{"data":{"id":"us/37-cfr-41.101","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"37 CFR 41.101","heading":"Notice of proceeding.","body":"(a) Notice of a contested case will be sent to every party to the proceeding. The entry of the notice initiates the proceeding.\n(b) When the Board is unable to provide actual notice of a contested case on a party through the correspondence address of record for the party, the Board may authorize other modes of notice, including:\n(1) Sending notice to another address associated with the party, or\n(2) Publishing the notice in the Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.","path":["Title 37—Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights","CHAPTER I—UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE","SUBCHAPTER A—GENERAL","PART 41—PRACTICE BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD","Subpart D—Contested Cases"],"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":"74bafed723f54e62af667121c3f82a31c15af26e409b406abbd5c935e70ef849","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/37-cfr-41.100","next":"us/37-cfr-41.102"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}