USPTO announces final rule to eliminate handwritten signature requirement

Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. USPTO Alert USPTO announces final rule to eliminate handwritten signature requirement The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is eliminating the handwritten signature requirement set forth in 37 CFR § 1.4(e) by a final rule, effective July 2, 2021. Section 1.4(e) required original handwritten signatures in dark ink on correspondence relating to (1) registration to practice before the Office and other matters within the purview of the Office of Enrollment and Discipline (OED), and (2) payments by credit card where the payment is not being made via the Office's electronic filing systems. The removal of § 1.4(e) makes permanent the USPTO's waiver of these signature requirements published in the Federal Register on March 30, 2020 (85 FR 17502). Elimination of § 1.4(e) allows, for example, the use of facsimile transmissions and S-signatures, and facilitates implementation of an electronic filing system within the OED. As a conforming change, this final rule also removes § 1.6(d)(1) to eliminate an obsolete cross reference to § 1.4(e). Stay connected with the USPTO by subscribing to regular email updates. Visit our subscription center at www.uspto.gov/subscribe to update or change your email preferences. This email was sent from an unmonitored mailbox. To contact us, please visit our website www.uspto.gov/about/contacts. To ensure that you continue to receive our news and notices, please modify your email filters to allow mail from subscriptioncenter@subscriptions.uspto.gov.

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