바이오헬스 산업에서 특허 라이선스 특성에 관한 연구

Abstract

The biohealth industry is directly related to human life and national health, and has important characteristics of publicity such as securing accessibility and fair distribution. Accordingly, issues such as exemption from the obligation to protect intellectual property rights, such as the COVID-19 vaccine, activation of the compulsory license system, and free sharing of biotechnology have been steadily raised. However, there are many negative opinions that technology sharing and the weakening of monopoly rights over intellectual property rights in the biohealth industry, which requires long-term mass investment, hinders incentives for technological innovation from the point of view of companies. Therefore, it is necessary to think about ways to maintain the role of motivating technological innovation while promoting fair and open licensing by analyzing the characteristics of patent licenses in the biohealth field.
 In this article, we analyzed patent licensing models and cases that are actually being carried out in the field of biohealth to derive problems and shortcomings of the current system, and searched for ways to achieve efficient technology transfer and open innovation. For this purpose, the scope of the biohealth industry is first specified, and the specificity of the biohealth industry and patent licenses in that industry is analyzed. Next, areas requiring improvement were derived through investigation and analysis of representative license models and cases in the biohealth field. Through this process, institutional and policy countermeasures were proposed to promote technological innovation along with efficient technology transfer and technology securing in the biohealth industry.