[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 37, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 37CFR10.2]

[Page 347]
 
              TITLE 37--PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS
 
                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 10--REPRESENTATION OF OTHERS BEFORE THE PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 10.2  Director of Enrollment and Discipline.

    (a) Appointment. The Commissioner shall appoint a Director of 
Enrollment and Discipline. In the event of the absence of the Director 
or a vacancy in the Office of the Director, the Commissioner may 
designate an employee of the Office to serve as acting Director of 
Enrollment and Discipline. The Director and any acting Director shall be 
an active member in good standing of the bar of a State.
    (b) Duties. The Director shall:
    (1) Receive and act upon applications for registration, prepare and 
grade the examination provided for in Sec. 10.7(b), maintain the 
register provided for in Sec. 10.5, and perform such other duties in 
connection with enrollment and recognition of attorneys and agents as 
may be necessary.
    (2) Conduct investigations into possible violations by practitioners 
of Disciplinary Rules, with the consent of the Committee on Discipline 
initiate disciplinary proceedings under Sec. 10.132(b), and perform such 
other duties in connection with investigations and disciplinary 
proceedings as may be necessary.
    (c) Review of Director's decision. Any final decision of the 
Director refusing to register an individual under Sec. 10.6, recognize 
an individual under Sec. 10.9 or Sec. 10.14(c), or reinstate a suspended 
or excluded petitioner under Sec. 10.160, may be reviewed by petition to 
the Commissioner upon payment of the fee set forth in Sec. 1.21(a)(5). A 
petition filed more than 30 days after the date of the decision of the 
Director may be dismissed as untimely. Any petition shall contain (1) a 
statement of the facts involved and the points to be reviewed and (2) 
the action requested. Briefs or memoranda, if any, in support of the 
petition shall accompany or be embodied therein. The petition will be 
decided on the basis of the record made before the Director and no new 
evidence will be considered by the Commissioner in deciding the 
petition. Copies of documents already of record before the Director 
shall not be submitted with the petition. An oral hearing on the 
petition will not be granted except when considered necessary by the 
Commissioner.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
0651-0012)