“Patent Troll”은 2000년대 초반 미국의 닷컴(dot-com) 기업의 몰락, 특허중시(pro-patent)정책, 소프트웨어 등 첨단산업기술의 발전과 관련 발명에 대한 특허출원의 급증 및 불완전한 특허심사제도 등을 배경으로 등장하였고, 미국과는 기술발전 속도, 특허제도 및 발명자의 보호에 있어 차이가 있는 우리나라에서도 그러한 현상의 발생가능성에 대한 우려가 높아지고 있다. “Patent Troll”은 그 개념에 포함되어야 할 행위 또는 행위자의 범위가 불명확하고, 원래 특허법에 정해진 권리를 행사하는 것이라는 점에서 그 규제 여부에 관하여 논란이 있으나, Patent Troll의 행위로 인하여 혁신의 촉진 등 특허제도의 목적 달성에 장애를 초래하는 행위유형이 존재할 수 있다는 점에서 이에 대한 대응방법을 마련할 필요가 있다. 그러한 대응방법의 하나로서 미국에서는 특허권 남용(Patent Misuse)의 법리가 들어지나 그러한 법리가 발전되지 않은 우리나라에서는 민법상의 권리남용의 법리를 적용할 수 있을 것이고, 특히 특허권자의 특허권침해금지청구에 대하여 권리남용의 법리를 적용함에 있어서는 금지명령으로 인하여 받을 침해자측의 불이익, 특허의 무효가능성, 특허권자의 특허발명 실시여부, 특허권의 행사로 인하여 일반 공중이 입게 될 불이익 등을 고려하여 판단해야 할 것이다. 또한 Patent Troll에 의한 특허권 침해로 인한 손해배상액을 산정함에 있어서는 특허권자가 스스로 발명을 실시하지 않는 점 및 특허가 침해품의 수요에 기여하는 비율 등을 참작하여야 할 것이다. 나아가 Patent Troll의 발생을 억지하기 위해서는 영업방법발명 등 새로운 유형의 발명에 대응할 수 있는 구체적인 특허심사기준을 마련하고 심사관의 역량을 강화하며, 특허침해 여부의 판단의 전제가 되는 청구범위의 해석과 관련하여 균등의 범위를 적정하게 설정하고, 패소한 당사자에 대하여 실질적으로 소요된 비용을 기초로 소송비용을 부담하게 하며, 심결취소소송과 침해소송의 관할이 분리되어 있는 현재의 이원적 소송구조는 Patent Troll에 의하여 악용될 소지가 있고 비효율적이므로 특허소송의 관할을 통합하여야 할 것이다.

The legal regulation about the derivative(or secondary) liability of OSP(Online Service Provider) is briefly divided into two parts, liability requirement and liability limitation requirement. In the OSPs’liability requirement portion, Korean courts in Sori-Bada cases has pointed out that joint tort-feasors rule in the clause (3) of article 760 of the Korean Civil Act should be the statutory ground for OSPs liability requirement. Korea Copyright Act has also the article 104 which is a peculiar and even weird provision. It imposes the duty to implement a specific technology measure upon a so-called specific type of ISPs and therefore the article can be another statutory ground for OSPs liability requirement. Moreover, when interpreting the article 104 in the preliminary injunction cases related to Sori-Bada version 5, the Seoul High Court concluded that P2P service providers should adopt so-called the positive filtering system. At first, it seems to be more reasonable to rescind article 104 in future amendments of the Act. It’s because the scope of article 104 is so ambiguous that it may be improperly expanded to almost all OSPs and the article 104 creates unnecessary anti-market manipulation by government. Second, the Seoul High Court’s position is unreasonable. It’s because the liability limitation clauses of Korean Copyright Act are basically based on negative filtering principle, and so-called the positive filtering system is not consistent with Korea-US Free Trade Agreement and the development of filtering technology is not perfect enough to enforce the adoption of the technology. Turning to the OSPs’liability limitation requirement, article 102 and 103 of Korean Copyright Act sets up a liability limitation requirement similar to the Notice and Takedown procedure in the DMCA. It would be appropriate to amend the act in following 2 ways. At first, the Korean Copyright Act had better implement the specific requirement according to the type of information technology, such as caching, hosting, search engine, etc. even though the present act has only a uniform immunity requirement for all type of OSP. Second, the effect related to OSP’s immunity is now no more than discretional mitigation or exemption and should be changed to mandatory exemption. The legal regulation about online service user’s direct liability includes two main issues; Users’ fair use right and the criminal penalty for direct infringement. At first, the statutory and more comprehensive provision of fair use for individual users should be added into Korean Copyright Act, to keep the balance between copyright owner’s protection and the others’ fair use right. Second, the criminal penalty for users’ copyright infringement should be restrained from the rampant misuse which even caused one Korean teenager’s suicide. The new proposal in 2008 by government to amend the present Copyright Act seems to be inappropriate because it is only based on excessive administrative opportunism which would result in excessive restriction on OSPs and severe legal vagueness. Rather, it would be better for the legislature to promote the cooperation between thecopyright owners and OSPs. As anexample, the system similar to the subpoena in DMCA can be establishedin Korean Copyright Act if it will be carefully managed by Korean judicial branch.

