半導體集積回路 配置設計의 知的財産權的 保護에 관한 硏究 = (A) Study on the protection of the intellectual property rights to the layout-designs of semiconductor integrated circuits

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Throughout the world, the semiconductor industry, as a core component industry, is a highly profitable state of the art industry for the information age of the twenty first century.
The Semiconductor Chips Protection Act(hereinafter referred to "SCPA") was recently enacted as a special statutory act of intellectual property right laws. The purpose of the SCPA was to protect exclusive rights of those who developed creative semiconductor chips through investment of their various resources by prohibiting unauthorized copying and use of such semiconductor chips.
In November 1984, SCPA was enacted as a result of the discussion on protection of layout-design rights between Korean and the United States of America governments. Issue of protection of intellectual property rights related to semiconductor chips was discussed in Treaty on Intellectual Property in Respect of Integrated Circuits and Uruguay Round and on December 8, 1992, Act on the Layout-Designs of Semiconductor Integrated Circuits (hereinafter referred to "ALDSIC") has been enacted as Act No. 4526 based on the Memorandum of Understanding executed by and between Korea and the United States of America governments.
In order that a layout-design be protected under ALDSIC, such layout-design should be registered with the relevant authoritative institutions of a country or used commercially. Statutes of various countries and important international treaties and conventions provide that creativity in a layout-design is an important requirement for the protection of such layout-design. Majority of such treaties and conventions provided for the rule of no less favorable treatment and the rule of most favored nation treatment for the protection of the layout-design rights of foreigners.
Layout-design rights arises upon registration for establishment of such layout-design rights pursuant to the relevant provision of ALDSIC and is protected as an exclusive rights to prevent infringements of such layout-design rights and grant to third parties a license to use such layout-design. ALDSIC allows infringements by infringers not having intention or negligence in relation to such infringements and copying by way of reverse engineering for the purpose of stable supply and renovation of technologies.
The holder of a layout-design right has a various remedies under civil laws and penal laws against those who infringe such layout-design right whether or not such infringement is intentional or negligent. Resolution procedure for remedies to such infringement is various under the respective domestic laws of the countries and WTO and TRIPs respectively provide for a different resolution procedure.
Hence, as the problem of protecting intellectual property rights related to semiconductor chips is not only confined to the domestic issues but is likely to expand to international disputes, Korea needs to strengthen its protection of layout design right in various aspects in order to counteract to the protective provisions of the major treaties and reduce the causes for the occurrence of compulsory license that may directly infringe on such rights in order to protect consumers. Furthermore, in order to actively counteract to the litigations on infringement of intellectual property rights, trade disputes, etc., the government should strengthen its support for legal and policy measures, and semiconductor industries shall also proactively counteract to the infringement of intellectual property rights of semiconductors by foreign entities.
In addition, the reverse engineering policy is a prominent technology transfer mechanism first codified as a policy in the area of semiconductor chip layout design and accepted among various intellectual property rights policies. As a country in the development stage in the area of non-memory semiconductor design technology, we shall utilize the reverse engineering and the government should support and encourage the reverse engineering thereby lessening the gap in semiconductor design technology with more advanced industrialized nations.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 목차
• 제1장 서론 = 1
• 제1절 연구의 배경 = 1
• 제2절 연구의 목적 및 범위 = 2
• 제2장 반도체집적회로 배치설계의 의의와 반도체 산업의 현황 = 3
• 제1절 반도체집적회로 배치설계의 의의 = 3
• Ⅰ. 반도체 = 3
• Ⅱ. 집적회로의 의의 = 5
• Ⅲ. 배치설계의 의의 = 5
• 제2절 반도체 산업의 현황 = 6
• Ⅰ. 일반현황 = 6
• Ⅱ. 세계시장 동향 = 7
• Ⅲ. 국내산업 동향 = 9
• 제3절 반도체 산업관련 주요정책 = 13
• Ⅰ. 정책방향 = 13
• Ⅱ. 메모리부문의 경쟁력 우위지속 = 13
• Ⅲ. 비메모리 부문 육성 = 14
• Ⅳ. 장비·재료의 국산화 추진 = 14
• Ⅴ. 전망 = 15
• 제3장 반도체집적회로 배치설계의 법적 보호 = 16
• 제1절 반도체칩 보호법의 등장 = 16
• Ⅰ. 배경 = 16
• Ⅱ. 입법경위 = 16
• Ⅲ. 보호 방법 = 17
• 제2절 반도체 칩의 국제적 보호 = 25
• Ⅰ. 국제조약 = 25
• Ⅱ. 각국의 국내법 = 33
• 제3절 법적 보호의 요건 = 42
• Ⅰ. 서언 = 42
• Ⅱ. 창작성 = 42
• Ⅲ. 속지성 = 48
• Ⅳ. 등록 및 고지 = 48
• Ⅴ. 고정(fixation) = 52
• 제4절 법적 보호의 형식 = 53
• Ⅰ. 개요 = 53
• Ⅱ. 법적 형식 = 53
• 제5절 보호범위 및 기간 = 56
• Ⅰ. 보호 범위 = 56
• Ⅱ. 보호기간(duration, terms of protection) = 60
• 제4장 반도체집적회로 배치설계권의 내용 = 61
• 제1절 반도체칩 배치설계권 = 61
• Ⅰ. 개념 = 61
• Ⅱ. 배치설계권자의 권리 = 61
• 제2절 권리의 제한 = 63
• Ⅰ. 아이디어/표현 이분법 = 63
• Ⅱ. 선의 침해 = 65
• Ⅲ. 리버스 엔지니어링 방어권 = 68
• Ⅳ. 권리소진의 원칙 = 87
• Ⅴ. 배치설계의 강제실시권 = 90
• 제5장 반도체집적회로 배치설계권의 침해와 법적 구제 = 96
• 제1절 침해의 의의 = 96
• Ⅰ. 의의 = 96
• Ⅱ. 침해의 유형 = 96
• 제2절 침해의 입증 = 98
• Ⅰ. 의의 = 98
• Ⅱ. 권리침해의 입증 = 98
• 제3절 침해의 구제 = 99
• Ⅰ. 미국 = 99
• Ⅱ. EC = 104
• Ⅲ. 워싱턴 조약 = 104
• Ⅳ. 우리 나라 = 104
• 제4절 침해분쟁해결 = 105
• Ⅰ. 개관 = 105
• Ⅱ. 국내법체계에 의한 해결 = 105
• Ⅲ. 국제법체계에 의한 해결 = 106
• 제6장 결론 = 109
• 【참고문헌】 = 114
• ABSTRRACT = 116