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Injunctions and Hold-up under Weak Patent Protection

  • SIM, KYOUNGBO
    • KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.1-30
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    • 2020
  • This paper analyzes how injunctions relate to patent hold-up problems. To this end, we present a simple model of licensing negotiations between a patent holder and a downstream firm in the shadow of litigation. More specifically, we consider the situation in which an injunction is granted as a matter of course if a patent is found valid and infringed upon in litigation, but the patent holder may be under-compensated due to aspects of the patent remedy system other than injunctions. We show that if the downstream user is unaware of the patent before any investment in initially designing its product, the patent hold-up problems created by injunction threats are worrisome when (i) the redesign process is costly, (ii) the degree of patent protection (by aspects of the patent remedy system other than injunctions) is sufficiently strong and (iii) the injunction is requested not to practice the patented technology exclusively but to collect excessive patent royalties. Even if the downstream user is aware of the patent before the initial investment, the patent hold-up problems do not disappear. The findings here imply that a discretionary approach is required towards denying injunctions against patent infringement. If the degree of patent protection is not sufficiently strong, denying injunctions can exacerbate the under-compensation problem. However, once patent protection improves enough (not necessarily perfectly), we may see a surge of patent hold-up problems, and it would be better to apply alternative patent remedies in place of injunctions when necessary. Lastly, we discuss several possible alternatives to injunctions and their pros and cons.

Enabling Vessel Collision-Avoidance Expert Systems to Negotiate

  • Hu, Qinyou;Shi, Chaojian;Chen, Haishan;Hu, Qiaoer
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • v.1
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    • pp.77-82
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    • 2006
  • Automatic vessel collision-avoidance systems have been studied in the fields of artificial intelligence and navigation for decades. And to facilitate automatic collision-avoidance decision-making in two-vessel-encounter situation, several expert and fuzzy expert systems have been developed. However, none of them can negotiate with each other as seafarers usually do when they intend to make a more economic overall plan of collision avoidance in the COLREGS-COST-HIGH situations where collision avoidance following the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea(COLREGS) costs too much. Automatic Identification System(AIS) makes data communication between two vessels possible, and negotiation methods can be used to optimize vessel collision avoidance. In this paper, a negotiation framework is put forward to enable vessels to negotiate to optimize collision avoidance in the COLREGS-COST-HIGH situations at open sea. A vessel vector space is defined and therewith a cost model is put forward to evaluate the cost of collision-avoidance actions. Negotiations between a give-way vessel and a stand-on vessel and between two give-way vessels are considered respectively to reach overall low cost agreements. With the framework proposed in this paper, two vessels involved in a COLREGS-COST-HIGH situation can negotiate with each other to get a more economic overall plan of collision avoidance than that suggested by the traditional collision-avoidance expert systems.

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CORBA-based Mutual Authentication Service for Subjects of Electronic Commerce (전자상거래 주체간 CORBA 기반 상호 인증 서비스)

  • Jang, Gyeong-A;Kim, Tae-Yun
    • Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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    • v.26 no.10
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    • pp.1237-1247
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    • 1999
  • 이질적 분산 환경에서 전자 상거래는 신임장을 기반으로 상거래 참여자들에 대한 인증 서비스가 제공되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 CORBA 보안 명세 1 를 기반으로 전자 상거래 참여자들에 대한 객체 단위 인증 및 권한 부여 기법을 제공하는 상호 인증 서비스 구조를 제안한다. 이 구조는 Kerberos 2 의 인증 기법 및 인증 키 교환 기법으로 전자 상거래 참여자간에 상대 주체의 신원 확인 뿐 아니라 거래 진행 중 취득한 정보의 근원을 파악할 수 있도록 하였다. 또한 Kerberos 기법을 CORBA 플랫폼 기반의 상호 인증 구조로서 분산 환경에 대해 확장하였으므로 키 관리 등 보안 정보 관리에 있어 효율적이다.Abstract Electronic commerce shall provide its subjects with a credential-based authentication service in the heterogeneous distributed computing environment. In this paper, based on CORBA security service specification 1 which OMG defined, we propose the mutual authentication service for subjects of electronic commerce, providing the authentication of object level and the authenticated key exchange. This proposed structure, by Kerberos 2 for the authentication and the authenticated key exchange, assures not only the identification of a partner but also the confidence of origin of business item for negotiations between subjects of electronic commerce. Since our deployed Kerberos is extended to the mutual authentication service based on CORBA platform, it is efficient for security administration to manage the information such as a key management in the heterogeneous distributed computing environment.

