35 U.S.C. § 26 — Effect of defective execution

submitted 62 years ago by Pub. L. 88-292 to r/title-35-PATENTS · 54 words · no verdicts yet

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If a document filed with the Patent and Trademark Office isn't signed or executed the way the rules require, the Director can still accept it for now. The filer must then submit a properly executed version within whatever time the Director sets.

If you must file a document with the Patent and Trademark Office, and a law, rule, or regulation says it has to be executed (signed and completed) in a specific way, the Director may still provisionally accept it even though it wasn't executed correctly. This is allowed only if you later file a properly executed version of the document, within whatever time the Director prescribes.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Any document to be filed in the Patent and Trademark Office and which is required by any law, rule, or other regulation to be executed in a specified manner may be provisionally accepted by the Director despite a defective execution, provided a properly executed document is submitted within such time as may be prescribed.

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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