(1) Applications for trademark registration shall be examined in the order of the applications filed.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Commissioner of the Korean Intellectual Property Office may require examiners to examine any of the following applications for trademark registration in preference to other applications for trademark registration:
1. Where a person who is not an applicant is deemed to use a trademark identical or similar to the trademark for the registration of which an application has been filed on the same or similar designated goods as his or her business without justifiable grounds, after an application for trademark registration has been filed;
2. Where urgent management of an application for trademark registration is deemed necessary, which is prescribed by Presidential Decree, because an applicant uses a trademark for the registration of which an application has been filed on all the designated goods.