Your mark has been published for opposition
Official wording: Published for opposition
The USPTO has published your mark in the Official Gazette. For thirty days, anyone who believes it would harm their own rights can formally oppose it.
This is good news with a waiting period
Publication means the examining attorney found no reason to refuse your mark. Most applications that reach this point are never opposed and go on to registration or to a notice of allowance.
The thirty-day window
The opposition period runs thirty days from the publication date. Third parties can also request extensions of that period, which is why the file can sit here longer than a month without anything being wrong.
What happens if someone opposes
An opposition starts a proceeding at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. It is litigation, not paperwork — with pleadings, evidence and deadlines — and it is a matter for a licensed attorney rather than a filing service.
This is the moment monitoring starts paying
Publication is also when competitors can see your mark. Watching for confusingly similar filings after publication is how owners catch imitators early rather than discovering them in a marketplace listing two years later.
Confirm this against your own record
Status code descriptions are administered inside USPTO systems and published wording varies slightly between sources. Your file is the authority. Enter your serial number in TSDR to see your current status, every document filed, and any live deadline.
Open TSDRLooking this up for a client rather than for your own mark? We keep a network of licensed attorneys who review the cases that come through us. It is case-by-case paid work and a free listing — never a referral fee or a cut of anything.
What comes before and after
Status 630
Filed, and waiting in the queue
Status 638
An examining attorney now has your file
Status 640
An office action has been counted, but not sent yet
Status 641
Your non-final office action has been mailed
Status 602
Your application was abandoned for failure to respond
Status 680
The examiner cleared your mark
Status 700
Your mark is registered