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Code of Federal Regulations (Last Updated: November 8, 2024) |
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Title 37 - Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights |
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Chapter I - United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce |
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SubChapter A - General |
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Part 11 - Representation of Others Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office |
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Subpart D - USPTO Rules of Professional Conduct |
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Law Firms and Associations |
§ 11.507 - Responsibilities regarding law-related services.
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§ 11.507 Responsibilities regarding law-related services.
A practitioner shall be subject to the USPTO Rules of Professional Conduct with respect to the provision of law-related services if the law-related services are provided:
(a) By the practitioner in circumstances that are not distinct from the practitioner's provision of legal services to clients; or
(b) In other circumstances by an entity controlled by the practitioner individually or with others if the practitioner fails to take reasonable measures to assure that a person obtaining the law-related services knows that the services are not legal services and that the protections of the client-practitioner relationship do not exist.