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Title 37 → Chapter I → Subchapter A → Part 1 → Subpart B → §1.32
§1.32 Power of attorney.
(a) Definitions. (1) Patent practitioner means a registered patent attorney or registered patent agent under §11.6.
(2) Power of attorney means a written document by which a principal authorizes one or more patent practitioners or joint inventors to act on the principal's behalf.
(3) Principal means the applicant (§1.42) for an application for patent and the patent owner for a patent, including a patent in a supplemental examination or reexamination proceeding. The principal executes a power of attorney designating one or more patent practitioners or joint inventors to act on the principal's behalf.
(4) Revocation means the cancellation by the principal of the authority previously given to a patent practitioner or joint inventor to act on the principal's behalf.
(ii) Designate the fee address (§1.363) of a patent such that the fee address for the patent would be the address associated with the Customer Number; and
(6) Patent practitioner of record means a patent practitioner who has been granted a power of attorney in an application, patent, or other proceeding in compliance with paragraph (b) of this section. The phrases practitioner of record and attorney or agent of record also mean a patent practitioner who has been granted a power of attorney in an application, patent, or other proceeding in compliance with paragraph (b) of this section.
(2) Name one or more representatives in compliance with paragraph (c) of this section;
(4) Be signed by the applicant for patent (§1.42) or the patent owner. A patent owner who was not the applicant under §1.46 must appoint any power of attorney in compliance with §§3.71 and 3.73 of this chapter.
(1) One or more joint inventors (§1.45);
(d) A power of attorney from a prior national application for which benefit is claimed under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) in a continuing application may have effect in the continuing application if a copy of the power of attorney from the prior application is filed in the continuing application unless:
(1) The power of attorney was granted by the inventor; and
(2) The continuing application names an inventor who was not named as an inventor in the prior application.
(e) If the power of attorney was granted by the originally named inventive entity, and an added inventor pursuant to §1.48 does not provide a power of attorney consistent with the power of attorney granted by the originally named inventive entity, the addition of the inventor results in the loss of that power of attorney upon grant of the §1.48 request. This provision does not preclude a practitioner from acting pursuant to §1.34, if applicable.
[69 FR 29877, May 26, 2004, as amended at 70 FR 56127, Sept. 26, 2005; 77 FR 48813, Aug. 14, 2012; 80 FR 17956, Apr. 2, 2015]