OED Warns Patent Agents: Stay In Your Lane
The Office of Enrollment and Discipline wants registered Patent Agents to know that they cannot practice trademark law.
Patent agents are one of the few individuals who are legally authorized to provide legal services without being a member of a State Bar. Patent agents, like other registered patent practitioners, are authorized to engage in the limited practice of patent law before the USPTO. Pursuant to federal regulation, a registered patent agent is authorized to “practice…