최근 사회 전반에 걸쳐 인터넷 포털 사이트의 명예훼손 책임에 대한 논의가 주요 이슈로 등장하고 있다. 주로 문제되는 것은 포털 사이트의 뉴스게재와 게시물 방치로 인한 불법행위 책임의 성립여부이다. 이러한 논의는 인터넷 포털 사이트가 과연 언론에 해당하는지 여부에 대한 논의와도 깊은 연관성을 가지고 있다. 본고에서는 인터넷 포털 사이트의 명예훼손 책임에 대한 미국과 일본의 입법 및 판례이론을 살펴보고, 이를 통해 포털 사이트의 책임범위 확정과 관련하여 각국에서 제시하고 있는 면책기준들을 검토한다. 이어서 포털 사이트의 명예훼손 책임과 관련된 국내의 법령들을 간략히 살펴본 후, 우리나라 판례의 태도를 심층적으로 검토한다. 먼저 인터넷 사이트 게시판을 통한 명예훼손과 관련된 과거 대법원의 판결들을 검토한 후, 포탈 사이트의 명예훼손 책임을 정면으로 다룬 이른바「억울하게 죽은 내 딸」사건(서울고등법원 2008. 7. 2. 선고 2007나60990 판결) 을 중심으로 국내 판례에서 제시하고 있는 포털 사이트의 명예훼손 책임 기준을 검토한다. 아울러 위「억울하게 죽은 내 딸」사건에서 촉발된 법리적 논쟁들에 대한 개별적인 검토를 끝으로 본고를 마무리 한다.

UN해양법협약에 따르면 연안국을 자국의 법령을 위반했다고 믿을 만한 충분한 이유가 있는 경우 외국선박을 공해상에까지 추적하여 나포할 수 있는 추적권을 행사할 수 있다. 추적권은 공해상의 선박에 대해서는 기국이 관할권을 갖는다는 기국주의 원칙에 대한 중요한 예외의 하나이다. 본 논문은 국제관습법에 의해 형성되었고, UN해양법협약에 의해 인정되고 있는 해상에서의 추적권 행사시 무력사용의 한계에 관하여 사이가호 및 불심선 사건을 중심으로 고찰하였다. 추적권 행사시 가능한 한 무력의 사용은 회피되어야 할 것이며, 무력의 사용을 회피할 수 없다면 그 상황에서 합리적이고 필요한 정도를 초과해서는 안 될 것이다.

Volatile organic compounds and malodors emitted from painting operations are of primary concern in the automotive industry and pressured to be abated by newly amended VOC rule and offensive odor law in Korea. Over-sprayed paints in painting booths are delivered into water surface by downward stream of clean air and collected in water circulating pools. The circulating water mixed with waste paints generated from paint booths put out floating sludge by addition of chemical killing agent and floating agent and the odors evolved from this procedure has been under the circumstance that it must be validated to match the new rules. The activated sludge method that the circulating water pond would be considered as a huge bioreactor was applied to this over-sprayed sludge tank. and we got some remarkable reductions of sludge, odours, VOCs and dirts on air dusts. Herein, some abbreviated results will be reported.

