{"data":{"id":"us/37-cfr-1.422","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"37 CFR 1.422","heading":"Legal representative as applicant in an international application.","body":"If an inventor is deceased or under legal incapacity, the legal representative of the inventor may be an applicant in an international application which designates the United States of America.","path":["Title 37—Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights","CHAPTER I—UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE","SUBCHAPTER A—GENERAL","PART 1—RULES OF PRACTICE IN PATENT CASES","Subpart C—International Processing Provisions"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-37.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:25:45Z","sha256":"420122085a91c9f36b27a7891ab19d83d8212e95ff747cf1bb5879749a8f2cbc","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/37-cfr-1.421","next":"us/37-cfr-1.423"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}