---
kind: "section"
citation: "37 C.F.R. § 41.206"
title: "37"
number: "41.206"
heading: "Common interests in the invention."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/37/41.206"
---

# §41.206. Common interests in the invention.


An administrative patent judge may decline to declare, or if already declared the Board may issue judgment in, an interference between an application and another application or patent that are commonly owned.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 35 U.S.C. 2(b)(2), 3(a)(2)(A), 21, 23, 32, 41, 134, 135, and Public Law 112-29.

### Source

Source: 69 FR 50003, Aug. 12, 2004, unless otherwise noted.