Retract Office Vote
Offices
Retract Office Vote
Retract your organization’s vote for an office
DELETE
Retract Office Vote
Overview
Removes your organization’s vote for one office.DELETE accepts a wider vocabulary than casting: any ST.3 / ISO 3166-1 two-letter code (plus BX, AP, OA, aliases canonicalized) resolves here. Only an unrecognizable token returns 400. Codes that casting rejects — an office Signa already covers, or a territory with no trademark register of its own (AQ, BV, …) — still resolve and still delete, so a row stored under an earlier vocabulary is never stranded; when you have no vote for the code, you get 404, not 400.
A territory resolves to the office that registers its marks, so retracting PR targets the USPTO vote and RE the INPI-FR one — and because the code is canonicalized first, the 404 detail names the parent office (US, FR), not the territory you sent.
Retracting is free — DELETE bills 0 units, as does casting; only List Office Votes bills (1 read unit). Responses carry the standard RateLimit-* headers.
Requires an Idempotency-Key header: retrying with the same key replays the cached response of that attempt (so a replayed retract still reads deleted: true, not 404), while a new logical attempt — retracting again after re-casting the vote — needs a fresh key. The vote itself is stored once per organization per office, so the server’s state is the same either way.
Path Parameters
string
required
Office code — ST.3 / ISO, any case or accepted alias (
UK retracts the GB vote).Response
string
Always
office_vote.string
Canonical uppercase ST.3 code of the retracted vote.
boolean
Always
true.404 not_found when your organization has no vote for the office ("Your organization has no vote for BR."), and 400 validation_error for unknown codes.
Code Examples
Errors
The
404 detail reads "Your organization has no vote for BR." — the code is canonicalized first, so retracting uk when you have no GB vote reports GB, and retracting PR reports US.
Related Endpoints
- Cast Office Votes, vote for the offices you want next
- List Office Votes, read your organization’s votes back
- List Offices, the offices already covered by Signa