Line
Trademark Filings for Software and Technology Services
New U.S. trademark applications naming class 9 (software, electronics) and class 42 (technology services)
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Software and electronics (9) · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days
Technology services (42) · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days
Dashed: the projection from the latest reading. Shaded: the range about two in three outcomes land in. A projection, not a promise.
U.S. trademark applications by the month they were filed, one count per application, from the USPTO's trademark files. Source: United States Patent and Trademark Office. Quarterly averages of the monthly counts.
The tech side of the trademark register. Class 9 covers downloadable software and devices, class 42 software as a service and IT services; together they show how much new technology is being branded.
What this chart reads
- U.S. Trademark Applications: Class 9, Software and electronics (Monthly)as “Software and electronics (9)”latest 2026-09-01
- U.S. Trademark Applications: Class 42, Technology services (Monthly)as “Technology services (42)”latest 2026-09-01
Sources
U.S. Trademark Applications: Class 9, Software and electronics (Monthly). Source: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Full Text XML Data (No Images): the annual applications backfile (2025 edition, every application to April 3, 2026) and the daily applications files after it, from the USPTO Open Data Portal (data.uspto.gov). Public domain; Source: United States Patent and Trademark Office, www.uspto.gov. Refreshed daily.
U.S. Trademark Applications: Class 42, Technology services (Monthly). Source: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Full Text XML Data (No Images): the annual applications backfile (2025 edition, every application to April 3, 2026) and the daily applications files after it, from the USPTO Open Data Portal (data.uspto.gov). Public domain; Source: United States Patent and Trademark Office, www.uspto.gov. Refreshed daily.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.