No, you can only obtain registration protection (or unregistered protection in the UK and USA, among others) if you are actually using a distinctive brand on goods or services being traded in commerce. If you don't HAVE any goods/services, then you cannot possibly own any trademark. Once you DO use a trademark on your own goods/services, you automatically (instantly, for free) obtain trademark rights. You can optionally register your trademark.
@Hunch seems to be suggesting you use the USPTO "intent to use" trademark application, but it would be completely useless if you cannot describe your goods and services. Your application would be rejected as incomplete and no filing date recorded.
It is also a bit expensive: you could pay the initial online filing fee of $275 for each class of goods or services then you pay $150 every six months after your application is reviewed and "allowed", for up to 24 months after your first 6-month extension (a total of up to 3 years from allowance, for up to $750), a $100 fee when you DO file a "statement of use", then a $100 affidavit fee (Section 8) at 5 years, then the $400 renewal at 10 years and every 10 years after that. If you have goods/services in multiple classes, all fees are multiplied by the number of classes.
Under USA federal trademark laws, if you don't file the 5-year affidavit of use, your registration is automatically cancelled and you start over with a new one. So when @Hunch says "There are no more additional fees", he's apparently not ever had a federal registration for over 5 years, or else he's talking about the unregistered rights that everyone gets automatically, as long as they keep using the brand in commerce, registered or not.
A trademark is done through the federal government. There are application fees but once it's yours, it's yours. There are no more additional fees. To get a trademark you have to use it in commerce before the application is approved (this means make money off the mark). You have 3 years from when the application is completed until the application dies. If you don't use it in commerce within that 3 years, the application dies.
- you are actually give 6 months to use the mark, but you can continue renewing it for up to 3 years.
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You will get a letter every ten years asking for more money - that is how long a registration lasts before you have to renew it.
what i dont want is to pay for it now and then get a letter each week asking for more money
