# Miscellaneous Changes to Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Rules of Practice; Correction
> **US Patent and Trademark Office** · Final rule; correction. · Published 2016-12-12 · Effective 2017-01-14 · 81 FR 89382
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-29728
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Patent and Trademark Office
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 89382
- **CFR reference:** 37 CFR 2
- **Publication date:** 2016-12-12
- **Effective date:** 2017-01-14
- **Commerce docket:** Docket No. PTO-T-2016-0053
## Abstract

The United States Patent and Trademark Office published in the Federal Register on October 7, 2016 a final rule, which will become effective on January 14, 2017, revising the Rules of Practice before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. This document corrects errors in certain cross-references, clarifies the manner of testimony taken in a foreign country and the process in depositions upon written questions, and reincorporates the time frames for cross appeals and cross actions in that rule.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/12/2016-29728/miscellaneous-changes-to-trademark-trial-and-appeal-board-rules-of-practice-correction)
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