[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: 37CFR2.74]

[Page 280]
 
              TITLE 37--PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS
 
                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 2--RULES OF PRACTICE IN TRADEMARK CASES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 2.74  Form of amendment.

    (a) In every amendment the exact word or words to be stricken out or 
inserted in the application must be specified and the precise point 
indicated where the deletion or insertion is to be made. Erasures, 
additions, insertions, or mutilations of the papers and records must not 
be made by the applicant or his attorney or agent.
    (b) When an amendatory clause is amended, it must be wholly 
rewritten so that no interlineation or erasure will appear in the 
clause, as finally amended, when the application is passed to 
registration. If the number or nature of the amendments shall render it 
otherwise difficult to consider the case or to arrange the papers for 
printing or copying, or when otherwise desired to clarify the record, 
the examiner may require the entire statement to be rewritten.