[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: 37CFR4.1]

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              TITLE 37--PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS
 
  CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                                COMMERCE
 
PART 4_COMPLAINTS REGARDING INVENTION PROMOTERS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 4.1  Complaints regarding invention promoters.

    These regulations govern the Patent and Trademark Office's (Office) 
responsibilities under the Inventors' Rights Act of 1999, which can be 
found in the U.S. Code at 35 U.S.C. 297. The Act requires the Office to 
provide a forum for the publication of complaints concerning invention 
promoters. The Office will not conduct any independent investigation of 
the invention promoter. Although the Act provides additional civil 
remedies for persons injured by invention promoters, those remedies must 
be pursued by the injured party without the involvement of the Office.