USPTO Celebrates One Millionth Electronically Filed Trademark Application

by Glen Shapiro, LawAndTax-News.com, New York

16 January 2007

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) last week marked an important milestone in its history - the one-millionth Web-based trademark application using the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS).

This was commemorated on Wednesday at a ceremony at the USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, VA.

Donald Junck, an entrepreneur from Sioux Falls, SD, filed the one-millionth electronic trademark application in November 2006 to protect his trademark, Bait Craft, which is used for fishing tackle boxes.

Mr. Junck joined the most active corporate and law firm users of TEAS - Mattel, Inc., and the New York City-based law firm Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C. - in being recognized in Wednesday’s ceremony.

“As Donald Junck’s story so perfectly illustrates, TEAS is designed to make the trademark application system easy and accessible, no matter how large or small the business or where it is located,” announced Jon Dudas, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO.

He added:

“We are gratified that TEAS has reached this important milestone, and are proud that today 94% of all new trademark applications are filed electronically.”

TEAS launched as a pilot program in November 1997. It allows anyone in the world with Internet access to file applications electronically 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

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