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37 CFR §11.507

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A practitioner shall be subject to the USPTO Rules of Professional Conduct with respect to the provision of law-related services if the law-related services are provided:
  1. (a)By the practitioner in circumstances that are not distinct from the practitioner's provision of legal services to clients; or
  2. (b)In other circumstances by an entity controlled by the practitioner individually or with others if the practitioner fails to take reasonable measures to assure that a person obtaining the law-related services knows that the services are not legal services and that the protections of the client-practitioner relationship do not exist.