Your declaration of continued use was accepted and the registration stays alive
Official wording: SECTION 8-ACCEPTED
The USPTO has accepted your Section 8 declaration of continued use. Your registration remains in force. This is good news, and it comes with the next deadline attached.
What you just cleared
A Section 8 declaration proves you are still using the mark in commerce. For a registration under the 1946 Act it is due on or after the fifth anniversary of registration and no later than the sixth, with a six-month grace period afterwards that carries a surcharge. You filed it and it was accepted, so nothing is outstanding today.
The next window is the nine-to-ten-year one
A combined Section 8 and Section 9 filing is due in the year before the tenth anniversary of registration, and then in the year before the end of every ten-year period after that. A six-month grace period follows each deadline, with a surcharge. Miss both windows and the registration is cancelled or expires - not suspended.
Section 15 is the one most owners skip
If you have five consecutive years of continuous use after registration, you can file a Section 15 declaration to make the registration incontestable, which sharply limits the grounds on which somebody can later challenge it. It is optional, it is not expensive relative to what it protects, and the five-year mark has usually just passed by the time you are reading this code.
Nobody reminds you
The USPTO does not send maintenance reminders you can rely on, and correspondence goes to the email of record, which for a ten-year-old registration is frequently an address nobody checks. A registration lost to a missed Section 8 is the most avoidable loss in trademark practice.
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.
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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