# Miscellaneous Changes to Trademark Rules of Practice
> **US Patent and Trademark Office** · Final rule. · Published 2008-11-17 · Effective 2009-01-16 · 73 FR 67759
## Document
- **Document number:** E8-27222
- **Category:** uspto-patent
- **Sub-agency:** US Patent and Trademark Office
- **Federal Register citation:** 73 FR 67759
- **CFR reference:** 37 CFR 2
- **Publication date:** 2008-11-17
- **Effective date:** 2009-01-16
- **Commerce docket:** Docket No. PTO-T-2005-0018
## Abstract

The United States Patent and Trademark Office ("Office") is amending the Trademark Rules of Practice to clarify certain requirements for applications, intent to use documents, amendments to classification, requests to divide, and Post Registration practice; to modernize the language of the rules; and to make other miscellaneous changes. For the most part, the rule changes are intended to codify existing practice, as set forth in the Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure ("TMEP").

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/11/17/E8-27222/miscellaneous-changes-to-trademark-rules-of-practice)
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