[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 37, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
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[CITE: 37CFR2.63]

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              TITLE 37--PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                                COMMERCE
 
PART 2--RULES OF PRACTICE IN TRADEMARK CASES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 2.63  Reexamination.

    (a) After response by the applicant, the application will be 
reexamined or reconsidered. If registration is again refused or any 
formal requirement[s] is repeated, but the examiner's action is not 
stated to be final, the applicant may respond again.
    (b) After reexamination the applicant may respond by filing a timely 
petition to the Director for relief from a formal requirement if: (1) 
The requirement is repeated, but the examiner's action is not made 
final, and the subject matter of the requirement is appropriate for 
petition to the Director (see Sec. 2.146(b)); or (2) the examiner's 
action is made final and such action is limited to subject matter 
appropriate for petition to the Director. If the petition is denied, the 
applicant shall have until six months from the date of the Office action 
which repeated the requirement or made it final or thirty days from the 
date of the decision on the petition, whichever date is later, to comply 
with the requirement. A formal requirement which is the subject of a 
petition decided by the Director may not subsequently be the subject of 
an appeal to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

[48 FR 23134, May 23, 1983]