Apostille Trademarks and Patents

How To Apostille
Trademarks and Patents

We only need three things from you to complete the expedited U.S trademark apostille services or U.S patent apostille services process.

First, mail us or drop off your original U.S federal trademark or U.S federal patent documents at our office. The U.S trademark and U.S patent documents that you submit to us cannot be a photocopy or a notarized copy and you cannot fax or email us a copy of your US trademark and US patent documents to apostille or authenticate.

The United States Department of State will only accept and issue federal apostille certificates and authentication certificates on original USA trademark and USA patents documents that are physically presented to them not photocopies. 

Second mail or drop off at our office a prepaid FedEx or UPS return shipping label (we do not accept air waybills) that you can create and purchase online at FedEx.com or UPS.com from anywhere in the world without needing to have an existing account set up with them. You can also visit any UPS Store or FedEx Office location to purchase a prepaid shipping label as well.  

DO NOT use the United States Postal Service (USPS) because they lose things constantly
(potentially your US trademark and US patent documents) and are completely unreliable and slow.

The reason we require a prepaid return shipping label is so we can mail your USA trademark and USA patent apostille back to you or to wherever and whomever in the world that you want it shipped to.

On the prepaid return FedEx or UPS shipping label that you must provide us please list the senders (from) mailing address as your name/address or any U.S address because you cannot list our company name or address as the from/sender for liability reasons. Then for the receiver’s address (to) just list the name/address of where and who you want your U.S trademark apostille or U.S patent apostille mailed back to. 

It was taking from 3-4 weeks (fastest) to 13-14 weeks (slowest) time between 2020-2024 for the U.S State Department to process and issue federal apostilles and federal authentication certificates on documents once they were submitted to their office in Washington, DC in the post-COVID world. 

The United States Department of State announced that beginning October 1^st, 2024 they will finally (thank the apostille gods) reopen their doors for rush walk-in services after being closed to the public for over 4 1/2 years!

The new U.S Department of State three rules and turnaround times start October 1st, 2024 will be as follows:

1. Any person, apostille services company or apostille agent will only be able to submit 15 documents per day.
2. The USDOS working days are now reduced to being open Monday through Thursday excluding all federal holidays.
3. Apostilled or authenticated issued documents can be picked up 7-9 business days after they have been hand-submitted in person to the U.S Department of State office.

The U.S Department of State does not give us or anyone updates of any kind so we cannot give you any type of order status updates once you place your order with us (welcome to the completely broken federal government system since COVID).

Only on the day the State Department finally issues a federal apostille certificate or federal authentication certificate on your U.S trademarks or U.S patents will they notify us.

Click on the below links for easy step-by-step screenshot directions on how to create a prepaid return FedEx or UPS shipping label online in only a few minutes.

https://www.apostilletexas.org/faqs/shipping/how-and-where-do-i-create-and-purchase-a-prepaid-fedex-return-shipping-label/

https://www.apostilletexas.org/faqs/shipping/how-and-where-do-i-create-and-purchase-a-prepaid-ups-return-shipping-label/

If you want your USA trademark apostille or USA patent apostille shipped back to you or to someone else internationally (USA to another foreign country) please also provide us with a customs invoice (also called a commercial invoice). See the two links below to download and sign the custom prefilled out for you templates that shipping companies (FedEx, UPS) will normally require you to include whenever you ship documents internationally to certain countries.

https://www.apostilletexas.org/faqs/shipping/where-do-i-download-a-fedex-shipping-invoice-template-to-use-for-international-shipping/ 

https://www.apostilletexas.org/faqs/shipping/where-do-i-download-a-ups-shipping-invoice-template-to-use-for-international-shipping/ 

Third, you will need to download, sign, and mail or drop off at our office our rush United States Department of State (USDOS) federal apostille service order form that can be instantly downloaded by clicking on the blue federal apostille services order button below.

We cannot accept or process your U.S trademarks and U.S patents apostille request by mail or drop off until we receive a properly completed federal apostille order form from you.

If you will be dropping your USA trademark and patent documents off at our office in person you must bring this completed federal apostille order form in with you along with any other documents that you want us to rush apostille or authenticate for you or for your company.

When you arrive at our office walk up to our front lobby receptionist desk area and tell them that you have a US trademark or US patent document to dropoff for Apostille Texas. Detailed directions and pictures of our office and office building are on our contact us page as well for you to view.

Please also understand your U.S trademark and U.S patent documents will not and cannot be apostilled or authenticated onsite at our office so this isn’t walk-in service.

The only legal and government entity in the U.S.A that can issue federal apostille and federal authentication certificates is the U.S Department of State office in Washington D.C which is where we will rush file your federal trademarks and federal patent paperwork at on your behalf.

Lastly, we do not have these federal apostille services order forms available at our front desk receptionist area.

So if you choose to drop off your USA trademark and USA patent documents at our office please make sure to print out and bring this U.S. Department of State apostille services order form in with you or alternatively you can email us the completed State Department apostille service order form ahead of time.