[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 37, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 1999]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 37CFR1.34]

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             TITLE 37--PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS
 
    CHAPTER I--PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 1--RULES OF PRACTICE IN PATENT CASES--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart B--National Processing Provisions
 
Sec. 1.34  Recognition for representation.

    (a) When a registered attorney or agent acting in a representative 
capacity appears in person or signs a paper in practice before the 
Patent and Trademark Office in a patent case, his or her personal 
appearance or signature shall constitute a representation to the Patent 
and Trademark Office that under the provisions of this subchapter and 
the law, he or she is authorized to represent the particular party in 
whose behalf he or she acts. In filing such a paper, the registered 
attorney or agent should specify his or her registration number with his 
or her signature. Further proof of authority to act in a representative 
capacity may be required.
    (b) When an attorney or agent shall have filed his or her power of 
attorney, or authorization, duly executed by the person or persons 
entitled to prosecute an application or a patent involved in a 
reexamination proceeding, he or she is a principal attorney of record in 
the case. A principal attorney or agent, so appointed, may appoint an 
associate

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attorney or agent who shall also then be of record.

[46 FR 29181, May 29, 1981, as amended at 50 FR 5171, Feb. 6, 1985]