# Trademark Technical and Conforming Amendments
> **US Patent and Trademark Office** · Interim final rule with request for comments. · Published 2010-06-24 · Effective 2010-06-24 · 75 FR 35973
## Document
- **Document number:** 2010-15305
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Patent and Trademark Office
- **Federal Register citation:** 75 FR 35973
- **CFR reference:** 37 CFR 2
- **Publication date:** 2010-06-24
- **Effective date:** 2010-06-24
- **Commerce docket:** Docket No. PTO-T-2010-0014
## Abstract

The United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") is amending the Rules of Practice in Trademark Cases to implement the Trademark Technical and Conforming Amendment Act of 2010. The rule changes harmonize the framework for submitting trademark registration maintenance filings to the USPTO by permitting holders of international registrations with an extension of protection to the United States under the Madrid Protocol ("Madrid Protocol registrants") to file Affidavits or Declarations of Use or Excusable Nonuse at intervals identical to those for nationally issued registrations. The changes additionally allow all trademark owners to cure deficiencies in their maintenance filings, including when the affidavit or declaration is not filed in the name of the owner of the registration.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2010/06/24/2010-15305/trademark-technical-and-conforming-amendments)
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