Trademark analytics: the U.S. trademark landscape, in numbers

Live statistics drawn from the federal trademark register, assignment records, and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings and decisions Marksy indexes — filings by year and class, registration outcomes, examiner behaviour, assignment trends and TTAB activity. Each dashboard opens to the full breakdown; the overview is free.

Overview

• Documents indexed — Total federal trademark records currently searchable on Marksy.

Applications

• Trademark applications by year — How many trademark applications were filed each year.
• Most popular trademark classes — The international classes of goods & services with the most filings.
• Application status breakdown — Where applications stand across the register (registered, pending, abandoned, ...).
• Word marks vs design marks — The split between standard-character (word) marks and design/stylized marks.
• Filing momentum (monthly) — Trademark applications filed per month.
• Filings per class, over time — How filing volume in each major class has shifted year over year.
• Mark drawing types — The mix of drawing codes - word marks, design marks, stylized text and more.
• Registration outcome by filing year — Of the marks filed each year, how many have registered so far.
• Most active trademark owners — The organizations holding the most trademark applications.
• Time to register (avg days) — Average days from filing to registration, by registration year - a pendency proxy.

Assignments

• Assignment recordings by year — Trademark ownership transfers recorded with the USPTO each year.
• Assignment momentum (monthly) — Ownership transfers recorded per month.
• Why ownership changes hands — Conveyance types behind recorded assignments (assignment, merger, security, ...).
• Marks per assignment — How many marks move in a single recorded transfer - one-offs vs portfolio deals.
• Conveyance mix, over time — How the reasons for recorded transfers have shifted year over year.
• Biggest acquirers of marks — Parties receiving the most trademark assignments (buyers / acquirers).
• Biggest sellers of marks — Parties transferring the most trademarks away (sellers / assignors).

Ttab

• TTAB proceedings by type — Oppositions, cancellations and other Trademark Trial & Appeal Board matters.
• TTAB proceedings by year — How TTAB dispute activity has trended over time.
• TTAB proceeding status — Pending vs terminated status mix across TTAB matters.
• Who appears before the Board — The split of party roles across proceedings (plaintiffs vs defendants).
• TTAB momentum (monthly) — Board proceedings filed per month.
• Dispute types, over time — How the kinds of Board disputes have shifted year over year.
• Most frequent TTAB litigants — The parties appearing in the most Board proceedings - the serial filers.

Company-level views live on the owner profile pages; examiner-level views on the examiner pages.