
Upholding Your “Rights” Before OED
The USPTO Rules of Professional Conduct generally proscribe a practitioner’s failure to cooperate in an OED investigation, or a knowing failure to respond to a lawful request from an admissions or disciplinary authority. See 37 CFR § 11.801(b). Furthermore, OED notes in their requests for information that “if you do not respond to this request for information or any OED request, the Committee on Discipline may draw an adverse inference in making a determination under 37 CFR