform the search it sounds like your mark is in the clear so you want to go ahead and follow this trade mark but you can use the TAS system at the USPTO and we're going to go through that with you now [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we're gonna take an example mark our brains mark for rock concerts and I'm going to show you how to prepare the online form and submit now we're going to go through the t's plus program the t's plus program makes it a little bit easier and it results in a grant or a registration of the trademark quicker than the other system okay so the other system is the t's produced feet so the T's plus makes you categorize your goods and services into specific USPTO approved descriptions whereas the t's reduced fee lets you describe in plain text what you're doing so if what you're doing is totally different from what is already out there unlikely there may be something even you know close already that has been filed for but if it's if it's different and you want to use different words t's reduced fee is the way to go if it's a market like a service or goods that's been out in the marketplace then you can just go with the regular T's plus and you save 50 bucks but it'll also be quicker a quicker prosecution process so just to go over the official fees for a single class and T's plus is 225 a single class in t's reduced fee is 275 and if you add classes it's just you know twice or three times that fee for the filing okay let's go to the form and see how to fill it I are on the USPTO main site and we're looking at trademarks and we want to apply online now here you see first time where you can get some basic information here down below here it goes there's the nuts and bolts video as well right here we're looking at the fee so we're filing at yz+ today and I'll show you how to do that it's got the lowest fees and because the products and services are pre vetted by the system you don't end up with an objection on that basis as I mentioned before if you have unique product or service that might not be listed the way you'd like to see them from previous you know applications at the USPTO processed you may want to file eighties reduced fee application right here which I'll let you put in free form goods and services okay so all correspondence has to be through your email but you're filing electronically so that should be no problem so let's go ahead down here number one initial application forms and click on that and we're gonna say we're gonna file a T's plus applications this is the first form that comes up now there is a whole bunch of small print and you should read this for your own knowledge a lot of its in there just simply boilerplate or before the USPTO to inform you of various you know various conditions and so on I'm not going to go through them at this point we're gonna go through the application and as you read through the application you could go through that small text so at the bottom here is an attorney filing the application no because we're filing it on our own behalf here and you can also save an application that is you know partially completed and and come back to it later using this second option here choose file so is an attorney filing this application no then we're gonna click continue okay now you come to the first page here is for the principal register so the owner of the mark will be you okay so let's call the name your individual John's just to make up a last name we if you're putting in a corporation you're gonna want to put some of this info if you're doing business as we're an individual in this example and we're based out of the USA we're gonna put our street address here one two three any town Road San Diego California putting in a zip code we have a fax number if you have one and your email address now this email address here will be the one that you get your notifications sent to so if we had say John's at gmail.com and you want to click to authorize the USPTO to communicate with the applicant via email now if you work through paper forms then you'll have to pay the additional fee for the regular t's application by filing electronically you can have access to the lower fees and then there's a website if you have one now it gives a warning a telephone number has not been entered although optional a telephone number will help you blah blah blah so a telephone number lets the attorney call you if they have any questions but the telephone number may also be published with the application so if you want to keep your telephone number private i wouldn't put your telephone number in this slot some people do like to receive info by telephone so that's up to you but just as a warning it may be public okay so here's our mark now you have the option here this this is where you were gonna pick whether it's a standard mark or a logo okay so this special character or standard characters is a standard word mark that's what we're filing today special form is if you have a logo if you have a logo you're also gonna have to describe what the logo looks like down below so just I'll just give you an example of the logo form so I'm just gonna click on here the logo changes now here you have a choose file you can upload an image of your logo in fact you have to upload a jpg image of your logo and here you're gonna insert the literal mark and here is a color claim section so if you have particular colors that you want to protect and associate with your mark you could put them there if not I recommend not making a color claim because you will be more limited to those colors so here is a description of your mark and you describe you know the elements of the mark that make up the design there's an example down below now because we're filing a text mark today I'm going to go back to this one and type in our mark now we're going to add the goods and services so we continue here this is the goods and services now because we've done T's plus we are limited to using their system to select the goods and services if you choose T's reduced fee then you can add some free form goods and services now as you recall and there's the search bar at the top as you recall we are going to of our CDs t-shirts and entertainment events like music concerts so we found that t-shirts had a very close previously registered mark in the database so I don't think we're gonna be successful with teachers we're going to have to use a different brand for our t-shirts and we're gonna remove them from this application