Research
Trademark research
Data articles built on the registers we index: the full USPTO file history of every U.S. application, and 5.3 million international (Madrid System) designation outcomes (974,457 of them across 119 offices in the resolved 2019–2022 cohort). Numbers refresh as the data updates; every figure links to its methodology and can be downloaded as CSV.
USPTO · Key figures
U.S. trademark registration statistics
How many U.S. trademark applications register, how long it takes, what an attorney changes, which classes are hardest, and how many Office Actions go unanswered. The key figures in one place, updated from USPTO data, free to cite.
USPTO · Madrid System
The USPTO provisionally refuses 96% of international trademark designations. Only 2.6% stand.
Nearly every Madrid System designation of the United States draws an office action, but almost all are overcome. Outcomes by origin country, Nice class, mark type and year, compared with 50 other offices.
USPTO · Examination
A third of trademark applicants who get an Office Action never answer it
We followed every U.S. trademark application filed over five years through its file history. Most Office Actions are survivable: four in five applicants who answer one go on to register. The ones that fail mostly just stop. By Nice class, attorney, and intent to use.
USPTO · Who files
Who files hundreds of U.S. trademarks a year? Increasingly, individuals in China
30 of the 100 biggest U.S. trademark filers in 2026 so far are individual people in China. What they file, why, and how their applications fare: 83% registered, against 53% for U.S. owners.
U.S. owners · Madrid System
Where U.S. trademark owners get refused abroad
Refusal rates for U.S.-origin international registrations in 60+ countries: under 1% in Australia and the UK, around half in China and Thailand, and which offices are hard on paper but lenient in the end.