{"data":{"id":"us/37-cfr-11.507","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"37 CFR 11.507","heading":"Responsibilities regarding law-related services.","body":"A practitioner shall be subject to the USPTO Rules of Professional Conduct with respect to the provision of law-related services if the law-related services are provided:\n(a) By the practitioner in circumstances that are not distinct from the practitioner's provision of legal services to clients; or\n(b) In other circumstances by an entity controlled by the practitioner individually or with others if the practitioner fails to take reasonable measures to assure that a person obtaining the law-related services knows that the services are not legal services and that the protections of the client-practitioner relationship do not exist.","path":["Title 37—Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights","CHAPTER I—UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE","SUBCHAPTER A—GENERAL","PART 11—REPRESENTATION OF OTHERS BEFORE THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE","Subpart D—USPTO Rules of Professional Conduct"],"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":"7381f68ae4a5a6d23736cee1496ae5e8cc8c33c34197149ad8b8954b6c2ef8b8","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/37-cfr-11.506","next":"us/37-cfr-11.508-11.700"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}