日本의 영업비밀보호 강화에 따른 韓·日간기술경쟁 변화와 영향

On April 2014, Japan released a “Trade Secret Task Force Report”. Regarding this, Japan Patent Attorneys Association had various opinion. In addition, the contents of this report was reflected in the Intellectual Property Strategic Program 2014 and the 2014 revision of Japan Revitalization Strategy. It contains national strategies for the prevention of technology leakage and the protection of trade secret; for civil-national organization partnership; and for business correspondence etc. In Korea, the proprietary plan of national intellectual property 2014 has taken measures to protect trade secrets and to prevent technology leakage. Japan concerns japanese technicians’outflow, and at the same time Japan also has tried to technology outflow throughout M&A. However, what matters is Korea still needs Japanese technology. In Korea, we need to take a complementary 「win-win strategy」. For example, with having innovative ideas, we could deploy global business with Japanese companies which has cutting-edge technology. Additionally, in Korea, there are enormous laws for the prevention of technology leakage and the protection of trade secret. Therefore, the role of the control tower which coordinates policies for the trade secret protection and revised related laws has to be strengthen.