A study on the existing state of things and hereafter subject for the Strategy of Korea according as the Climate Change Convention (기후변화협약에 따른 우리나라의 대응 동향 및 향후 과제에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Kyung-Hee;Cho, Jai-Rip
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Quality Management Conference
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    • 2006.04a
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    • pp.392-399
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    • 2006
  • Since the global warming problem emerged in the international community, the problem has been sought to be not at the national but at the global level. As a result, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was agreed by international delegates in 1992, and the Kyoto Protocol which imposes industrialized nations to decrease their greenhouse gas emission was agreed by the international community in 1997. Kyoto protocol came into effect for reduction duty of greenhouse gas.(16-Feb-2005) High developed countries press environmental regulation. It will strengthen an environment regulation from advanced nation with this protocol. This study is intended to examine unfolding transition on negotiations of Conference of Parties(COP), the Kyoto Mechanism referred as a cost-effective tool to meet a targeted level of greenhouse gas decrease, and trends in responses of developed countries to the Kyoto Protocol, and finally suggests legal and politic counterplans responding to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereafter, UNFCCC).

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Research on National Cybersecurity Policy Preparing for the Reunification of North Korea and South Korea (남북통일을 대비한 국가사이버안보 정책 연구)

  • Ham, Seung-hyeon;Park, Dae-woo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2016.10a
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    • pp.358-361
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    • 2016
  • The North and South Korea for the peaceful reunification of the Republic of Korea, to lead the transformation and reform, and to complement the policy making and negotiations, there is a need for cyber security policy to practice. This paper explores the definition and overseas cyber terrorism and cyber warfare correspondence, correspondence between the versions of the technology between versions. Analysis of cyber security activities in the North and South confrontation, and research the cyber security policy against the unification. In this study, we compared the unification to build and operate a secure cyberspace from cyber threats and cyber security policy suggestions for ways of rational and legal.

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A Study on The Construction of Cloud BIM-based Medical Facility Design Support System (클라우드 BIM 기반 의료시설 설계지원 시스템 구축에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Sung-Ho;Lee, Byung-Soo;Choi, Yoon-Ki
    • Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Planning & Design
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.39-46
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    • 2019
  • In the 21st century, medical facility projects are required to operate appropriate digital technologies as the development of technology and the interests of various participants become more complex. In order for architects to successfully lead negotiations among various stakeholder groups, it is necessary to plan for effective communication through appropriate design reflecting their opinions and coordination of conflicts. For this purpose, building information modeling (BIM), which is a method of designing based on knowledge information related to medical facilities in the building database, can respond to change of order promptly and minimizes the occurrence of design errors can do. Recently, BIM technology and cloud computing technology in ICT have been combined and research on cloud BIM has been actively carried out. The use of cloud computing technology in BIM-based healthcare facility projects can effectively support decision making among project participants and has the advantage of sharing and collaborating on various forms of information generated during the design process, regardless of location and time. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to build of system that can support the design of medical facility using cloud computing technology in BIM.

The Economic Impact of Changing the Status of Korea to a Developed Country in WTO Negotiation (한국의 WTO 선진국 지위 전환에 따른 경제적 효과)

  • Song, Backhoon
    • Korea Trade Review
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    • v.44 no.5
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    • pp.29-43
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    • 2019
  • This study aims to estimate the economic effect of Korea's transition to a developed country in WTO negotiations. If Korea develops into an advanced country, it must give up many advantages in the agricultural sector. In particular, limiting the scope of sensitive items, giving up the selection of special items, and drastic tariff reductions are expected to have greater negative effects on the agricultural sector. According to research results, Korea's GDP rose slightly from 0.2 to 0.8 percent following the DDA settlement. Especially when China is classified as an advanced country along with Korea, Korea's GDP appears to be growing even more. On the other hand, damage is expected in most areas of agriculture. The trade deficit in the agriculture sector is expected to widen as output in the agricultural sector decreases, and import growth exceeds export growth. In the non-agricultural sector, there are no significant differences in the change in WTO status. However, if China is grouped together as an advanced country, the export growth rate of the Korean manufacturing industry appears greater.

