[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 37, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 37CFR10.33]

[Page 364]
 
              TITLE 37--PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                                COMMERCE
 
PART 10--REPRESENTATION OF OTHERS BEFORE THE PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE--
Table of Contents
 
Sec. 10.33  Direct contact with prospective clients.

    A practitioner may not solicit professional employment from a 
prospective client with whom the practitioner has no family or prior 
professional relationship, by mail, in-person or otherwise, when a 
significant motive for the practitioner's doing so is the practitioner's 
pecuniary gain under circumstances evidencing undue influence, 
intimidation, or overreaching. The term ``solicit'' includes contact in 
person, by telephone or telegraph, by letter or other writing, or by 
other communication directed to a specific recipient, but does not 
include letters addressed or advertising circulars distributed generally 
to persons not specifically known to need legal services of the kind 
provided by the practitioner in a particular matter, but who are so 
situated that they might in general find such services useful.