Regulations last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

Title 37 - Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights last revised: Nov 20, 2024
§ 11.301 - Meritorious claims and contentions.

A practitioner shall not bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein, unless there is a basis in law and fact for doing so that is not frivolous, which includes a good-faith argument for an extension, modification or reversal of existing law.

authority: 5 U.S.C. 500; 15 U.S.C. 1123; 35 U.S.C. 2(b)(2), 32, 41; Sec. 1, Pub. L. 113-227, 128 Stat. 2114
source: 69 FR 35452, June 24, 2004, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 37 CFR 11.301