Index II RULES RELATING TO REPRESENTATION OF OTHERS BEFORE THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
A
Address change ______ 10.11, 11.11
Advertising ______ 10.31, 10.32
Agents, registration of ______ 11.6
Agreements restricting practice ______ 10.38
Applicant for patent, representation of ______ 1.31, 11.10
Attorneys, recognition of to practice in trademark cases ______ 11.14
Attorneys, registration of to practice in patent cases ______ 11.6, 11.7
C
Candidate for judicial office ______ 10.103
Canons and disciplinary rules ______ 10.20 - 10.112
Certificate of mailing ______ 1.8, 10.23
Certification effect of signature ______ 11.18
Circumventing a disciplinary rule, amendment ______ 10.23
Code of Professional Responsibility ______ 10.20 - 10.112
Coercion, Use of ______ 10.23
Committee on Discipline ______ 10.4
Communicating with person having adverse interest ______ 10.67
Communications concerning practitioner’s service ______ 10.31
Compensation for legal services ______ 10.68
Competence ______ 10.76, 10.77
Complaint instituting disciplinary proceedings ______ 11.34
Concealment of material information ______ 10.23
Conduct in proceeding before Office ______ 10.89
Conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice ______ 10.23
Conflict of interest ______ 10.66
Conviction of criminal offense ______ 10.23
D
Deceit ______ 10.23
Decisions of the USPTO Director ______ 11.56, 11.57
Definitions:
Affidavit ______ 10.1
Agent ______ 11.6
Application ______ 10.1
Attorney or lawyer ______ 11.1
Canon ______ 10.20
Confidence ______ 10.57
Differing interests ______ 10.1
Director of Enrollment and Discipline ______ 10.1
Disciplinary rule ______ 10.20
Disqualified ______ 11.1
Excessive legal fees ______ 10.36
Excluded practitioner ______ 10.1
Federal agency ______ 11.1
Federal program ______ 11.1
Giving information ______ 10.1
Invention development services ______ 10.23
Law firm ______ 10.1
Legal counsel ______ 10.1
Legal profession ______ 10.1
Legal service ______ 10.1
Legal system ______ 10.1
Mandatory Disciplinary Rule ______ 11.1
Non-practitioner ______ 10.1
Office ______ 10.1
Person ______ 10.1
Practitioner ______ 10.1
Proceeding before the Office ______ 10.1
Professional legal corporation ______ 10.1
Registration ______ 10.1
Respondent ______ 11.34
Serious crime ______ 11.1
Suspended practitioner ______ 10.1
Tribunal ______ 10.1
United States ______ 10.1
Designation as registered attorney or agent ______ 10.34
Direct contact with prospective clients ______ 10.33
Director of Enrollment and Discipline:
Discharge of attorney or agent by client ______ 10.40
Disciplinary proceedings and investigations:
Amendment of pleadings ______ 11.45
Answer to complaint ______ 11.36
Appeal to the USPTO Director ______ 11.55
Burden of proof ______ 11.49
Certificate of mailing ______ 1.8
Committee on Discipline ______ 11.23
Complaint ______ 11.34
Contested case ______ 11.38
Deliberations of Committee on Discipline ______ 10.4
Discovery in Disciplinary Proceedings ______ 11.52
Duties of disciplined or resigned practitioner ______ 11.58
Exclusion on consent ______ 11.27
Filing papers after complaint filed ______ 11.41
Hearing officer ______ 11.39
Hearings ______ 11.44
Incapacitated practitioners ______ 11.28
Initial decision of hearing officer ______ 11.54
Instituting disciplinary proceeding ______ 11.32
Investigations of violations of disciplinary rules ______ 11.22
Post hearing memorandum ______ 11.53
Reciprocal discipline ______ 11.24
Reciprocal transfer ______ 11.29
Reinstatement of suspended or excluded practitioner ______ 11.60
Representative for OED Director/respondent ______ 11.40
Review of decision denying reinstatement of practitioner ______ 11.2
Review of interlocutory orders by hearing officer ______ 11.39
Savings clause ______ 11.61
Service of complaint ______ 11.35
Service of papers ______ 11.42
Settlement of complaint ______ 11.26
Warnings ______ 11.21
Disciplinary rule violation
Discourteous conduct ______ 10.89
Discovery in disciplinary proceedings:
Deliberations of committee on discipline ______ 10.4
Depositions ______ 11.51
Discovery ______ 11.52
Evidence ______ 11.50
Motions filed with hearing officer ______ 11.43
Division of legal fees ______ 10.37
Duress, use of ______ 10.23
