35 U.S.C. § 25 — Declaration in lieu of oath

submitted 62 years ago by Pub. L. 88-292 to r/title-35-PATENTS · 94 words · no verdicts yet

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The Director can let people file a written declaration instead of a sworn oath in Patent Office documents. This applies even when a law or rule usually requires that document to be under oath. The declaration must warn that willful false statements can lead to fines or imprisonment.

(a) The Director may set a rule allowing any document filed in the Patent and Trademark Office — one that a law, rule, or regulation says must be under oath — to instead be signed with a written declaration, in whatever form the Director prescribes. That declaration replaces the oath that would otherwise be required. (b) Whenever such a written declaration is used, the document must warn the person signing that willfully making false statements, and similar conduct, is punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, under 18 U.S.C. § 1001.

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(a)

The Director may by rule prescribe that any document to be filed in the Patent and Trademark Office and which is required by any law, rule, or other regulation to be under oath may be subscribed to by a written declaration in such form as the Director may prescribe, such declaration to be in lieu of the oath otherwise required.

(b)

Whenever such written declaration is used, the document must warn the declarant that willful false statements and the like are punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both (18 U.S.C. 1001).

Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 88–292, § 1, Mar. 26, 1964, 78 Stat. 171; amended Pub. L. 93–596, § 1, Jan. 2, 1975, 88 Stat. 1949; Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(9) [title IV, § 4732(a)(10)(A)], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–582; Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title III, § 13206(b)(1)(B), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1906.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1964Enacted · Pub. L. 88-292 · 78 Stat. 171
1975Amended · Pub. L. 93-596 · 88 Stat. 1949
1999Amended · Pub. L. 106-113 · 113 Stat. 1536, 1501
2002Amended · Pub. L. 107-273 · 116 Stat. 1906

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 88-292 on 1964-03-26.

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