[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 37, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 37CFR2.181]

[Page 320]
 
              TITLE 37--PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS
 
                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 2--RULES OF PRACTICE IN TRADEMARK CASES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 2.181  Term of original registrations and renewals.

    (a)(1) Subject to the provisions of section 8 of the Act requiring 
an affidavit or declaration of continued use or excusable nonuse, 
registrations issued or renewed prior to November 16, 1989, whether on 
the Principal Register or on the Supplemental Register, remain in force 
for twenty years from their date of issue or the date of renewal, and 
may be further renewed for periods of ten years, unless previously 
cancelled or surrendered.
    (2) Subject to the provisions of section 8 of the Act requiring an 
affidavit or declaration of continued use or excusable nonuse, 
registrations issued or renewed on or after November 16, 1989, whether 
on the Principal Register or on the Supplemental Register, remain in 
force for ten years from their date of issue or the date of renewal, and 
may be further renewed for periods of ten years, unless previously 
cancelled or surrendered.
    (b) Registrations issued under the Acts of 1905 and 1881 remain in 
force for their unexpired terms and may be renewed in the same manner as 
registrations under the Act of 1946.
    (c) Registrations issued under the Act of 1920 cannot be renewed 
unless renewal is required to support foreign registrations and in such 
case may be renewed on the Supplemental Register in the same manner as 
registrations under the Act of 1946.

[30 FR 13193, Oct. 16, 1965, as amended at 54 FR 37597, Sept. 11, 1989; 
64 FR 48926, Sept. 8, 1999]