---
kind: "section"
citation: "37 C.F.R. § 232.2"
title: "37"
number: "232.2"
heading: "Representations to the Board."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/37/232.2"
---

# §232.2. Representations to the Board.


By submitting materials or advocating positions before the Board, a participant certifies that to the best of the participant's knowledge, information, and belief, formed after a reasonable inquiry under the circumstances:

- (a) It is not being presented for any improper purpose;
- (b) Any legal contentions are made in good faith based on the participant's reasonable understanding of existing law;
- (c) Any factual contentions have evidentiary support or, if specifically so identified, will likely have evidentiary support after a reasonable opportunity for further investigation or discovery; and
- (d) Any denials of factual contentions have evidentiary support or, if specifically so identified, are reasonably based on belief or a lack of information.

## Notes

### Amendments

[87 FR 30090, May 17, 2022; 87 FR 36061, June 15, 2022]

### Authority

Authority: 17 U.S.C. 702, 1510.

### Source

Source: 87 FR 20713, Apr. 8, 2022, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[87 FR 30090, May 17, 2022; 87 FR 36061, June 15, 2022]