[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 37, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 37CFR1.66]

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              TITLE 37--PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                                COMMERCE
 
PART 1_RULES OF PRACTICE IN PATENT CASES--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart B_National Processing Provisions
 
Sec. 1.66  Officers authorized to administer oaths.

    (a) The oath or affirmation may be made before any person within the 
United States authorized by law to administer oaths. An oath made in a 
foreign country may be made before any

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diplomatic or consular officer of the United States authorized to 
administer oaths, or before any officer having an official seal and 
authorized to administer oaths in the foreign country in which the 
applicant may be, whose authority shall be proved by a certificate of a 
diplomatic or consular officer of the United States, or by an apostille 
of an official designated by a foreign country which, by treaty or 
convention, accords like effect to apostilles of designated officials in 
the United States. The oath shall be attested in all cases in this and 
other countries, by the proper official seal of the officer before whom 
the oath or affirmation is made. Such oath or affirmation shall be valid 
as to execution if it complies with the laws of the State or country 
where made. When the person before whom the oath or affirmation is made 
in this country is not provided with a seal, his official character 
shall be established by competent evidence, as by a certificate from a 
clerk of a court of record or other proper officer having a seal.
    (b) When the oath is taken before an officer in a country foreign to 
the United States, any accompanying application papers, except the 
drawings, must be attached together with the oath and a ribbon passed 
one or more times through all the sheets of the application, except the 
drawings, and the ends of said ribbon brought together under the seal 
before the latter is affixed and impressed, or each sheet must be 
impressed with the official seal of the officer before whom the oath is 
taken. If the papers as filed are not properly ribboned or each sheet 
impressed with the seal, the case will be accepted for examination, but 
before it is allowed, duplicate papers, prepared in compliance with the 
foregoing sentence, must be filed.

(35 U.S.C. 6; 15 U.S.C. 1113, 1123)

[47 FR 41275, Sept. 17, 1982]