4차 산업혁명에 대응한 우리 지적재산권법 관련 쟁점들의 통합적 분석

There has been arguably some problem from the phenomenon that two much interest or concern had been shown in Korea for the so-called ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution. However, the Korean society as a whole needs to prepare for the upcoming fourth industrial revolution age, because the fourth industrial revolution in which the information and communication technology (ICT) would deeply combine with manufacturing industry can be a great opportunity for Korea that has already comparative advantage in ICT. In addition, in perspective of intellectual property of Korea, some appropriate preparation is also needed. The technologies for realizing the fourth industrial revolution include AI (artificial intelligence) technology which seems to be the most important, Big Data technology which supports advancement and acceleration of artificial intelligence, cloud computing technology which functions as a physical tool of calculation process by artificial intelligence and a storage for big data, and IoT (Internet of things) that provides source of individual informations which will finally compose the big data. Meanwhile, each individual things or products such as autonomous vehicles, robots and drone, which are located directly in our daily life, are the objects of IoT technology, but at the same time, they are subject to control by the AI technology presented above. As a result in this part’s analysis of this article, it is understood that the above technologies related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution have a kind of cyclical relationship with each other. Moreover, this article analyzed the whole issues of intellectual property rights related to the fourth industrial revolution by integrated approach. First of all, it is confirmed that 3D printing technology which is founded as actually distant from the above cyclical relation could not a core part of urgent consideration. Next, this article look at some intellectual property issues related to big data technology and cloud computing technology because the proper solution of these issues ultimately guarantees the smooth development of artificial intelligence technology. And among the legal issues concerning the artificial intelligence technology itself, this article especially points out that the issue of whether legal personality or eligibility as an agency for artificial intelligence itself should be acknowledged or not is the very problem to be solved in perspective of not the intellectual property law but the entire legal system uniformly in Korea. Also, although those are not the intellectual property law issue, this article emphasizes from the author’s point of view that the issue of another preparation in area of anti-trust law and etc. and the need to mitigate seemingly excessive privacy protection in Korea are important because those are a very close related issue appropriate preparation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In addition, this article tried to clearly summarize the above analysis contents in the "conclusion" part as far as possible.