# Changes to the Trademark Rules of Practice To Mandate Electronic Filing
> **US Patent and Trademark Office** · Final rule, delay of effective date. · Published 2019-10-02 · Effective 2019-07-31 · 84 FR 52363
## Document
- **Document number:** 2019-21178
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Patent and Trademark Office
- **Federal Register citation:** 84 FR 52363
- **CFR reference:** 37 CFR 2
- **Publication date:** 2019-10-02
- **Effective date:** 2019-07-31
- **Commerce docket:** Docket No. PTO-T-2017-0004
## Abstract

On July 31, 2019, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published in the Federal Register a final rule amending the Rules of Practice in Trademark Cases and the Rules of Practice in Filings Pursuant to the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks. That final rule had an effective date of October 5, 2019. This action changes the effective date to December 21, 2019.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/10/02/2019-21178/changes-to-the-trademark-rules-of-practice-to-mandate-electronic-filing)
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