How to file a "Statement of Use"
Required After "Intent to Use" Trademark Registrations
An "Intent to Use" trademark application is approved by the issuance of a "Notice of Allowance" which gives the applicant 6 months from the date of its issuance to file an on-line "Statement of Use" form.
- CLICK HERE for an easy to understand explaination of "Intent to Use" trademark applications
Instructions for Filing
Statement of Use
- If you want the Small Business Legal Clinic to help you with the Statement of Use, send an email to the Clinic's director John Little (johnlittle@fiuclinic.org) to request the assistance ... otherwise following the instructions below.
- Go to the USPTO log-in page. If you have a personal USPTO account log-in. If you can't remember the username and password from your personal account OR you never had a personal account, you must create a new account. Using the above link click "Create an Account" then follow the instructions to create the new account then log-in
- After logging in click the link for "Respond to a Notice of Allowance" (found under the heading "Trademark Form Finder")
- Doing that will take you to a submenu. Click "File Statement of Use"
- Doing that will take you to the Statement of Use form (labled "Allegaion of Use, Statement of Use/Amendment to Allege")
- Enter your trademark application's "serial number" (which you can find on the receipt that was emailed to you when you first filed your trademark application).
- Nothing else needs to be done on that page. Click "continue" on the bottom.
- On the next page follow the instructions to upload the digital images ("specimens").
CLICK HERE for a tutorial on how to create specimens