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[CITE: 35USC25]

 
                            TITLE 35--PATENTS
 
            PART I--UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
 
        CHAPTER 2--PROCEEDINGS IN THE PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
 
Sec. 25. Declaration in lieu of oath

    (a) The Director may by rule prescribe that any document to be filed 
in the Patent and Trademark Office and which is required by any law, 
rule, or other regulation to be under oath may be subscribed to by a 
written declaration in such form as the Director may prescribe, such 
declaration to be in lieu of the oath otherwise required.
    (b) Whenever such written declaration is used, the document must 
warn the declarant that willful false statements and the like are 
punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both (18 U.S.C. 1001).

(Added Pub. L. 88-292, Sec. 1, Mar. 26, 1964, 78 Stat. 171; amended Pub. 
L. 93-596, Sec. 1, Jan. 2, 1975, 88 Stat. 1949; Pub. L. 106-113, div. B, 
Sec. 1000(a)(9) [title IV, Sec. 4732(a)(10)(A)], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 
Stat. 1536, 1501A-582.)


                               Amendments

    1999--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106-113 substituted ``Director'' for 
``Commissioner'' in two places.
    1975--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 93-596 substituted ``Patent and Trademark 
Office'' for ``Patent Office''.


                    Effective Date of 1999 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 106-113 effective 4 months after Nov. 29, 1999, 
see section 1000(a)(9) [title IV, Sec. 4731] of Pub. L. 106-113, set out 
as a note under section 1 of this title.


                    Effective Date of 1975 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 93-596 effective Jan. 2, 1975, see section 4 of 
Pub. L. 93-596, set out as a note under section 1111 of Title 15, 
Commerce and Trade.
