OFFICE OF ENROLLMENT AND DISCIPLINE

Office of Enrollment and Discipline.Patents. The division of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office charged with licensing patent attorneys and patent agents, and with hearing complaints involving their misconduct. • The Office is authorized to sanction practitioners, and to suspend or disbar them from practice before the PTO. Its authority is concurrent with state disciplinary procedures. [Cases: Patents 97. C.J.S. Patents §§ 135–138, 145, 178.]

[Blacks Law 8th]