지적재산법과 소비자 보호

Intellectual Property and Consumer Protection

This paper studies on consumer related aspects of the Intellectual Property. Among intellectual property laws the trade mark law and unfair competition law, even though our law have some insufficiency to protect the consumer, are the consumer protection law in broad sense. On the contrary patent law and copyright law is not a consumer protection law. But consumer are a good deal influenced by the content and the enforcement of these laws. Especially copyright law directly influence the consumer in the era of digital and information society. So intellectual property law should be educated to the consumer and consumer organization keep watch on the intellectual property law not to impair the consumer interest. Moreover the consumer organization propose actively the enactment or revision of intellectual property law to protect the consumer.