[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: 37CFR10.31]

[Page 354-355]
 
              TITLE 37--PATENTS, TRADEMARKS, AND COPYRIGHTS
 
                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 10--REPRESENTATION OF OTHERS BEFORE THE PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 10.31  Communications concerning a practitioner's services.

    (a) No practitioner shall with respect to any prospective business 
before the Office, by word, circular, letter, or advertising, with 
intent to defraud in any manner, deceive, mislead, or threaten any 
prospective applicant or other person having immediate or prospective 
business before the Office.
    (b) A practitioner may not use the name of a Member of either House 
of Congress or of an individual in the service of the United States in 
advertising the practitioner's practice before the Office.
    (c) Unless authorized under Sec. 10.14(b), a non-lawyer practitioner 
shall not hold himself or herself out as authorized to practice before 
the Office in trademark cases.
    (d) Unless a practitioner is an attorney, the practitioner shall not 
hold himself or herself out:

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    (1) To be an attorney or lawyer or
    (2) As authorized to practice before the Office in non-patent and 
trademark cases.