[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: 37CFR1.42]

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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. 1.42  When the inventor is dead.

    In case of the death of the inventor, the legal representative 
(executor, administrator, etc.) of the deceased inventor may make the 
necessary oath or declaration, and apply for and obtain the patent. 
Where the inventor dies during the time intervening between the filing 
of the application and the granting of a patent thereon, the letters 
patent may be issued to the

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legal representative upon proper intervention.

(35 U.S.C. 6, Pub. L. 97-247)

[48 FR 2709, Jan. 20, 1983]