T.M.E.P. § 110
Decisions Available to the Public

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110 Decisions Available to the Public

37 C.F.R. 2.27(c). Decisions of the Director and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in applications and proceedings relating thereto are published or available for inspection or publication.

Precedential decisions of the Director and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board are noted as such and published in the United States Patents Quarterly (cited as USPQ or USPQ2d), which is a periodical reporting service of a non-governmental publishing company. The USPTO does not print these decisions in its own publications. Non-precedential decisions of the Director and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board are not published.

A weekly summary of final decisions issued by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board appears on the USPTO's website at www.uspto.gov and in each issue of the TMOG.

See TMEP §1803 regarding decisions that are available under the Freedom of Information Act.