Year in Review

2025 in U.S. trademarks

2025 extended the recovery: applications rose about 5% on 2024, to roughly 625,000, the second year of growth in a row. The increase was narrow. Five classes supplied almost all of it: entertainment and education (41), software and IT services (42), electronics and software goods (9), pharmaceuticals (5) and business services (35). Many other classes were flat or down.

A read of the 2025 U.S. trademark filing year, drawn from USPTO bulk data. Below: the headline numbers, where the activity concentrated, who filed the most, and what's worth flagging beyond the totals.

625,615
Applications filed
+4.8%
YoY vs 2024
283,024
Already registered
213,716
Still pending

Five-year context

Total annual filings, 2021–2025. Locates this year's volume against the recent baseline.

2021
673,574
2022
551,244
2023
547,946
2024
597,126
2025
625,615

Filings by month, 2025

Within-year seasonality. Volume usually peaks in Q4 (year-end product launches) and dips around major U.S. holidays. Material deviation from that pattern is itself a signal.

Jan
61,399
Feb
38,420
Mar
53,133
Apr
52,860
May
48,493
Jun
50,490
Jul
54,898
Aug
53,769
Sep
56,098
Oct
53,055
Nov
49,081
Dec
53,919

Top 10 classes by filings, 2025

Where the trademark activity actually concentrated. Click any class for the full deep-dive.

  1. #1
    Class 9: Computers & Electronics 80,275 · 12.8% of year
  2. #2
  3. #3
    Class 35: Advertising & Business 69,565 · 11.1% of year
  4. #4
    Class 25: Clothing 64,029 · 10.2% of year
  5. #5
    Class 42: Computer & Scientific 59,015 · 9.4% of year
  6. #6
    Class 5: Pharmaceuticals 33,129 · 5.3% of year
  7. #7
    Class 3: Cosmetics & Cleaning 33,092 · 5.3% of year
  8. #8
    Class 28: Toys & Sporting Goods 30,545 · 4.9% of year
  9. #9
    Class 21: Housewares 29,158 · 4.7% of year
  10. #10
    Class 16: Paper Goods 25,621 · 4.1% of year

Most-active filers, 2025

The 10 entities that filed the most applications this year.

  1. #1 LIGHT & WONDER, INC. 677
  2. #2 Games Global USA Inc. 621
  3. #3 L'OREAL 455
  4. #4 L'Oreal USA S/D, Inc. 422
  5. #5 Allseason IpCo, LLC 403
  6. #6 Walmart Apollo, LLC 394
  7. #7 E. & J. Gallo Winery 374
  8. #8 Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. 332
  9. #9 IGT 328
  10. #10 Gannett Ventures LLC 308

Want this year-over-year context for your own filing? Use our class recommender to pin down which Nice classes apply, or check a proposed mark against the full registered corpus.

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