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What? Where can you register online? In Canada you basically have to hire a lawyer and the wait time for issuance is crazy. The backlog peaked at a 4 year wait after Covid.

I’d love to be able to register an trademark online.

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Register a US trademark on line here: [1]

Current wait times: [2] About 4 months to first reply, 10 months to issue.

I've registered ANIMATS, DOWNSIDE, and SITETRUTH. It's not hard.

[1] https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/apply

[2] https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/application-timeline

So it has to be a US trademark? Even for businesses outside of the US? That seems a bit of a racket. Unless it depends on the TLD and you're saying it because it's a .com?

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