originally Q10) Can the paper designating the ten or fewer patent practitioners be filed separately from a Power of Attorney?
A24. If the power of attorney was already filed (e.g., as part of an oath or declaration), the rule requires that a new copy of the signed document must be filed with separate paper listing the patent practitioners to be entered. The Office will nevertheless be reasonable in enforcing the requirements of the rule. Therefore, if the power of attorney giving power of attorney to more than ten patent practitioners was inadvertently filed without a separate paper listing the patent practitioners to be made of record, the separate listing may be filed subsequently with a cover letter that identifies the power of attorney that has been previously filed and states that all the names on the separate listing appear in the power of attorney, the Office will enter the separate paper listing rather than requiring applicant to resubmit the documents as required in the rule.
Related Questions
- originally Q4) Can a power of attorney be given to the practitioners associated with a Customer Number, and then another power of attorney be filed to ten or fewer patent practitioners?
- originally Q10) Can the paper designating the ten or fewer patent practitioners be filed separately from a Power of Attorney?
- originally Q11) Can the separate paper list patent practitioners who are not listed on the power of attorney?
