# Changes in the Requirement for a Description of the Mark in Trademark Applications
> **US Patent and Trademark Office** · Final rule. · Published 2008-03-14 · Effective 2008-05-13 · 73 FR 13780
## Document
- **Document number:** E8-5202
- **Category:** uspto-patent
- **Sub-agency:** US Patent and Trademark Office
- **Federal Register citation:** 73 FR 13780
- **CFR reference:** 37 CFR 2
- **Publication date:** 2008-03-14
- **Effective date:** 2008-05-13
- **Commerce docket:** Docket No. PTO-T-2007-0035
## Abstract

The United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") amends the Rules of Practice in Trademark Cases to require a description of the mark in all applications to register a mark not in standard characters. This requirement will facilitate more accurate and comprehensive design coding and pseudo-mark data determinations, and therefore will promote better searchability of marks within the USPTO trademark database. The USPTO will maintain its practice of printing the description of a mark on the certificate of registration only when the USPTO deems the description necessary to clarify what is claimed in the mark.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/03/14/E8-5202/changes-in-the-requirement-for-a-description-of-the-mark-in-trademark-applications)
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