No. 17726
Promulgation Date 2020-12-22
Ministry of Intellectual Property
ALL
Article 1 (Purpose)
Article 1-5 Deleted.
Article 2 (Work)
Article 3 (Qualification)
Article 4 (Grounds for Disqualification)
Article 4-2 (Patent Attorney Examinations)
Article 4-3 (Partial Exemption from Examination)
Article 4-4 Deleted.
Article 4-5 (Sanction for Cheating in Examination)
Article 5 (Registration)
Article 5-2 (Refusal of Registration)
Article 5-3 (Revocation of Registration)
Article 6 (Registration Fees)
Article 6-2 (Establishment of Offices)
Article 6-3 (Incorporation of Patent Firms)
Article 6-4 (Partners, etc. of Patent Firms)
Article 6-5 (Offices of Patent Firms)
Article 6-6 (Business Practices of Patent Firms)
Article 6-7 (Restrictions on Business Activities of Partners of Patent Firms)
Article 6-8 (Revocation of Authorization for Incorporation of Patent Firms)
Article 6-9 (Dissolution of Patent Firms)
Article 6-10 (Conversion of Patent Firms into Limited Liability Patent Firms)
Article 6-11 (Provisions Applicable Mutatis Mutandis to Patent Firms)
Article 6-12 (Incorporation of Limited Liability Patent Firms)
Article 6-13 (Partners of Limited Liability Patent Firms)
Article 6-14 (Offices of Limited Liability Patent Firms)
Article 6-15 (Business Practices of Patent Firms Limited Liability)
Article 6-16 (Equity Capital of Limited Liability Patent Firms)
Article 6-17 (Restrictions on Investment of Limited Liability Patent Firm in Other Corporations)
Article 6-18 (Professional Indemnity Reserve of Limited Liability Patent Firms)
Article 6-19 (Revocation of Authorization for Incorporation of Limited Liability Patent Firms)
Article 6-20 (Dissolution of Limited Liability Patent Firms)
Article 6-21 (Accounting of Limited Liability Patent Firms)
Article 6-22 (Provisions Applicable Mutatis Mutandis to Limited Liability Patent Firms)
Article 7 (Cases Not to Be Accepted)
Article 7-2 (Prohibition on Affiliation with Non-Patent Attorney)
Article 8 (Qualification to become Litigation Representative)
Article 8-2 (Obligations to Maintain Dignity, Conscientiousness and Fairness)
Article 8-3 (Prohibition against Lending Name)
Article 8-4 (Clerks)
Article 9 (Establishment of Korea Patent Attorneys Association)
Article 10 (Rules of Patent Attorneys Association)
Article 11 (Obligatory Membership in Patent Attorneys Association)
Article 12 (Code of Ethics)
Article 13 (Supervision over Patent Attorneys Association)
Article 14 (Disclosure of Information)
Article 15 (Training for Patent Attorneys)
Article 16 (Patent Attorney Qualification and Disciplinary Committee)
Article 17 (Disciplinary Actions)
Article 17-2 (Effect of Disciplinary Actions against Attorneys-at-Law)
Article 18 (Dispositions Suspending Qualifications)
Article 19 Deleted.
Article 20 Deleted.
Article 21 (Prohibition against Provision of Patent Services by Non-Patent Attorney)
Article 22 (Prohibition against Use of Similar Titles or Names)
Article 23 (Misappropriation or Divulgence)
Article 24 (Penalty Provisions)
Article 25 (Prohibition against Provision of Patent Services by Unregistered Patent Attorneys)
Article 26 (Joint Penalty Provisions)
Article 26-2 (Confiscation and Punitive Collection)
Article 27 (Administrative Fines)
Article 28 (Entrustment of Administrative Affairs)
Article 29 (Re-Exam on Regulation)
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