because of our you know the results of the search so at this point we're gonna look at music CDs and we have here entertainment services name the musical band ok well that's actually works well for our ok so this one's over broad here we have musical band rock group 2 nastic dance and ballet performances so entertainment services in the nature of live visual and audio performances by so this would be a good one here for a rock bands but I was actually looking for the CD so since we found this are ready let's insert detect entries and then you need to insert for this one it needs this specification actors musical bands dancers etc so there we can put in rock bands okay and then we insert those entries and then it appears down here so that's the first one but we don't have them all we're gonna want them all listed here before we go on to the next section where we say whether the mark is already in use or whether we're tending to use it let's make sure we have CDs in there as well we do compact just okay here we go finally compact discs featuring music okay that's our choice I'm gonna insert those checked entries so now we have the two that we want it one is in there international class 9 the other is international class 41 this is the goods this is the service now we're gonna have to pay two filing fees because we have two classes and as a recall telling you they're both in use already so say we started using them back in September of this year so select one a ok so it wants us to click each of them individually so we we launched the first compact disc in September we're going to upload the specimen which in this case is going to be the CD cover touch it the application now we've added the CD cover that's for compact discs you can see which one you're adding the 180 for okay featuring the mark so first date of use whichever date you can definitely support that's what you should put in there and first use in commerce again this is going to relate to a sale in the normal course of business so make sure you put a date that you can definitely support like you have an invoice and the sale was made that day rather than just you know the date the website goes up okay so that looks good assign the filing basis now here you can see that this the filing basis has been assigned to the compact discs product so now we're going to click on the second one and we're also using that when the website went up the same day and we're going to attach the specimen for that that's a screenshot of the website so again we're gonna look at folder that I had made that website you types that file return to the application then the website showing advertising okay again it's September first men now putting in the filing basis if you use the mark then filing on a use basis will save you the extra fee of filing the statement of use down the line so if you file on and tend to use then before registration you'll have to file a specimen of useless extra hundred dollar official fee so if we are using it now it's good practice to put it into the application to expedite our our pilot okay so we're going to continue now we have whether there's a firm name we're gonna leave that firm name out we have the address information and we have an opportunity to put the email address here we don't need a secondary email but you could put one in if you like you authorized the USPTO to send email correspondence to you my telephone number again has not been entered so let's go back if you enter the telephone number in this spot then it's not going to if you enter the telephone number in this spot it's not going to be published with the owner information in the USPTO record so this is the spot where you want to put it also use these navigation bars at the bottom to get back and forth rather than your back key at the top because if you go back on a page it's going to give you an error message it's gonna find inconsistencies in the the navigation so if you use these you're not going to get that error message so two classes here it's giving us the the invoice fee per class is 225 total fee do is 450 so down here we have a declaration now you're swearing this so we look at all the the components of the declaration and ensure that they are true okay so you file for the basis you believe that the applicant is the owner of the trademark the mark and commerce the mark is in use in commerce or in connection with the goods and services the specimen shows the mark as used currently and the best and signatories knowledge and belief the facts recited are accurate if your intent to use this is what you're declaring and then we attest that we believe it is our you know we're entitled to the mark so that you don't know of anybody who is using that mark currently you have evidentiary support here you know false statements are punishable by fines and imprisonment okay then you're gonna sign here now you can sign between slashes whatever you want between the slash is but it's gonna be your signature so should be slash on the first and slash on the second side the date signed it will pre-populate that with today's date the signatory name in this case it's mr. John's signatories position owner phone number oops we had by five nine nine nine before and then we validate okay now we have an email address again that we're gonna use to confirm and we're gonna click this box down here to say we've read the above notice so take a look at this notice it's the important feature is that you have no right to confidentiality in the information it gets published and unscrupulous operators may take that information and send you bogus notices so you know if you receive further invoice 'as they tend to be bogus and please you know verify that it's a legitimate invoice before going ahead and paying just a word of warning these businesses are are more and more common these days and they will want to ensure application is published they will scrape for your address and and send out some notices okay so we can save the form here and this will give us a chance to put it into an obj format as just stuffed it in my dumb downloads here and then we can come back later on to the forum and at the very first page you can add that forum and load up the application that you'd saved and here's where you go to pay it and submit the application and then it will be considered by the USPTO once payment is made and so on so that is in a nutshell how to file a tease Plus application [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you