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The update is done to take advantage of computerized delivery of examinations, and to enable registration applicants to benefit in several ways, including scheduling the examination a their convenience and having more opportunities to take the examination.  \nDATES: Effective Date: July 26, 2004.  \nFOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  \nHarry I. Moatz ((703) 305–9145), Director of Enrollment and Discipline (OED Director), directly by phone, or by facsimile to (703) 305–4136, marked to the attention of Mr. Moatz, or by mail addressed to: Mail Stop OED—Ethics Rules, U. S. Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, Virginia 22313–1450.  \nSUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office published proposed rules regarding‘‘Changes to Representation of Others Before The United States Patent and Trademark Office’’ on December 12, 2003 (68 FR 69442) and provided a sixty-day comment period that ended on February 10, 2004. The proposed rules included Subpart A, General Provisions, Subpart B, Recognition To Practice Before The Office, Subpart C, Investigations and Disciplinary Proceedings, and Subpart D, United States Patent and Trademark Office Rules of Professional Conduct. The Office published in the Federal Register an initial extension on January 29, 2004 (69 FR 4269) of the period for public comment regarding the ethics rules in Subpart D of the proposed rules. Additional time for public comment was allowed for consideration of whether the Rules for Professional Conduct should include the revisions to the Model Rules as amended by the American Bar Association at the end of its February 2002 Midyear Meeting, also known as the Ethics 2000 revision. The Office thereafter published in the Federal Register notice on March 3,  \n2004 (69 FR 9986) of an extension for public comment on proposed rules  \n1.4(d)(2), 1.8(a)(2)(iii)(A), 1. 21(a)(6) through (a)(9), 1.21(a)(11), 1.21(a)(12), 2. 11, 2. 17, 2. 24, 2. 33, 2.61, 11. 2(b)(4) through 11.2(b)(7), 11.3(b) and (c), 11. 5(b), 11.8(d), 11.9(c) (last two sentences), 11.9(d), 11. 10(c) (second sentence), 11. 10(d) (second sentence), 11. 10(e) (second sentence), 11. 11(b) through (f), 11.12 through 11.62, and 11.100 through 11.900 as well as the definitions in proposed rule 11.1 of terms that are used only in rules in Subparts B, C and D, USPTO Rules of Professional Conduct.  \nTime was not extended to comment upon the provisions in proposed rules 1.1, 1.21(a)(1) through (a)(5), 1.21(a)(10), 1.31, 1.33(c), 1.455(a), 11.2(a) through  \n11.2(b)(3), 11.2(c) through 11.2(e), 11.3(a) and (d), 11.4 through 11.5(a), 11.6 through 11.8(c), 11.9(a) through  \n11.9(c) (first sentence), 11.10(a) through  \n11. 10(c) (first sentence), 11. 10(d) (first sentence), 11. 10(e) (first and third sentences), and 11. 11(a), as well as the definitions in proposed rule 11.1 of terms used in the rules.  \nThe rules adopted at this time apply only prospectively.  \nAt this time, nearly 29,000 individuals are registered as patent attorneys and agents, of whom about 80% have indicated that they are attorneys. Most have been registered by taking and passing a paper registration examination that was usually offered twice a year. The existing rules, adopted in 1985, largely continued the practicesand procedures adopted and followed since the 1930’s. They were well suited to support delivery of a paper registration examination twice a year to several hundred applicants.  \nThe number of persons seeking registration has grown from a few hundred to several thousand annually. 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