• 무역상무연구
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• 제73권
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• pp.1-20
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• 2017

There are many safeguards and measures available regulating the protection of a trademark and its registered holder, however, the protection of a licensee in a trademark license agreement is also important for protection of a intellectual property. Therefore, there are several measures in place for the protection of licensees' interests in Chinese trademark law. Article 43(3) of the Chinese Trademark Law rules a licensor who licenses others to use his registered trademark shall submit the trademark licensing to the trademark office for file, and the trademark office shall announce the trademark licensing to public. Without filing, the trademark licensing shall not be used against a bona fide third party. It means a licensee can not use an unrecorded license with the relevant trademark authority against third parties - essentially, this means that a licensee should insist on having their trademark license agreements recorded against the relevant trademark authority, so that a licensee's interests are protected as against the assignees, licensees and other types of third parties. Otherwise a third party in good faith can use the registered trademark legally against a licensee even though a trademark license agreement between a licensor and licensee is still valid.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제13권
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• pp.1013-1032
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• 2000

At present, the scale of Electronic Commerce through internet has been rapidly increasing due to the development of information & communication technology, and aggregated to 2.4 billion dollar in America last year (1998). The market scale of worldwide electronic commerce is also presumed to be about 130 billion dollar in 2000, and to occupy more than 20% of the whole world trade in world 2020. Since the right of trademark, despite of being effective only in registered nations on the principle of territorialism, is unified on the cyber space of internet without domestic barrier or local limitation which make it easier to conduct the distribution of information rapidly through the address-internet domain name, those are very important that the systematic dispute-solving plan on problems such as decision of its Act and international jurisdiction to be established, in an effort to prevent the newly emerging dispute instances such as trademark infringement and improper competitiveness. In addition, it is natural that on the threshold of the electronic commerce age which formed with an unified area without the worldwide specific regulation, each country including us makes haste with the enactment of "electronic commerce Act" aiming at coming into force in 1999, in keeping with getting through "non-tariff law on electronic commerce" by U. S. parliament on May, 1998. In view of the properties of electronic commerce transactions through internet, there are the large curtailment of distributive channel, surmounting of restrictions on transaction area, space and time and the easy feedback with consumer and the cheap-required capital, from which the problems may arise - registration of trademark, the trademark infringement of domain name and the protection of prestigious trademark. Therefore, it is necessary to take the counter-measure, with a view of reviewing the infringement of trademark and domain name and the instances of each national precedent and to preventing the disputes. The improvement of the persistent system should be needed to propel the harmonious protection of those holding trademark right's credit and demanders' expectant profit by way of the righteous use of trademark.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.53-67
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was to analyze anti-counterfeiting strategies of fashion firms in Korea. Data was collected by in-depth interviews for 25 fashion firms and 5 buying offices who had been victims of counterfeiting. The result showed that fashion firms recognized the counterfeiting, especially deceptive counterfeiting, as a serious problem in Korea and seek for stronger protection. Fashion firms adopted diverse strategies for the protection of trademark and for the protection of design； (1) Investigation and Surveillance, (2) Warning, (3) Prosecution, (4) Lawsuit, (5) Consumer education (6) High-tech tabooing, (7) Provide incentives, (8) Penalty, (9) Do nothing. Despite the diverse efforts, they proposed the most desirable strategies to deter the counterfeiting as the changes of consumer attitude and stronger legal protection.

• 한국의상디자인학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.5-21
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• 2001

The intellectual properties right are becoming very critical issues in domestic fashion industries and also international trade. Although it is true that intellectual properties rights are commonly infringed in fashion industry, none of researches has been done for this matter. The present study is to analyze the patterns of infringement by case analysis, which was limited to trademark and trade dress. As a result, in case of trademarks, counterfeiting was relatively clear case, but it is generally investigated by prosecutes whereas the judgement of similar trademark has been taken by legal lawsuit. In case of industrial design(trade dress) most of disputes were related to textile design and modified Korean tradition dress. Reflecting the short history of protection of intellectual properties rights many informations and legal regulations should be established by te government and by the association of fashion related industry.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제15권
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• pp.169-209
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• 2001

