[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 37, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 37CFR2.68]

[Page 255]
 
              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. 2.68  Express abandonment (withdrawal) of application.

    An application may be expressly abandoned by filing in the Patent 
and Trademark Office a written statement of abandonment or withdrawal of 
the application signed by the applicant, or the attorney or other person 
representing the applicant. Except as provided in Sec. 2.135, the fact 
that an application has been expressly abandoned shall not, in any 
proceeding in the Patent and Trademark Office, affect any rights that 
the applicant may have in the mark which is the subject of the abandoned 
application.

[54 FR 34897, Aug. 22, 1989]