The Korean Patent Law, which has been influenced by the Japanese Patent Law, clearly provides what the object of protection by the Patent Law is. It defines an invention as the highly advanced creation of technological ideas by utilizing rules of nature in Section 2. Also, it prescribes the requirements for patents in Section 29 and unpatentable inventions in Section 32. In other nations, however, there is no provision of the definition of an invention. Instead, they only establish the requirements for a patent and depend on theories or court decisions in defining" a notion of invention. While they properly adjust the scope of the patentable objects based on their own paces of technological improvements, our nation and Japan have difficulty in extending the scope rapidly adjusting to their paces because of the clear legal definition of an invention. For this reason, there are disputes among scholars on the interpretation of the above provision in extending the scope of the patentable objects. It would be, therefore, necessary to review how to interpret it, how to amend it, or whether to delete it or not.
본 학회는 지식재산 및 관련 제도(특허, 실용신안, 상표, 디자인, 영업비밀, 저작권, 반도체칩, 컴퓨터프로그램, 데이터베이스, 디지털콘텐츠 등)에 관한 국내외 이론과 실무에 대한 연구를 촉진하여 지식재산분야의 학문간 융합발전과 국제적 유대를 강화하고, 지식재산에 관한 지식을 보급하여 인적 네트워크 구축과 정책제언을 추진하며 이를 통해 국가발전에 이바지하는 것을 목적으로 한다.