디자인에서의 지식재산권 실태에 관한 연구

As we make the transition to a knowledge & information based society in this global environment, intellectual property is more important than ever before. The purpose of this study is to research about how to protect design right and execute design management to create the new culture and the advancement of the design area. In this study, theoretical and practical analyses of intellectual property rights are examined through literature reviews, yearly trends of industrial property are examined by processing intellectual property statistics and the flow of trends of design field is analyzed. The results of this study show that designs can be protected by intellectual property laws, represented as the design protection acts. Therefore, a suitable system can be chosen to protect designs in various conditions. Thus, designers should understand the legal aspects of design right laws in order to protect their intellectual property. Also developing a committee that would construct laws to assign intellectual property protection to design would be a significant step forward. This should protect creative design works, reflecting the changes in society and provide the opportunity for development in culture based creative design. It was concluded in this study that a more systematic and broader research in intellectual property rights for design is required.