1. Regulations
  2. title 37
  3. chapter I
  4. part 11
  5. subpart D
  6. subjgrp 197
  7. § 11.301

View all text of Subjgrp 197 [§ 11.301 - § 11.400]

§ 11.301 - Meritorious claims and contentions.

A practitioner shall not bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein, unless there is a basis in law and fact for doing so that is not frivolous, which includes a good-faith argument for an extension, modification or reversal of existing law.

AUTHORITY: 5 U.S.C. 500; 15 U.S.C. 1123; 35 U.S.C. 2(b)(2), 32, 41; Sec. 1, Pub. L. 113-227, 128 Stat. 2114.

SOURCE: 69 FR 35452, June 24, 2004, unless otherwise noted.

CITE AS: 37 CFR 11.301