The density characteristics of aldehydes in Kumi electronic Industrial Complex are measured in the summer and autumn in this study. Considering the characteristics of Kumi, five representative monitoring sites in Kumi are selected. According to fair Korean odor method, samples are collected and analyzed from July 26th, 2005 to October, 10th. Investigation objects include formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, propionaldehyde, butyraldehyde, iso-valeraldehyde, n-valeraldehyde. 40 samples in summer and 45 samples in autumn are measured and analyzed, respectively. The results show that the mean concentrations in residential area and industrial area are both obey the below sequence: acetaldehyde＞formaldehyde＞propionaldehyde＞butyraldehyde＞iso-valeraldehyde＞n-valeraldehyde. For acetaldehyde, its monitored concentration in industrial areas and residential areas close to industrial areas is higher than other areas. However, for formaldehyde, its concentration in the residential area 3 in tends to be higher than that in industrial areas. Based on seasons, concentrations in summer with long sunshine duration are higher than those in autumn. It can be seen that the density distribution of aldehyde in Kumi industrial complexes is closely related with the widely use of alcohol-type additives for automobiles and alcohol-type fuels. Meanwhile, most of the researches on aldehyde concentrate on capital areas or petrochemical industrial areas, taking the chance of odor prevention and control law implementing, the management scheme and reduction strategies on aldehyde ought to be carried out, which are also suitable to the enterprise characteristics in other industrial areas of this study.

In this study, we attempted to analyze removal efficiency of odorous compounds emitted from Grit chamber and night soil treatment facility using biofilter with microbial catalyst. Air dilution method was used for mixed odor gases analysis. UV-vis spectrophotometer for ammonia and Hydrogen sulfide, Methyl mercaptan, Dimethyl sulfide, Dimethyl disulfide were measured using GC/PFPD. Sample gases were collected at the inlet and outlet of biofilter. The analysis result showed that average concentration of major odorous compounds were ammonia with 5,100 ppb and hydrogen sulfide with 797 ppb from grit chamber and ammonia with 1,407 ppb and hydrogen sulfide with 2,475 ppb from night soil treatment facility. Hydrogen sulfide was the most influential compound of malodor based on odor quotient index. The average dilution threshold of odor was 923 at grit-chamber and 1,267 at night soil treatment facility. The removal efficiency of odorous compounds from sewage treatment facility were more than 94% using polyurethane foam biofilter within empty bed contact time 3sec. The emitted concentration to the atmosphere was satisfied with the criterion of the offensive odor control law.

형사사법제도란 일종의 전문화된 국가사법기관의 제도로써 형사소송상의 임무를 맡고 있는 조직과 기능에 관한 제도를 의미한다. 어느 국가를 막론하고 범죄문제가 날로 증가추세에 있는 상황에서 범죄의 예방과 그 척결은 형사사법제도의 사회적 역할과 그 기능의 효과성여부에 달려있다고 볼 수 있을 것이다. 역사적으로나 문화적으로나 정치사회적 환경이 유사한 한국과 중국의 형사사법제도를 비교분석하여 보는 것은 향후 양국의 형사사법제도의 발전방향을 모색하는데 큰 의의가 있다고 하겠다. 대표적인 형사사법기관인 경찰검찰법원교정기관을 중심으로 한 한중 양국가의 형사사법제도의 특징은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 중국의 경찰에 해당하는 공안부는 한국의 일부 법무부의 기능까지도 포함한 막강한 권력기관이라는 사실이며 둘째, 중국의 검찰조직은 한국처럼 법무부 산하조직이 아니라 헌법상의 독립적인 기관이나 한국의 검찰처럼 수사권을 독점하고 있는 명실상부한 권력을 행사하는 기관은 아니라는 것이다. 셋째, 법원제도는 중국은 2심종심제이며, 한국과는 달리 중대한 재판인 경우에는 재판위원회에서 특정사건의 처리를 토론하고 결정한다는 것이다. 넷째, 교정제도의 경우에는 중국은 기결수만을 교정당국에서 관리하고 있고 미결수는 공안당국에서 관리하며, 의료처우나 재소자 수용밀도가 한국보다는 훨씬 양호하다는 점을 그 특색으로 열거할 수 있다. 한중 양국가의 형사사법제도를 비교분석한 결과 양국은 우선적으로 제도의 운영에 있어서 국민참여제도의 활성화가 중요한 과제라는 것이다.

