CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1(Purpose) #
The purpose of this Act is to strengthen the capability of small and medium enterprises to protect technologies and their technical competitiveness, by expanding infrastructure to protect technologies of small and medium enterprises and by formulating and implementing policies related thereto, thereby contributing to the development of the national economy.
Article 2(Definitions) #
The terms used in this Act are defined as follows: <Amended on Jun. 12, 2018; Oct. 20, 2020>
1. The term "small and medium enterprises" means the small and medium business referred to in Article 2 of the Framework Act on Small and Medium Enterprises;
2. The term "technologies of small and medium enterprises" means the technologies or management information having independent economic value necessary for developing, producing, disseminating, and using the products or services produced or to be produced by small and medium entrepreneurs defined in subparagraph 2 of Article 2 of the Act on the Promotion of Technology Innovation of Small and Medium Enterprises (hereinafter referred to as "small and medium entrepreneurs");
3. The term "act of infringement of technologies of small and medium enterprises" means any of the following acts:
(a) Improperly acquiring, using, or disclosing (including providing information to a specific person in secret; hereinafter the same shall apply) technologies of small and medium enterprises which are not known publicly and are kept confidential (hereinafter referred to as "technologies of small and medium enterprises subject to infringement");
(b) Acquiring, using, or disclosing technologies of small and medium enterprises subject to infringement, knowing the involvement of any act prescribed in item (a);
(c) Acquiring, using, or disclosing technologies of small and medium enterprises subject to infringement, without knowing the involvement of any act prescribed in item (a) by gross negligence.