The one major market where use, not filing, sits at the centre of the system. A registration here is only as strong as the evidence that you are actually selling under the mark.
No utility model system. Design patents are examined rather than merely registered, which makes them slower to obtain and considerably harder for an infringer to knock out.
Rights arise from use in commerce, not from the filing date alone. Declarations of use fall due between years five and six and at every renewal, and the office audits them.
A mockup, a rendering or a website that cannot be ordered from will be refused. The specimen has to show the mark as customers actually encounter it at the point of sale.
Applicants domiciled outside the United States must be represented by a licensed US attorney. We coordinate that; you keep one point of contact.
The US grants design patents, not design registrations. They are examined, take longer than a registration elsewhere, and are correspondingly harder to attack.