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<p style="margin-block: 0px 20.4px; margin-bottom: 20.4px; margin-top: 0px;">You
can submit the POA at the time you take the action, I believe \u2013
sort of like if you were responding to an office action in an
application you just took over. They may not have recognized it
yet but the POA exists.</p>
<p style="margin-block: 0px 20.4px; margin-bottom: 20.4px; margin-top: 0px;">Besides,
1.33b item (2) provides for \u201c(2) A patent practitioner not of
record who acts in a representative capacity under the
provisions of § 1.34\u201d \u2013 i.e., you signing it asserts you are
properly acting in a representative capacity.</p>
<p style="margin-block: 0px 20.4px; margin-bottom: 20.4px; margin-top: 0px;">On
3/25/2025 5:38 PM, Patent Lawyer via Patentpractice wrote:</p>
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<font class="" face="Times">I need to notify the PTO of loss
of entitlement to small entity status for an issued patent
for which I am not the attorney of record. </font>
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<div class=""><font class="" face="Times">"The notification
that small entity status is no longer appropriate must be
signed by a party identified in <a class="cfr external" href="https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-37/section-1.33#p-1.33(b)">§
1.33(b)</a>." <a class="" href="https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-37/part-1#p-1.27(g)(2)">37 CFR
1.27(g)(2)</a></font>
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<div class=""><font class="" face="Times">I have
authorization and a signed power of attorney, but the
entity status has to be changed by tomorrow because a
fee is due, so there is no time to get the PTO to act
on a power of attorney. I.e., there is no time to
become of record.</font></div>
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power of attorney (not recorded in the PTO) give me
sufficient authority to act in a representative
capacity to sign under <a class="" href="https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-37/part-1#p-1.33(b)(2)">37 CFR
1.33(b)(2)</a>?</font></div>
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