"Disciplinary Rules for Patent Agents (Trial)" Article 7 A patent agent shall be ordered to make corrections under any of the following circumstances and be punished in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 of these Rules:
(1) Practicing in two or more patent agencies at the same time;
(2) Defaming other patent agents and patent agencies, or harming their interests in an improper way;
(3) Accepting entrustment privately, charging fees from the client privately, accepting the property of the client, seeking the disputed rights and interests of the parties by providing patent agency services, or accepting the property of the other party;
(4) Obstructing or hindering the other party from legally obtaining evidence;
(five) interfere with the normal work of patent examination or patent administrative law enforcement;
(six) the staff of the patent administration department engaged in patent agency business after retirement, and acted as the agent for the patent application cases or patent cases examined and handled by himself;
(seven) revealing the business secrets or personal privacy of customers;
(eight) caused great losses to the parties due to the fault;
(9) engaging in other illegal business activities.
Article 8 Under any of the following circumstances, the person directly responsible shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of Item (3) or Item (4) of Article 5 of these Rules, and the patent agency to which he belongs may also be punished in accordance with the provisions of Item (3) or Item (4) of Article 4 of these Rules:
(a) in violation of the provisions of Article 19 of the Patent Law, disclosing the contents of the client's invention and creation;
(2) plagiarizing the invention and creation of the client;