(1) The Commissioner of the Korean Intellectual Property Office may conduct affairs concerning the digitization of documents concerning applications for trademark registration, examinations, trials or retrials or the Trademark register, or affairs similar thereto (hereinafter referred to as "digitization of trademark documents") by utilizing the electronic data processing system and using technology in the electronic data processing system in order to efficiently perform trademark-related procedures.
(2) The Commissioner of the Korean Intellectual Property Office may entrust the digitization of trademark documents to a corporation equipped with facilities and human resources prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.
(3) A current or former executive officer or employee of a person entrusted with the digitization of trademark documents under paragraph (2) (hereinafter referred to as “agency for digitizing trademark documents”) shall not divulge or pirate confidential information he or she has become aware of regarding trademark the registration of which is pending in the course of performing his or her duties. <Newly Inserted on Apr. 17, 2018>
(4) The Commissioner of the Korean Intellectual Property Office may digitize applications for trademark registrations and other documents prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, which have not been submitted in electronic form under Article 30 (1), pursuant to paragraph (1), and store such applications and documents in the file of the Korean Intellectual Property Office or the Intellectual Property Trial and Appeal Board. <Amended on Apr. 17, 2018>
(5) Content stored in the file pursuant to paragraph (4) shall be deemed the same content as that stated in the relevant documents. <Amended on Apr. 17, 2018>
(6) Methods of digitization of trademark documents and other matters necessary for the digitization of trademark documents shall be prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. <Amended on Apr. 17, 2018>
(7) Where an agency for digitizing trademark documents fails to comply with standards for facilities and human resources prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, as prescribed in paragraph (2) or an executive officer or employee of such agency divulges or pirates confidential information he or she has become aware of regarding trademark the registration of which is pending, the Commissioner of the Korean Intellectual Property Office may order such agency for digitizing trademark documents to make corrections; and where the agency for digitizing trademark documents fails to comply with his or her order to make corrections, he or she may revoke the entrustment of the digitization of trademark documents. In such cases, the Commissioner of the Korean Intellectual Property Officer shall provide any party subject to revocation with an opportunity to state its or his or her opinion in advance. <Amended on Apr. 17, 2018>