---
kind: "section"
citation: "35 U.S.C. § 31"
title: "35"
title_heading: "Patents"
number: "31"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(9) [title IV, § 4715(b)], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–580"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/35/31"
units:
  - "Part I — United States Patent and Trademark Office"
  - "Chapter 3 — Practice Before Patent and Trademark Office"
---

# [§31. Repealed. Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(9) [title IV, § 4715(b)], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–580 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, acts July 19, 1952, ch. 950, 66 Stat. 795; Pub. L. 93–596, § 1, Jan. 2, 1975, 88 Stat. 1949, authorized the Commissioner to prescribe regulations for agents and attorneys.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of Repeal

Repeal effective 4 months after Nov. 29, 1999, see section 1000(a)(9) [title IV, § 4731] of Pub. L. 106–113, set out as an Effective Date of 1999 Amendment note under section 1 of this title.