Patent Attorney Act Article 39

A patent agent who violates the preceding article, Article 7 applicable mutatis mutandis under Paragraph 2 of Article 36, or being convicted by a final and irrevocable judgement or ruling for a crime relevant to his/her profession shall be subject to disciplinary actions in the form of a warning, a reprimand, suspension from practicing for a period not less than 2 months but no more than 2 years, or revocation of the Patent Agent License, depending on the severity of the misbehaving conduct, by the Specific Patent Agency.A patent agent who has received 3 warnings accumulatively shall be deemed as receiving one reprimand; a patent agent who has received 3 reprimands accumulatively shall be subject to the disciplinary action of suspension from practicing. Where the accumulative time period of suspension from practicing of a patent agent reaches 3 years, his/her Patent Agent License shall be repealed.