Duty to make counsel available ______ 10.30
E
F
Failure to disclose material fact with regard to registration ______ 10.22
Failure to notify client ______ 10.23
False accusations ______ 10.23
False statements concerning officials ______ 10.102
Favors, improperly bestowing ______ 10.23
Fees:
Annual practitioner maintenance fee:
Individual granted limited recognition ______ 1.21 (a)(8)
Delinquency ______ 1.21(a)(9)(i)
Petition to review decision of Director of Enrollment and Discipline ______ 1.21(a)(5)
Registration for admission to examination ______ 1.21(a)(1)
Registration to practice ______ 1.21(a)(2)
Reinstatement ______ 1.21(a)(9)(ii)
Firm name, use of ______ 10.35
Fitness to practice before the Office ______ 10.23
Foreigners ______ 11.6, 11.9, 11.14
Former Patent and Trademark Office employees ______ 10.23, 11.7, 11.10
Fraud or inequitable conduct ______ 10.23, 10.85
Frivolous complaint ______ 10.23
Funds of client, preserving identity of ______ 10.112
G
I
Illegal conduct involving moral turpitude ______ 10.23
Illegal fees for services ______ 10.36
Improper alteration of patent application ______ 10.23
Improper execution of oath or declaration ______ 10.23
Improper influence ______ 10.23
Improper signature ______ 10.23
Improperly bestowing thing of value ______ 10.23
Incompetence ______ 10.77, 10.78
Indecent statement, making of. ______ 10.23
Independent professional judgment, exercise of ______ 10.61, 10.62, 10.66, 10.68
Individual unqualified in respect to character, education, etc. ______ 10.22, 11.7
Influence by others than client ______ 10.68
Information precluding registration, failure to disclose ______ 10.22
Integrity and competence of the legal profession, maintaining of ______ 10.22
Interest in litigation or proceeding before Office, acquiring of ______ 10.64
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P
Petitions:
Reinstatement ______ 11.60
Review of final decision of USPTO Director ______ 11.57
Review decision of Director of Enrollment and Discipline ______ 11.2
Suspension of rules ______ 10.170
Preserve secrets and confidence of client ______ 10.56, 10.57
Professional impropriety, avoiding appearance of ______ 10.110, 10.111
Promise of advantage, offer of ______ 10.23
Property of client ______ 10.112
Proprietary interest in subject matter ______ 10.64
Publication in Official Gazette ______ 10.11
R
Recognition to practice before the Patent and Trademark Office:
Agents ______ 11.5 11.6 11.7, 11.14
Aliens ______ 11.6, 11.7, 11.14
Attorneys ______ 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.14
Change of address, requirement to notify Director ______ 10.11, 11.11
Examination for registration in patent cases ______ 11.7
Examination fees ______ 1.21, 11.7
Foreigners ______ 11.6, 11.9, 11.14
Former Patent and Trademark Office employees ______ 10.23, 11.7, 11.10
Government employees ______ 10.23, 11.10
Limited recognition in patent cases ______ 11.9
Non-lawyers, recognition in trademark cases ______ 11.14
Recognition for representation ______ 1.34, 11.14
Refusal to recognize practitioner ______ 11.15
Register of attorneys and agents in patent cases ______ 11.5
Registration fee ______ 1.21
Registration number ______ 1.34
Removal of attorneys and agents from the register ______ 10.11
Representation by registered attorney or agent in patent cases ______ 1.31
Requirements for registration ______ 11.7
Review of Director’s decision refusing registration ______ 11.2
Trademark cases ______ 11.14
Unauthorized representation by an agent ______ 10.31, 11.10
Records, property and funds of client, maintaining of ______ 10.112
Reinstatement after removal from the register ______ 10.11
Reinstatement of excluded or suspended practitioner ______ 11.60
Representing client within bounds of the law ______ 10.85
S
Scandalous statements, making of ______ 10.23
Secrets and confidence, preservation of clients ______ 10.56, 10.57
Settlement of claims of clients ______ 10.67
Sharing legal fees ______ 10.48
Signature and certificate of practitioner ______ 11.18
Solicitation ______ 10.32, 10.33
Statement concerning officials, making false ______ 10.102
Suspension of practitioner ______ 10.23
Based on conviction of a serious crime ______ 11.25
Rules ______ 11.3