[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: 37CFR10.14]

[Page 350-351]
 
              TITLE 37--PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS
 
                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 10--REPRESENTATION OF OTHERS BEFORE THE PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 10.14  Individuals who may practice before the Office in trademark and other non-patent cases.

    (a) Attorneys. Any individual who is an attorney may represent 
others before the Office in trademark and other non-patent cases. An 
attorney is not required to apply for registration or recognition to 
practice before the Office in trademark and other non-patent cases.
    (b) Non-lawyers. Individuals who are not attorneys are not 
recognized to practice before the Office in trademark and other non-
patent cases, except that individuals not attorneys who were recognized 
to practice before the Office in trademark cases under this chapter 
prior to January 1, 1957, will be recognized as agents to continue 
practice before the Office in trademark cases.
    (c) Foreigners. Any foreign attorney or agent not a resident of the 
United States who shall prove to the satisfaction of the Director that 
he or she is registered or in good standing before the patent or 
trademark office of the country in which he or she resides and 
practices, may be recognized for the limited purpose of representing 
parties located in such country before the Office in the presentation 
and prosecution of trademark cases, provided: The patent or trademark 
office of such country allows substantially reciprocal privileges to 
those permitted to practice in trademark cases before the United States 
Patent and Trademark Office. Recognition under this paragraph shall 
continue only during the period that the conditions specified in this 
paragraph obtain.
    (d) Recognition of any individual under this section shall not be 
construed as sanctioning or authorizing the performance of any act 
regarded in

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the jurisdiction where performed as the unauthorized practice of law.
    (e) No individual other than those specified in paragraphs (a), (b), 
and (c) of this section will be permitted to practice before the Office 
in trademark cases. Any individual may appear in a trademark or other 
non-patent case in his or her own behalf. Any individual may appear in a 
trademark case for (1) a firm of which he or she is a member or (2) a 
corporation or association of which he or she is an officer and which he 
or she is authorized to represent, if such firm, corporation, or 
association is a party to a trademark proceeding pending before the 
Office.