U.S. Trademark Applications: Class 9, Software and electronics (Monthly)

## What this measures

The number of new trademark applications in each month that name Nice class 9: downloadable software, computers, phones, electronics and scientific instruments.

## Why it matters

Brands are filed before products launch, so filings in one class are an early read on new products in that market.

## How to read it

Higher means more new brands planned for software and electronics. An application naming several classes counts once in each. The series starts in January 2000 at 3,961. The latest month, September 2026, is 7,632. The high is 10,369 (December 2020) and the low 2,443 (January 2003).

## What it does not say

An application is not a launch: many marks are abandoned, refused or never used, and one company can file many marks for one product. Counts move with USPTO fees and rules (the USPTO raised fees and changed how goods are described in January 2025) as well as with demand.

## How it's built

One count per application (serial number), by filing date. History from January 2000 comes from the annual backfile; from January 2025 Palanor keeps one row per application, first seen in the backfile or a daily file, and recomputes the last 24 months on every run. A month is published a week after it ends: new applications reach the daily file the day they are entered. Classes are the international classes on the application as last recorded.

## 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 by /api/cron/uspto-trademarks-sync.