Committee on Professional Ethics
Topic: Designation of Patent Attorney on Business Card; Inactive Status and Designation of Specialty
Digest of the Committee:
“An attorney whose registration/admission status before the United States Patent and Trademark Office is “inactive” may not use the designation patent attorney on his business card unless he notes that he is on administrative leave and as such is unable to prosecute matters for others before the USPTO.”
Rules: New York Rules of Professional Conduct 7.1(a) and (b), 7.4(b), 7.5 (a), 8.4(c)
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