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Recommend Leverage Your Federal Trademark Registration with Customs' Help (Email)

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There’s a little-known way to maximize the value of a federal trademark registration — recording it with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Taking this extra step (and paying the $190 fee required to do so) puts your trademark on Customs’ radar screen. It helps put the government to work for you stopping counterfeit goods bearing your trademark at the border.

Besides alerting Customs about its mark, the owner of a federal trademark registration can provide additional information to help stop counterfeit goods from entering the States, such as the place authentic goods are manufactured; the authorized port of entry into the States; and what authentic goods look like. When Customs inspects goods bearing the registrant’s trademark that do not match this criteria, it will seize the goods and contact the trademark owner to determine whether the goods are real or fake.


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