---
kind: "section"
citation: "37 C.F.R. § 1.422"
title: "37"
number: "1.422"
heading: "Legal representative as applicant in an international application."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/37/1.422"
---

# §1.422. Legal representative as applicant in an international application.


If an inventor is deceased or under legal incapacity, the legal representative of the inventor may be an applicant in an international application which designates the United States of America.


## Notes

### Amendments

[77 FR 48823, Aug. 14, 2012]

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 1.401 to 1.499 also issued under 35 U.S.C. 41 and 351 through 376.

### Source

Source: 43 FR 20466, May 11, 1978, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 35 U.S.C. 2(b)(2), unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 24 FR 10332, Dec. 22, 1959, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[77 FR 48823, Aug. 14, 2012]