	      PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION





In the 37 years since the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
(TTAB) was established by Congress, the body of trademark
law has grown substantially.  So, too, has the complexity of
administrative practice before the TTAB.

The TTAB's practice and procedure are governed by the Lanham
Act and other statutory provisions, the Trademark Rules of
Practice, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Federal
Rules of Evidence, and reported cases.  But there are
elements of TTAB practice and procedure that are not easily
extracted from those several sources, particularly by
practitioners who represent parties before the TTAB only
occasionally.  And there are certain elements of TTAB
practice and procedure that are not to be found in those
statutes, rules, and cases.

With the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of
Procedure (TBMP), we aim to provide, in one publication, a
comprehensive statement of our administrative procedures.
We intend this manual to be a dynamic document that will be
changed and supplemented, on a regular basis, as TTAB
practice changes.

Although many people were involved in the numerous
discussions that attended the writing of this volume, the
TBMP is essentially the work of one person:  TTAB
Administrative Trademark Judge Janet E. Rice.  Without her
encyclopedic knowledge of TTAB practice and her
indefatigable effort as reporter, publication of the manual,
in its present form, would not have happened.



                         J. David Sams
                         Chief Administrative Trademark Judge
                         Trademark Trial and Appeal Board

                         September 1, 1995

