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Generative artificial intelligence is evolving from a content-production tool into an agentic system capable of decomposing goals, developing technical solutions, working through complex formulas, writing and testing software, designing product prototypes, coordinating external services, and maintaining projects over time. In software development, digital product design, content organization, and parts of online operations, agentic AI can enable one person to perform functions previously distributed across a small firm. Yet physical manufacturing, market transactions, payment, registration, professional licensing, and legal responsibility still depend on human or organizational actors. This change is especially consequential for minors. Agentic workflows expand what they can innovate and organize in practice, but do not automatically enlarge their legal capacity to contract, dispose of long-term rights, or absorb product, data, financial, and tort risks. Technology can therefore increase practical capacity without supplying transactional authority or relocating legal responsibility. This article argues that conventional approaches are incomplete because they treat minors either as passive recipients of online protection or as ordinary adult users whose age merely limits contracting. It develops a dual-status account of the minor as both a protected person and a rights-bearing innovator. The analysis is organized around three questions: initial ownership, authority to dispose of rights, and insulation from liabilities arising during commercialization. Age should not defeat initial ownership; human contribution should be established through process evidence rather than inferred from the use or non-use of AI; and authority to license or transfer rights should depend on the transaction’s reversibility, duration, value, and external risk. Commercial responsibility should be allocated under the applicable cause of action, with particular attention to actors who control the relevant activity, benefit from it, and can prevent the harm. The best-interests principle should therefore operate not as a generalized prohibition, but as a basis for reliable ownership, supported decision-making, protection of ongoing revenue, and insulation from disproportionate liability.

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Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. From Content Generation to Organizational Extension
1. Agentic AI as an extension of individual organizational capacity
2. Continuous participation changes the formation of technological results
3. The composite role of minors in agentic collaborative innovation
4. The limits of the protected-subject paradigm
Ⅲ. Three Core Problems: Ownership, Disposition, and Liability
1. Why the three problems must be separated
2. Existing rules, analogical cases, and institutional friction
3. Initial ownership is not equivalent to authority to dispose
4. Human contribution and proof
5. Contracting capacity and supported choice
Ⅳ. Comparative Law: From Harm Prevention to Rights-Oriented Design
1. The international structure of protection, participation, and development
2. The European Union and the United Kingdom
3. The United States: human authorship and indirect lessons for minor innovation
Ⅴ. A Layered Theory of Capacity, Rights, and Responsibility
1. The minor as both protected person and rights-bearing innovator
2. Practical capacity, transactional capacity, and legal responsibility
3. First stage: contribution attribution
4. Second stage: capacity-sensitive transaction classification
5. Third stage: distributed responsibility in commercialization
Ⅵ. Institutional Design for Ownership, Disposition, and Liability
1. An age-neutral rule of initial ownership
2. Tiered assent, consent, and independent review
3. Lifecycle maintenance and insulation from disproportionate liability
4. Applications and limits of the three-part model
Ⅶ. Limits and Counterarguments
Ⅷ. Conclusion
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• Zihan He [ 허쯔한 | The High School Affiliated to Minzu University of China ] First Author
• Heonhui Lee [ 이헌희 | Associate Professor/Ph.D. in Law, Department of Intellectual Property Convergence, Graduate School, Gyeongsang National University ] Corresponding Author

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• 간행물명

  산업재산권 [Journal of Industrial Property]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-6055

• eISSN

  2733-9483

• 수록기간

  1995~2026

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  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 367 DDC 346