Foreign Trademark Owner Statistics

How many trademark records exists for foreign based owners? 3,625,679.

Here's the search strategy:

not ("united states" Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada "New Hampshire" "New Jersey" "New Mexico" "New York" "North Carolina" "North Dakota" Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania "Rhode Island" "South Carolina" "South Dakota" Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington "West Virginia" Wisconsin Wyoming "american samoa" "federated states of micronesia" guam "northern mariana islands" "midway islands" "puerto rico" "u.s. virgin islands" "us virgin islands")[ow]

Okay, taking that search, I wanted to see what filing basis foreign owners use. So, here's the results:

1A (Filed under Section §1(a) {use in commerce}) - 153,409
1B (Filed under Section §1(b) {intent to use}) - 292,961
44D (Filed under Section §44(d) {foreign application}) - 139,686
44E (Filed under Section §44(e) {foreign registration}) - 96,358
66A (Filed under Section §66(a)) - 35,377
NO FILING BASIS (No filing basis claimed) - 555

So as with my filing habits post, the majority of foreign owners file under an intent to use basis, rather than based on a foreign trademark application or registration. But the numbers may be incomplete, becuase when you add up the above basis numbers you get 718,346. What happened to the other 2,907,333 records? What basis were they filed under? Most likely, the PTO did not record original filing basis from way back. If anyone knows the reason, please leave a comment in the comment section.

Here's the complete search strategies for the above results:

153,409
1a[ob] not ("united states" Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada "New Hampshire" "New Jersey" "New Mexico" "New York" "North Carolina" "North Dakota" Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania "Rhode Island" "South Carolina" "South Dakota" Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington "West Virginia" Wisconsin Wyoming "american samoa" "federated states of micronesia" guam "northern mariana islands" "midway islands" "puerto rico" "u.s. virgin islands" "us virgin islands")[ow]


292,961
1b[ob] not ("united states" Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada "New Hampshire" "New Jersey" "New Mexico" "New York" "North Carolina" "North Dakota" Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania "Rhode Island" "South Carolina" "South Dakota" Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington "West Virginia" Wisconsin Wyoming "american samoa" "federated states of micronesia" guam "northern mariana islands" "midway islands" "puerto rico" "u.s. virgin islands" "us virgin islands")[ow]


139,686
44d[ob] not ("united states" Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada "New Hampshire" "New Jersey" "New Mexico" "New York" "North Carolina" "North Dakota" Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania "Rhode Island" "South Carolina" "South Dakota" Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington "West Virginia" Wisconsin Wyoming "american samoa" "federated states of micronesia" guam "northern mariana islands" "midway islands" "puerto rico" "u.s. virgin islands" "us virgin islands")[ow]


96,358
44e[ob] not ("united states" Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada "New Hampshire" "New Jersey" "New Mexico" "New York" "North Carolina" "North Dakota" Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania "Rhode Island" "South Carolina" "South Dakota" Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington "West Virginia" Wisconsin Wyoming "american samoa" "federated states of micronesia" guam "northern mariana islands" "midway islands" "puerto rico" "u.s. virgin islands" "us virgin islands")[ow]


35,377
66a[ob] not ("united states" Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada "New Hampshire" "New Jersey" "New Mexico" "New York" "North Carolina" "North Dakota" Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania "Rhode Island" "South Carolina" "South Dakota" Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington "West Virginia" Wisconsin Wyoming "american samoa" "federated states of micronesia" guam "northern mariana islands" "midway islands" "puerto rico" "u.s. virgin islands" "us virgin islands")[ow]


555
("no filing basis")[ob] not ("united states" Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada "New Hampshire" "New Jersey" "New Mexico" "New York" "North Carolina" "North Dakota" Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania "Rhode Island" "South Carolina" "South Dakota" Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington "West Virginia" Wisconsin Wyoming "american samoa" "federated states of micronesia" guam "northern mariana islands" "midway islands" "puerto rico" "u.s. virgin islands" "us virgin islands")[ow]


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