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TMEP 611.06(a): Joint Owners

October 2017 Edition of the TMEP

TMEP Chapter Index
Chapter 600: Attorney, Representative, and Signature
611: Signature on Correspondence Filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office
611.06: Guidelines on Persons with Legal Authority to Bind Certain Juristic Entities

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611.06(a)    Joint Owners

Joint owners are individual parties and not a single entity.  Where a document must be signed by someone with legal authority to bind joint owners, the document must be signed by all the owners. See37 C.F.R. §§2.17(c)(2), 2.19(a)(1), 2.193(e)(2)(ii), 2.193(e)(3), 2.193(e)(5)(ii), 2.193(e)(6), 2.193(e)(8), and 2.193(e)(9)(ii).