특허법원이 개원되면서 사실심 재판을 시작하게 되자 새로운 법률문제가 등장하게 되는데, 이 문제는 당시 잠시 불거진 후 아직까지도 명확하게 해결되지 못한 듯하다. 본고는 미해결된 사항을 세 가지로 구분하여 다루었다. 첫째, 특허법에는 특허법원의 소송은 특허심판원이 내린 심결만을 대상으로 하도록 규정하고 있는데, 특허법원에서의 제1심이 실질적으로는 항소심 역할을 하고 있으므로 이 항소심적 성격을 특허심판과의 관계에서 심급적 연계의 인정 또는 불인정에 대하여 어떻게 해결하는 가이다. 불인정의 경우에는 제1심으로서 사실판단, 특허심판에서 주장하지 않았던 당사자가 새로운 주장･입증을 할 때 이에 관한 학설을 검토하였다. 반대로 인정할 경우에는 특허법원이 특허심판의 준사법적 기능을 중시하고 사실상의 제1심을 인정하여 심판절차에서 위법성만을 심리대상으로 한다면 항소심적 성격을 어떻게 볼 것인가를 고찰한다. 둘째, 특허심결취소소송의 성격을 고찰하고, 소송을 심리할 때의 기본이 되는 원칙과 소송물을 확정함으로써 그 소송물을 일반 행정소송처럼 원처분으로 볼 것인가 아니면 재결로 볼 것인가를 놓고, 필자는 재결이 옳다고 그 논거를 제시하였다. 그러나 과연 이러한 구별의 실익이 우리에게 주는 것은 무엇일까? 라는 질문을 스스로 하여 본다. 마지막으로 국민의 권리구제에 만전을 기하기 위하여 현재의 특허심결취소소송의 문제점과 이에 대한 개선방향 및 특허법원의 전속관할확장을 제시한다.

As trial judge commenced due to establishment of patent court, a new legal matter arose which until now seems not been resolved clearly. These matters are classified into three different categorizes in this lecture. First, according to patent laws, it is stipulated that only judgement by intellectual property tribunal is admitted in patent litigation. Because trial court actually functions similar to appeal case trial, the problem is how to resolve the matter of whether or not to recognize the characteristics of appeal case trial in connection with patent judgement. In case of not recognizing, I regarded it as a trial court and studied related theories which dealt with cases when a party claims or asserts whole new different matters from the patent litigation. On the other hand, in case of recognizing, we will consider about how to regard the characteristic of appeal case trial if patent court only follows quasi-judicial functions of patent litigation and only deals with illegalities during the process of litigation. Second, after securing principles and object of lawsuit, which come as basics when considering litigation for cancellation of a trial decision and examining trial, I encountered with a question of regarding the object of lawsuit as based on the original judicial measure or judgement. As a result, I came up with a conclusion that regarding the object of lawsuit as based on judgement is proper and provided with logical data. But I ask myself “what do we gain from classifying the viewpoint of lawsuit object?”. Finally, in the interest of protecting people's rights, I provided with current problems of litigation for cancellation of a trial decision and means to solve them.

As trial judge commenced due to establishment of patent court, a new legal matter arose which until now seems not been resolved clearly. These matters are classified into three different categorizes in this lecture. First, according to patent laws, it is stipulated that only judgement by intellectual property tribunal is admitted in patent litigation. Because trial court actually functions similar to appeal case trial, the problem is how to resolve the matter of whether or not to recognize the characteristics of appeal case trial in connection with patent judgement. In case of not recognizing, I regarded it as a trial court and studied related theories which dealt with cases when a party claims or asserts whole new different matters from the patent litigation. On the other hand, in case of recognizing, we will consider about how to regard the characteristic of appeal case trial if patent court only follows quasi-judicial functions of patent litigation and only deals with illegalities during the process of litigation. Second, after securing principles and object of lawsuit, which come as basics when considering litigation for cancellation of a trial decision and examining trial, I encountered with a question of regarding the object of lawsuit as based on the original judicial measure or judgement. As a result, I came up with a conclusion that regarding the object of lawsuit as based on judgement is proper and provided with logical data. But I ask myself “what do we gain from classifying the viewpoint of lawsuit object?”. Finally, in the interest of protecting people's rights, I provided with current problems of litigation for cancellation of a trial decision and means to solve them.

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