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
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.
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.)
- 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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