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Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secret Protection Act — Article 14-6 (Notification of Request for Inspection of Trial Record)

부정경쟁방지 및 영업비밀보호에 관한 법률 제14조의6

This English translation is based on the Korean text effective 2024-08-21. The Korean law has since been amended (current version effective 2026-05-28) — check the Korean original.

(1) Where a decision under Article 163 (1) of the Civil Procedure Act has been rendered for the trial record respecting a trial that has issued a confidentiality order (excluding trials revoking any and all confidentiality orders) and there was a request by the relevant party to inspect the part containing the trade secrets specified in the same paragraph or take any other similar action, but the procedures for such request have been taken by a person not subject to a confidentiality order in the litigation at issue, a court official of Grade IV, court official of Grade V, court official of Grade VI, or court official of Grade VII (hereafter in this Article referred to as "court official of Grade V, etc." in this Article) shall notify the person who has made a request under Article 163 (1) of the Civil Procedure Act (excluding the person who has requested the inspection, etc. thereof: hereafter in paragraph (3) the same shall apply) of the fact that a request for the inspection, etc. thereof was made immediately after such request.

(2) In the case of paragraph (1), until two weeks have elapsed from the date a request under paragraph (1) was made (where a request for issuing a confidentiality order to the person who has taken procedures for such request was made within the said period, until the time a trial regarding such request has become final and conclusive), no court official of Grade V, etc. shall permit the person who has taken procedures for such request to inspect the part containing the trade secrets specified in paragraph (1) or take any other similar action.

(3) Paragraph (2) shall not apply where all the parties who have filed a request under Article 163 (1) of the Civil Procedure Act give their consent to permitting the person who has requested inspection, etc. under paragraph (1) to inspect the part containing the trade secrets specified in paragraph (1) or take any other similar action.[This Article Newly Inserted on Dec. 2, 2011]

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