This article explores “the Japanese advantage”in the enforcement of ex ante contract commitments in comparison with the United States, arguing that ostensible convergence of Japanese and United States contract practice in on—going business relationships is based on very different assumptions and conditions. Writing in the early 1960s Takeyoshi Kawashima in Japan and Stewart Macaulay in the United States described prevailing views and practices related to business agreements. Their respective observations indicated a tendency in both countries to avoid formal, legally enforceable contacts. For over four decades scholars on both sides of the Pacific have tended view these observations as grounds for arguing for a convergence of contract practice. Recent research efforts have attempted to verify empirically such convergence. On closer examination, however, the conclusions reached by Kawashima and Macaulay rest on very different assumptions. For Kawashima the avoidance of formal contact appears to be based on a desire to avoid the enforcement of ex ante commitments by those who perceive that their bargaining leverage will remain intact throughout an on—going business relationship, thus enabling them to adjust unilaterally to changing circumstances. Similarly enforceable ex ante contractual commitments may also be viewed as less advantageous to those who may have the disadvantage in bargaining leverage at the time of the contracting to the extent that they perceive that they may gain greater ex post leverage. Macaulay, on the other hand emphasized the transactions costs of formal contracting and uncertainty of enforcement that reduced the efficacy of ex ante commitments. This article explores the predicates for both positions. It concludes that with respect to the concerns raised by Macaulay, Japan has a comparative advantage. Because of the organization and values of Japanese judges as well as the legal rules related to both excused non—performance as a result of changing circumstances, the legal rules favor greater certainty in the enforcement of ex ante commitments thereby supporting Kawashima’s foundational observations. Similarly, the greater uncertainty of enforcement as well as the flexibility of the legal rules on impracticability as well as contract termination in the United States justifies Macaulay’s conclusions. Japan’s loss of advantage in terms of effective formal enforcement of contract rights, it is argued, is counter—balanced by the strength of supportive mechanisms of private ordering.

From 1997 to 2007, in order to fight for its so-called “international room,”Taiwan continuously endeavored to try and squeeze into the Word Health Organization (Hereinafter referred to as the “WHO”). However, the outcome has always been disappointing for Taiwan due to the diplomatic endeavor of the People’s Republic of China. In 2007, the fight especially attracted the world’s attention because Taiwan bid for membership to the WHO instead of observer status for which it had previously been bidding. In fact, Taiwan’s request for WHO membership had a big impression on the world and the reason why Taiwan has had a great interest in the WHO is not to engage in meaningful participation within the WHO, as propagandized by Taiwanese authorities, but to eventually acquire recognition as an independent state.1 Although Taiwan has failed to achieve its goals for 11 years, accession to membership of the WHO has been, and still will be, a political goal pursued by Taiwanese authorities. The question is whether this goal can be backed from a legal perspective. It is submitted that the answer is“ No.”

China’s copyright regime, which American businesses have repeatedly complained is not sufficiently enforced, could be successfully encouraged through a cultural policy, as an alternative to a trade policy. Through a cultural perspective, the concept of copyright might not be as remote to China’s populace as was once believed, as people can no longer blame the influence of Confucianism or suppression of private property rights. This article explores the cultural policies of the United States and China to discover a way by which a copyright system can be inherently Chinese in nature, and therefore, more likely to be enforced.

The conditionality of human rights is a very provoking issue in international economic relations. It should be applied under the guidelines of legitimacy, legality, credibility, and proportionality. The EU is enthusiastic about human rights conditionality. However, it is hard to say that the EU’s program of human rights conditionality has worked well in practice. Some main multilateral economic institutions, which had been criticized for disregarding human rights concerns, have remained shy to human rights conditionality. As an increasingly emerging economic giant, China will be expected to have some sort of obligation to better respect, better protect and better promote international human rights. China can accept human rights conditionality in a moderate way.

The 1907 Hague Conference was the single ever global summit before WW I to critically evaluate the interaction of the worlds of law and diplomacy. Pivotal to its debate was the Russo-Japanese War which suggested no less than eleven out of its thirteen Conventions. The crystallization of fifty years of Western interference in the Far East, the war heralded the end of an Era, sealing the fate of the legendary Chinese and Korean empires and putting Japan on its course to imperialism. This paper recapitulates the historical options available to China, Korea and Japan, reviews causes and consequences of their separate stands, and evaluates their critical relevance to the Hague debate.