기술유출방지를 위한 「특허출원공개제도」에 관한 고찰

As a result of the technology hegemonic war between the United States and China, the Global Value Chain has been reorganized, with each country enacting and revising various laws to protect their key technologies. Countries all over the world have implemented and are operating an application disclosure system in the Patent Act that provides exceptions to related technologies to treat patented inventions as confidential without public disclosure in the case of 'inventions necessary for national security or national defense.' The Korean Patent Act contains exceptions as well, but it can only be treated as a secret patent when it is necessary for national defense. As a result, it is difficult to apply in emergency status other than those required for national defense, such as wartime, or in situations that endanger national safety. In addition to the Patent Act, Korea has enacted and is operating the Act On Prevention Of Divulgence And Protection Of Industrial Technology, the Defense Technology Security Act, and the Foreign Trade Act separately, but there are parts that are not linked to one another other. To better understand these issues, the application disclosure and its exception system under the Patent Act were examined, and whether technology leakage could be prevented by the exception provision (Article 41 of the Patent Act) was compared and reviewed with other related laws. As an alternative, this study proposed mandating domestic applications as first applications prior to filing an overseas patent application and broadening the scope of application disclosure.