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28 U.S.C. § 1745 — Copies of foreign patent documents
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Copies of the specifications and drawings of foreign letters patent, or applications for foreign letters patent, and copies of excerpts of the official journals and other official publications of foreign patent offices belonging to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, certified in the manner provided by [section 1744 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section1744&num=0&edition=prelim) are prima facie evidence of their contents and of the dates indicated on their face.
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Copies of the specifications and drawings of foreign letters patent, or applications for foreign letters patent, and copies of excerpts of the official journals and other official publications of foreign patent offices belonging to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, certified in the manner provided by [section 1744 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section1744&num=0&edition=prelim) are prima facie evidence of their contents and of the dates indicated on their face.
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**(a) Establishment.—** The United States Patent and Trademark Office is established as an agency of the United States, within the Department of Commerce. In carrying out its functions, the United States Patent and Trademark Office shall be subject to the policy direction of the Secretary of Commerce, but otherwise shall retain responsibility for decisions regarding the management and administration of its operations and shall exercise independent control of its budget allocations and expenditures, personnel decisions and processes, procurements, and other administrative and management functions in accordance with this title and applicable provisions of law. Those operations designed to grant and issue patents and those operations which are designed to facilitate the registration of trademarks shall be treated as separate operating units within the Office.
**(b) Offices.—** The United States Patent and Trademark Office shall maintain its principal office in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area, for the service of process and papers and for the purpose of carrying out its functions. The United States Patent and Trademark Office shall be deemed, for purposes of venue in civil actions, to be a resident of the district in which its principal office is located, except where jurisdiction is otherwise provided by law. The United States Patent and Trademark Office may establish satellite offices in such other places in the United States as it considers necessary and appropriate in the conduct of its business.
**(c) Reference.—** For purposes of this title, the United States Patent and Trademark Office shall also be referred to as the “Office” and the “Patent and Trademark Office”.
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Wherever, under any law of the United States or under any rule, regulation, order, or requirement made pursuant to law, any matter is required or permitted to be supported, evidenced, established, or proved by the sworn declaration, verification, certificate, statement, oath, or affidavit, in writing of the person making the same (other than a deposition, or an oath of office, or an oath required to be taken before a specified official other than a notary public), such matter may, with like force and effect, be supported, evidenced, established, or proved by the unsworn declaration, certificate, verification, or statement, in writing of such person which is subscribed by him, as true under penalty of perjury, and dated, in substantially the following form:
(1) If executed without the United States: “I declare (or certify, verify, or state) under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on (date).(Signature)”.
(2) If executed within the United States, its territories, possessions, or commonwealths: “I declare (or certify, verify, or state) under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on (date).(Signature)”.
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Copies of letters patent or of any records, books, papers, or drawings belonging to the United States Patent and Trademark Office and relating to patents, authenticated under the seal of the United States Patent and Trademark Office and certified by the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, or by another officer of the United States Patent and Trademark Office authorized to do so by the Director, shall be admissible in evidence with the same effect as the originals.
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TITLE 28—JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
§ 1746
tor of the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, or by another officer of the United States
Patent and Trademark Office authorized to do
so by the Director, shall be admissible in evi-
dence with the same effect as the originals.
Any person making application and paying the
required fee may obtain such certified copies.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 948; May 24, 1949,
ch. 139, § 92(c), 63 Stat. 103; Pub. L. 106–113, div.
B, § 1000(a)(9) [title IV, § 4732(b)(15)(B), (C)], Nov.
29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–584.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Based on section 127 of title 15, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Com-
merce and Trade, and title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 673 (R.S.
§ 892; Mar. 19, 1920, ch. 104, § 7, 41 Stat. 535; Mar. 4, 1925,
ch. 535, § 2, 43 Stat. 1269).
For purposes of uniformity, words ‘‘written or print-
ed,’’ at the beginning of the section, were omitted.
Similar sections in this chapter do not contain such
words.
Words ‘‘or in his name attested by a chief of division
duly designated by the commissioner,’’ after ‘‘Commis-
sioner of Patents,’’ were omitted as unnecessary.
Changes in phraseology were made.
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1999—Pub. L. 106–113 substituted ‘‘United States Pat-
ent and Trademark Office’’ for ‘‘Patent Office’’ wher-
ever appearing in section catchline and text and in text
substituted ‘‘Under Secretary of Commerce for Intel-
lectual Property and Director of the United States Pat-
ent and Trademark Office’’ for ‘‘Commissioner of Pat-
ents’’ and ‘‘Director’’ for ‘‘Commissioner’’.
1949—Act May 24, 1949, substituted ‘‘patents’’ after
‘‘relating to’’ for ‘‘registered trade-marks, labels, or
prints’’, and inserted ‘‘or by another officer of the Pat-
ent Office auth
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