This is a newly created form which may be used by an assignee (e.g., a corporation)
to give a Power of Attorney to registered practitioners (either by individual
name(s) or to those registered practitioners who are associated with a customer
number) for (all) applications assigned to the assignee, and individual patent
application numbers are not indicated. After execution of a single PTO/SB/80
form by the assignee, a copy of the executed PTO/SB/80 form, together with
a statement under 37 CFR 3.73(b) (using, for example, a PTO/SB/96 form) which
identifies one specific patent application (which may be executed by a practitioner
if the practitioner is authorized to act on behalf of the assignee), may be
filed in the one specific application to establish a power of attorney for
the registered practitioner(s) in that specific application.
The advantage of the use of this PTO/SB/80 form is that an assignee only has
to be asked to sign this one Power of Attorney to Prosecute Applications Before
the USPTO form, as copies of it can then be used to establish the desired
power of attorney in (all) the patent applications of the assignee. To establish
a power of attorney in each of the individual applications of the assignee,
the attorney(s) would file: 1) a copy of the one executed PTO/SB/80 form,
and 2) an application specific statement under 37 CFR 3.73(b) (using, for
example, a PTO/SB/96 form).