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The patent is the right for a inventor on protecting his idea absolutely. However, medical (neo-)treatment has been troublesome in the world(esp. in Korea) lately. Generally, man is said that medical treatment is related with human being lift or medical treatment is not related with little necessity of incentive in patent law system. So he grants that medical treatment should never be allowed to patent(right). Even though that is said above, medical treatment is inclined to be granted. For example, that is a invention of contraception's way with taking a little medicine, of hair multiplication etc. One of the same things, the medical deed(treatment) or (neo-)technology medical treatment is a representative. Allowing or not the medical treatment must be thought of the benefit and the opposite on human being. In present, the patent right on a invention has not been allowed to medical treatment invention in Korea. On the contrary, the patent right on a invention has allowed to medical treatment in the EU or United States of America. In Korean Patent Law(§29), a medical treatment invention has regulated no the (domestic) industrial utilization possibility. This regulation is different much than the foreign nations' one. That is, EU(EPC) and U.S.A(Patent Law) etc. on advanced foreign nations patent law system, medical treatment is allowed patent possibility. Because the nations have allowed the industrial utilization possibility on a invention, but restricting within a non-patent reason. On the respect of that, Korean Patent Law(K.P.L is the same below) cannot help being irrational one. In particular, if the article in the Law is codified as the present, the important issue can be said below. (1) The one is the invention of industrial utilization possibility as a patent requirement on the K.P.L §29. The question is the thing that medical treatment is not recognized at the invention of industrial utilization possibility on the K.P.L. (2) The other is the invention not to be recognized as a patent requirement on K.P.L §32. This article had better regulate that medical treatment is a invention of patent right on balancing with advanced nations such as EU or United States of America. After all, I think that the K.P.L should be recognized a medical treatment at industrial utilization possibility invention, and also amended medical treatment as the invention to be recognized at a patent requirement.