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This article relates to comparative study of co-ownership of patent right and matters to be attended to. With progress of high technology, companies which claim to stand for selection and concentration are increasing rapidly. With stressing the necessity of cooperation between university and industry, co-ownership of patent rights resulted from co-researches are also increasing. However, as to the patent law related with co-ownership of patent right, it has not been changed a lot regardless of big change in industrial environment since 1961 when the Korean patent law set the provisions of co-ownership of patent right for the first time. As to interpretation of the related clauses, it is thought not many studies has been done. It is checked on this article whether the clauses related with co-ownership of patent right in current patent law are correspond with the purpose of patent law which is seeking to encourage, protect and utilize inventions, thereby improving and developing technology, and to contribute to the development of industry.