---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 C.F.R. § 280.324"
title: "15"
number: "280.324"
heading: "Change in status of trademark registration or amendment of the trademark."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/15/280.324"
---

# §280.324. Change in status of trademark registration or amendment of the trademark.

- (a) The Director, USPTO, shall designate the certificate of recordal as inactive, upon:
  - (1) Issuance of a final decision on appeal which refuses registration of the application which formed the basis for the certificate of recordal;
  - (2) Abandonment of the application which formed the basis for the certificate of recordal;
  - (3) Cancellation or expiration of the trademark registration which formed the basis of the certificate of recordal; or
  - (4) An amendment of the mark in a trademark application or registration that forms the basis for a certificate of recordal. The certificate of recordal shall become inactive as of the date the amendment is filed. A new application for recordal of the amended trademark application or registration may be submitted to the Commissioner at any time.
- (b) Certificates of recordal designated inactive due to cancellation, expiration, or amendment of the trademark registration, or abandonment or amendment of the trademark application, cannot be reactivated.

## Notes

### Amendments

[61 FR 50558, Sept. 26, 1996. Redesignated and amended at 65 FR 39803, 39804, 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

[61 FR 50558, Sept. 26, 1996. Redesignated and amended at 65 FR 39803, 39804, June 28, 2000]