[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 37, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 37CFR1.425]

[Page 117-118]
 
              TITLE 37--PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS
 
                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 1--RULES OF PRACTICE IN PATENT CASES--Table of Contents
 
             Subpart C--International Processing Provisions
 
Sec. 1.425  Filing by other than inventor.

    Where an international application which designates the United 
States of America is filed and where one or more

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inventors refuse to sign the Request for the international application 
or cannot be found or reached after diligent effort, the Request need 
not be signed by such inventor if it is signed by another applicant. 
Such international application must be accompanied by a statement 
explaining to the satisfaction of the Commissioner the lack of the 
signature concerned.

[62 FR 53199, Oct. 10, 1997]

                      The International Application