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PTO Ethical Rules

By nipper

Why in the world is it so difficult to find the USPTO Code of Professional Responsibility online? Why isn’t it clearly linked to on the OED’s website? Seriously! While those rules are hammered into every attorney’s head (they are generally duplicative of our state bar ethics rules), non-attorney practitioners (in my experience) don’t always remember them (e.g., if you advertise on the Internet, Rule §10.32 requires you to “include the name of at least one practitioner responsible for [the advertisement's] content.”). Where is it located? It is located in MPEP - Appendix R at Section 10 et seq. For the benefit of future Internet searches, please pardon the following list of keywords: § 10.4 Committee on Discipline, § 10...continue to full post

Full post as published by Invent Blog on August 14, 2008 (boomark / email).