A Study on the Negotiation on Management Normalization of GM Korea through the Two-Level Games (양면게임 이론으로 분석한 한국GM 경영정상화 협상연구)

  • Lee, Ji-Seok
    • Korea Trade Review
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.31-44
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    • 2019
  • This study examines the normalization of Korean GM management between the Korean government and GM in terms of external negotiation game and internal negotiation game using Putnam's Two-Level Games. In addition, GM's Win-set change and negotiation strategy were analyzed. This analysis suggested implications for the optimal negotiation strategy for mutual cooperation between multinational corporations and local governments in the global business environment. First, the negotiation strategy for Korea's normalization of GM management in Korea can be shifted to both the concession theory and the opposition theory depending on the situation change and the government policy centered on the cautious theory. Second, GM will maximize its bargaining power through 'brink-end tactics' by utilizing the fact that the labor market is stabilized, which is the biggest weakness of the Korean government, while maintaining a typical Win-set reduction strategy. GM will be able to restructure at any time in terms of global management strategy, and if the financial support of the Korean government is provided, it will maintain the local factory but withdraw the local plant at the moment of stopping the support. In negotiations on the normalization of GM management in Korea, it is necessary to prepare a problem and countermeasures for various scenarios and to maintain a balance so that the policy does not deviate to any one side.

A qualitative research on the dentists' perception of scope of practice of dental hygienists (치과의사의 인식에 중점을 둔 치과위생사의 업무 범위에 관한 질적 연구)

  • Moon, Sang-Eun;Hong, Sun-Hwa;Lee, Bo-Ram;Kim, Na-Yeon
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.685-693
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    • 2021
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify dentists' perception of work performance and scope of work of dental hygienists. Methods: A phenomenological research method was applied for the proper role performance on March 1st, 2021 and June 10th to investigation eight dentists running their own dental clinics located in Gwangju and Daejeon metropolitan city. Results: The legal scope of dental hygienists has not been properly recognized. Conflicts have been experienced due to problems between dental hygienists and staff and their differences in knowledge or proficiency in their work. The performance of dental hygienists has been evaluated based on the size of the dental clinic's profit. Reviews and improvements in dental hygienists' scope of work and new business regulations are required. Conclusions: Consequently, it is recommended that the dental business industry carry out directional discussions and negotiations to review dental hygienists' scope of practice and bring improvements so that their work can be, in the end, be stably performed within the legal system.

Topic Analysis of Foreign Policy and Economic Cooperation: A Text Mining Approach

  • Jiaen Li;Youngjun Choi
    • Journal of Korea Trade
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    • v.26 no.8
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    • pp.37-57
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    • 2022
  • Purpose -International diplomacy is key for the cohesive economic growth of countries around the world. This study aims to identify the major topics discussed and make sense of word pairs used in sentences by Chinese senior leaders during their diplomatic visits. It also compares the differences between key topics addressed during diplomatic visits to developed and developing countries. Design/methodology - We employed three methods: word frequency, co-word, and semantic network analysis. Text data are crawling state and official visit news released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China regarding diplomatic visits undertaken from 2015-2019. Findings - The results show economic and diplomatic relations most prominently during state and official visits. The discussion topics were classified according to nine centrality keywords most central to the structure and had the maximum influence in China. Moreover, the results showed that China's diplomatic issues and strategies differ between developed and developing countries. The topics mentioned in developing countries were more diverse. Originality/value - Our study proposes an effective approach to identify key topics in Chinese diplomatic talks with other countries. Moreover, it shows that discussion topics differ for developed and developing countries. The findings of this research can help researchers conduct empirical studies on diplomacy relationships and extend our method to other countries. Additionally, it can significantly help key policymakers gain insights into negotiations and establish a good diplomatic relationship with China.