---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 C.F.R. § 280.300"
title: "15"
number: "280.300"
heading: "Recorded insignia required prior to offer for sale."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/15/280.300"
---

# §280.300. Recorded insignia required prior to offer for sale.


Unless the specifications provide otherwise, if a fastener is required by the applicable consensus standard(s) to bear an insignia identifying its manufacturer, the manufacturer must:

- (a) Record the insignia with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office prior to any sale or offer for sale of the fastener; and
- (b) **Apply the insignia to any fastener that is sold or offered for sale.** The insignia must be readable, and must be applied using the method for applying a permanent insignia that is provided for in the applicable consensus standard(s), or, if the applicable consensus standard(s) do(es) not specify a method for applying a permanent insignia, through any means of imprinting a permanent impression.

## Notes

### Amendments

[65 FR 39803, June 28, 2000]

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 5401 et seq.; Pub. L. 101-592, 104 Stat. 2943, as amended by Pub. L. 104-113, 110 Stat. 775; Pub. L. 105-234, 112 Stat. 1536; and Pub. L. 106-34, 113 Stat. 118.

### Source

Source: 61 FR 50558, Sept. 26, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[65 FR 39803, June 28, 2000]