Intellectual Property Case Adjudication Rules Article 74

In an administrative action concerning cancellation or revocation of a registered trademark or patent, the court shall still take into account any new evidence submitted on the same grounds for the cancellation or revocation prior to the end of the oral argument, provided the court may, pursuant to Article 132 of the Code of Administrative Procedure applying Paragraph 2, Article 196 of the Code of Civil Procedure mutatis mutandis, dismiss new evidence produced, if the conclusion of the action is impeded by the party's attempt to defer the proceeding or its failure, out of gross negligence, to follow the progress of the legal proceeding by presenting new evidence within an appropriate period prior to the end of oral argument.The competent intellectual property authority may request the court to allow the authority an adequate time for preparing any defense pleadings which the authority may be required by Paragraph 2, Article 70 of the Act to submit in response to the above-mentioned new evidence.