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U.S. Trademark Applications from China

Share of new U.S. trademark applications whose applicant's address is in China, %

22.5% in Sep 2026+22.0 pp since Sep 2006
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Current·Data to Sep 2026

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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. Country of the original applicant's address.

Chinese sellers, many of them selling on U.S. marketplaces, file a large share of U.S. trademark applications. The line tracks that share and how it moves with platform rules and USPTO policy.

What this chart reads

Sources

U.S. Trademark Applications from China (% of Filings). 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.

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