(167)                Renewal of Trademark Registrations
                                   (Revised)

   This supersedes the notice that appeared in the Official Gazette on
May 2, 1989; (1102 TMOG 5): 
   The Trademark Law Revision Act of 1988 [Title 1 of Pub. L. 100-667,
102 Stat. 3935 (15 U.S.C. 1051)], which takes effect on November 16,
1989, amends 15 U.S.C. 1059(a) to reduce the renewal term of a
registration from twenty years to ten years from the end of the
expiring period of the registration.
   Any registration whose expiration date is prior to November 16, 1989,
shall be renewed, upon proper application, from the end of the
expiring period for:

 (a) twenty years if the renewal is granted prior to November 16, 1989, or
   (b) ten years if the renewal is granted on or after November 16, 1989, 
        regardless of the renewal application filing date.

   Any registration whose expiration date is on or after November 16,
1989, shall be renewed, upon proper application, for ten years from
the end of the expiring period, regardless of the renewal application
filing date.
   The present practice of notification of renewal will continue.
However, the updated renewal certificate issued by the PTO will be
modified to specifically indicate the length of the renewal period.
The notice of renewal appearing in the Trademark Official Gazette
will be modified to indicate the date of the acceptance of renewal.

August 16, 1989                                         JEFFREY M. SAMUELS
                                                    Assistant Commissioner
                                                           for Trademarks.

                                [1106 TMOG 25]