---
kind: "section"
citation: "37 C.F.R. § 11.507"
title: "37"
number: "11.507"
heading: "Responsibilities regarding law-related services."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/37/11.507"
---

# §11.507. Responsibilities regarding law-related services.


A practitioner shall be subject to the USPTO Rules of Professional Conduct with respect to the provision of law-related services if the law-related services are provided:

- (a) By the practitioner in circumstances that are not distinct from the practitioner's provision of legal services to clients; or
- (b) In other circumstances by an entity controlled by the practitioner individually or with others if the practitioner fails to take reasonable measures to assure that a person obtaining the law-related services knows that the services are not legal services and that the protections of the client-practitioner relationship do not exist.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 78 FR 20201, Apr. 3, 2013, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

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

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