As a domain name can be registered simply by filing an application for registration, disputes over the domain name between the holder of domain name and the holder of trademark increased. Since the holder of trademark who was late for registering domain name is willing to pay for the return of domain name, cybersquatters increased. Cybersqatters are not genuine users of the Internet. This article is to compare the construction of law by American Courts and by Korean Courts and to assert the creation of the law similar to the law of US as to anti-cybersqatting. American Courts applied the Trademark Act and the Anti-Dilution Act to resolve the disputes over domain name. To apply the Trademark Act, the Court required the plaintiffs to prove that the goods or the services expressed by the domain name should be identical or similar to the goods or the services represented by the trademark. However, there were many cases where the holder of domain name used it for the goods or the services irrelevant to those of the holder of trademark. Also, the Anti-Dilution Act could not successfully protect the holder of trademark from cybersquatters because it required that the trademark should be famous or distinctive. As a result, the US promulgated a new law which is designed to prohibit cybersquatters from being free of sanction by the existing laws. Korea Courts applied the Trademark Act and the Unfair Competition Prohibition Act to the cases disputing domain name. Likewise in the US, Korean Courts must cope with the issue of identity of the goods or the services, and the famousness or distinctiveness of trademark. The Courts hesitate to give a winning judgement to the holder of trademark simply because the domain name of alleged violator confused the trademark. Some scholars advocate the broadening of construction of the Unfair Competition Prohibition Act to illegalize cybersquatting but it is beyond the meaning of the law. Accordingly, it is a time to make a law similar to the Anti-Cybersquatting Act of the US. The law must be a fair and reasonable compromise to resolve the collision between system of registration of domain name and the system of registration of trademark. Some commentators advocate that the registration of domain name should be examined just as the one of trademark and to facilitate it, the Patent and Trademark Office should have jurisdiction of registration of domain name. But it abandons the distinction of domain name and trademark and results in obstructing e-commerce. By adopting the Anti-Cybersqatting Act, we can prohibit it. In other cases, we get a reasonable adjustment between the holder of domain name and the holder of trademark through the Trademark Act and the Unfair Competition Prohibition Act.

• 식품과학과 산업
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.246-259
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• 2021

Various countries established Geographical Indication (GI) system to protect the right and traditionality of their native products. The regulations vary by country but can be divided accordingly: Protection by trademark systems such as in USA, Special Protection for Geographical Indication as in EU, Protection by both schemes as in China and Korea. Within the systems, countries provide diverse schemes such as PDO and PGI in EU depending on the scope of the product. However, GI system in Korea provides one definition which only protects products that express definite tie to its territory of origin, preliminary with the origin of the ingredient. It is necessary for the government and industry to seek ways to revitalize the local economy in the global market and increase the number of GI products by aligning GI systems with foreign countries and support mutual bilateral agreement.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.55-80
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• 2019

전 세계적으로 온라인 상거래 시장 규모가 성장함에 따라 국제 및 국내 기업의 상표권이 침해되는 사례가 빈번하게 발생하고 있다. 다양한 연구 및 보고서에 따르면, 해외 기업 또는 개인이 국내 기업의 상표권을 침해한 사례와, 국내 기업 간 발생하는 상표권 분쟁 사례가 증가하고 있는 것으로 나타나고 있으며, 특허청의 보고서에 따르면 기업의 규모가 작을수록 상표보호를 위한 사전 예방활동을 수행하지 않는다고 응답한 비율이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 문제는 선등록 상표에 대한 사전조사 또는 자사의 상표보호를 위해 소요되는 인력과 비용이 원인인 것으로 판단된다. 한편, 국내에서 선등록상표에 대한 사전조사를 위해 상용되는 서비스를 살펴보면 상표 이미지를 활용한 검색 서비스를 제공하고 있지 않은 상황이다. 이로 인해 국내 대다수의 기업은 자사의 상표 보호 및 선등록 상표에 대한 사전조사 수행 시 방대한 양의 선등록된 상표를 수작업으로 조사해야하는 문제가 발생한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 기업의 상표권 보호 및 선등록 상표에 대한 사전조사 수행 시 투입되는 인력 및 비용절감과, 국내외에서 발생하고 있는 상표권 침해 문제를 해결하기 위해 합성곱 신경망 기법을 활용한 지능형 유사 상표 검색 모델을 개발하고자 한다. 지적 재산권 전문가가 선정한 테스트 데이터를 활용하여 지능형 유사 상표 검색 모델의 정확도를 측정한 결과 ResNet V1 101의 성능이 가장 높게 나타났다. 해당 결과를 통해 이미지 분류 알고리즘이 단순한 사물 인식 분야뿐만 아니라 이미지 검색 분야에서도 높은 성능을 나타낸다는 것을 실증적으로 입증했으며, 본 연구는 실제 상표 이미지 데이터를 활용했다는 측면에서 실제 산업 환경에서 활용성이 높을 것으로 사료된다.

