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TRADEMARK MANUAL OF EXAMINING Procedure (TMEP)

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

July 2021

Foreword

The Trademark Manual of Examining Process (TMEP) may exist downloaded gratis of charge from the United States Patent and Trademark Role (USPTO) website at http://world wide web.uspto.gov/trademark/guides-and-manuals/tmep-archives.

The Transmission is published to provide trademark examining attorneys in the USPTO, trademark applicants, and attorneys and representatives for trademark applicants with a reference work on the practices and procedures relative to prosecution of applications to register marks in the USPTO. The Transmission contains guidelines for Examining Attorneys and materials in the nature of information and estimation, and outlines the procedures which Examining Attorneys are required or authorized to follow in the test of trademark applications.

Trademark Examining Attorneys will be governed by the applicable statutes, the Trademark Rules of Practice, decisions, and Orders and Notices issued by the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Holding and Manager of the United States Patent and Trademark Part, Commissioners, or Deputy Commissioners. The guidelines set along in this Manual do not accept the strength and effect of law. They accept been adult every bit a affair of internal office management and are non intended to create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable past any political party against the function. Policies stated in this revision supersede any previous policies stated in prior editions, exam guides, or any other statement of Office policy, to the extent that there is any conflict.

Suggestions for improving the grade and content of the Transmission are ever welcome. They should be east-mailed to tmtmep@uspto.gov, or addressed to:

Commissioner for Trademarks

Attention: Editor, Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure

P.O. Box 1451

Alexandria

Virginia

22313-1451

Catherine P. Cain

Editor

David S. Gooder

Commissioner for Trademarks