[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: 37CFR10.159]

[Page 373]
 
              TITLE 37--PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS
 
                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 10--REPRESENTATION OF OTHERS BEFORE THE PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 10.159  Notice of suspension or exclusion.

    (a) Upon issuance of a final decision reprimanding a practitioner or 
suspending or excluding a practitioner from practice before the Office, 
the Director shall give notice of the final decision to appropriate 
employees of the Office and to interested departments, agencies, and 
courts of the United States. The Director shall also give notice to 
appropriate authorities of any State in which a practitioner is known to 
be a member of the bar and any appropriate bar association.
    (b) The Director shall cause to be published in the Official Gazette 
the name of any practitioner suspended or excluded from practice. Unless 
otherwise ordered by the Commissioner, the Director shall publish in the 
Official Gazette the name of any practitioner reprimanded by the 
Commissioner.
    (c) The Director shall maintain records, which shall be available 
for public inspection, of every disciplinary proceeding where a 
practitioner is reprimanded, suspended, or excluded unless the 
Commissioner orders that the proceeding be kept confidential.