37 CFR 11.301 — Meritorious claims and contentions

Ninth Edition, Revision 01.2024

A practitioner shall not bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein, unless there is a basis in law and fact for doing so that is not frivolous, which includes a good-faith argument for an extension, modification or reversal of existing law.

[Added 78 FR 20180, Apr. 3, 2013, effective May 3, 2013]