[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR280.324]

[Page 399]
 
                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
 CHAPTER II--NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY, DEPARTMENT 
                               OF COMMERCE
 
PART 280--FASTENER QUALITY--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart D--Recordal of Insignia
 
Sec. 280.324  Change in status of trademark registration or amendment of the trademark.

    (a) The Director, USPTO, shall designate the certificate of recordal 
as inactive, upon:
    (1) Issuance of a final decision on appeal which refuses 
registration of the application which formed the basis for the 
certificate of recordal;
    (2) Abandonment of the application which formed the basis for the 
certificate of recordal;
    (3) Cancellation or expiration of the trademark registration which 
formed the basis of the certificate of recordal; or
    (4) An amendment of the mark in a trademark application or 
registration that forms the basis for a certificate of recordal. The 
certificate of recordal shall become inactive as of the date the 
amendment is filed. A new application for recordal of the amended 
trademark application or registration may be submitted to the 
Commissioner at any time.
    (b) Certificates of recordal designated inactive due to 
cancellation, expiration, or amendment of the trademark registration, or 
abandonment or amendment of the trademark application, cannot be 
reactivated.

[61 FR 50558, Sept. 26, 1996. Redesignated and amended at 65 FR 39803, 
39804, June 28, 2000]