• 복식
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.125-139
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• 2004

The present study was to analyze the trend of registration of design rights in apparel products and tc point out problems of current protection law to design. The research data was total 1,850 design rights in apparel that have been registered to the Korean Patent and Trademark Office from the first design registered in March 1, 1963 through those registered in April 24, 2003. All design rights were analyzed by the year, by the type of product, and by the type of applicant. And also design rights registered under the revised design registration system(without examination) were analyzed by the trait. The results of the study were as follows: (1) Sweater & polo shirts, underpants, and the Korean traditional dress were three major single categories registered in apparel : (2) 54.3% of total design rights in apparel was registered since the legal system of design rights has been revised in March 1, 1998 : (3) Registration by individual applicant were 71.7% of total; (4) About 60% of total design rights were for aesthetic, but in some categories such as vest. brassiere, undershirts, designs for function were more frequently registered than others. And total 68 design rights for the symbol of the organization or uniform, were registered in upper outerwear and pants : (5) As problems of the current legal protection system for designs, the term of “design”(expressed in Korean), double registration of similar designs, malicious intention to register other's trademark as his/her own design. The current legal system for design rights were more used for the product that has relatively long life cycle. And the revised law has been effective in encouraging the registration of design rights. However. the current design law still has some problems to be revised to prevent design rights or trademark infringement.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제24권10호
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• pp.225-232
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• 2019

2001.2.3.자 부정경쟁방지법의 개정으로 신설된 제2조 제1호 (다)목에서는 부정경쟁행위의 한 종류로서 저명상표 희석행위에 대해 정의하고 이를 규제하고 있다. 저명상표는 세계 각국에서 보편적으로 보호되고 있는데 우리나라도 이와 같은 국제적인 조류에 맞추어 부정경쟁방지법에서 저명상표를 보호하고 있다. 저명상표 희석범죄가 성립하기 위해서는 (1)표지의 저명성 (2)표장의 동일 유사 (3)식별력 약화 또는 명성 손상을 요건으로 하는데, 특히 저명상표 희석범죄의 구성요건적 결과인 '식별력 약화 또는 명성손상'의 입증정도와 관련하여 저명상표 희석범죄는 침해범이나 추상적 위험범이 아닌 구체적 위험범이라고 해석함이 타당한 바, 식별력 약화 또는 명성 손상의 구체적 현실적 위험이 발생하면 본 죄가 성립하는 것으로 보아야 한다. 나아가 '식별력 약화 또는 명성 손상'의 구체적 판단 기준과 관련하여, 일반 대중의 사회 심리적 관점뿐만 아니라 구체적 사안에서의 개별 행위태양의 반(反) 가치정도를 규범적 요소로서 고려하여 종합적으로 판단함이 상당하다.

• 법제연구
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• 제44호
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• pp.185-209
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• 2013

현재 패션디자인을 보호하는 디자인보호법과 저작권법은 패션디자인 보호를 위해서 적절한 방법을 제공하지 못하고 있다. 이에 대하여 상표권 보호에 대한 접근론이 제시되고 있는바, 상표권에 관한 최근 두 개의 사건, Levi 사건 및 Louboutin 사건은 패션 업계에서 상표권의 인정 및 적용에 있어 시사하는 바가 크다. 리바이스 v. 에버크롬비 소송에서 법원은 어떤 상표 표시가 선사용 상표와 현저히 다른 경우에도 상표가치희석이 발생한다고 판단했는바. 이는 기존의 유명상표 디자이너에게는 유리하게, 반대로 신진디자이너에게는 큰 걸림돌로 작용할 것이며, 궁극적으로 디자이너들의 창의성, 경쟁, 소비자 보호를 해하는 결과로 이어질 것이다. 반면, 최근 루부탱 v. 입생로랑의 상표권 침해 소송에서 패션 업계에서 상표권 인정에 관하여, 연방법상 상표등록이 다른 디자이너들의 창작활동을 부당하게 방해한다면서 그 유효성에 대한 문제를 제기하였다. 그리고 패션 산업에서 디자이너들간의 경쟁의 자유를 덜 침해하는 취지의 판결을 내렸는데 이는 패션 디자이너뿐만 아니라 소비자 모두에게 유리한 환경을 조성하는 기초가 될 것이다. 아울러, 미국의 디지털 밀레니엄 저작권법 (Digital Millennium Copyright Act : DMCA)이 인터넷에서 발생하는 저작권 침해에 대한 청구와 방어에 대하여 "고지와 삭제 (notice and takedown system : NTS)"을 통하여 제공하는 균일한 비송상 해결책을 제공하지만, 상표권 침해에 대해서 온라인 매개자가 침해의 고지에 대하여 특정단계를 따르도록 하고 동시에 피난처 (safe harbor)를 제공하자는 선진적인 제안도 온라인을 통하여 더욱 패션산업을 양적으로 확대시키고자 하는 우리나라의 입장에서도 발전적으로 도입할 여지가 있을 것이다.