Author: Young Jeon, Esq.

  • TM Int. Classes (11-2018)

    Class 1

    Chemicals for use in industry, science and photography, as well as in agriculture, horticulture and forestry; unprocessed artificial resins, unprocessed plastics; fire extinguishing and fire prevention compositions; tempering and soldering preparations; substances for tanning animal skins and hides; adhesives for use in industry; putties and other paste fillers; compost, manures, fertilizers; biological preparations for use in industry and science.

    Class 2

    Paints, varnishes, lacquers; preservatives against rust and against deterioration of wood; colorants, dyes; inks for printing, marking and engraving; raw natural resins; metals in foil and powder form for use in painting, decorating, printing and art.

    Class 3

    Non-medicated cosmetics and toiletry preparations; non-medicated dentifrices; perfumery, essential oils; bleaching preparations and other substances for laundry use; cleaning, polishing, scouring and abrasive preparations.

    Class 4

    Industrial oils and greases, wax; lubricants; dust absorbing, wetting and binding compositions; fuels and illuminants; candles and wicks for lighting.

    Class 5

    Pharmaceuticals, medical and veterinary preparations; sanitary preparations for medical purposes; dietetic food and substances adapted for medical or veterinary use, food for babies; dietary supplements for humans and animals; plasters, materials for dressings; material for stopping teeth, dental wax; disinfectants; preparations for destroying vermin; fungicides, herbicides.

    Class 6

    Common metals and their alloys, ores; metal materials for building and construction; transportable buildings of metal; non-electric cables and wires of common metal; small items of metal hardware; metal containers for storage or transport; safes.

    Class 7

    Machines, machine tools, power-operated tools; motors and engines, except for land vehicles; machine coupling and transmission components, except for land vehicles; agricultural implements, other than hand-operated hand tools; incubators for eggs; automatic vending machines.

    Class 8

    Hand tools and implements, hand-operated; cutlery; side arms, except firearms; razors.

    Class 9

    Scientific, nautical, surveying, photographic, cinematographic, optical, weighing, measuring, signalling, checking (supervision), life-saving and teaching apparatus and instruments; apparatus and instruments for conducting, switching, transforming, accumulating, regulating or controlling electricity; apparatus for recording, transmission or reproduction of sound or images; magnetic data carriers, recording discs; compact discs, DVDs and other digital recording media; mechanisms for coin-operated apparatus; cash registers, calculating machines, data processing equipment, computers; computer software; fire-extinguishing apparatus.

    Class 10

    Surgical, medical, dental and veterinary apparatus and instruments; artificial limbs, eyes and teeth; orthopaedic articles; suture materials; therapeutic and assistive devices adapted for the disabled; massage apparatus; apparatus, devices and articles for nursing infants; sexual activity apparatus, devices and articles.

    Class 11

    Apparatus for lighting, heating, steam generating, cooking, refrigerating, drying, ventilating, water supply and sanitary purposes.

    Class 12

    Vehicles; apparatus for locomotion by land, air or water.

    Class 13

    Firearms; ammunition and projectiles; explosives; fireworks.

    Class 14

    Precious metals and their alloys; jewellery, precious and semi-precious stones; horological and chronometric instruments.

    Class 15

    Musical instruments.

    Class 16

    Paper and cardboard; printed matter; bookbinding material; photographs; stationery and office requisites, except furniture; adhesives for stationery or household purposes; drawing materials and materials for artists; paintbrushes; instructional and teaching materials; plastic sheets, films and bags for wrapping and packaging; printers’ type, printing blocks.

    Class 17

    Unprocessed and semi-processed rubber, gutta-percha, gum, asbestos, mica and substitutes for all these materials; plastics and resins in extruded form for use in manufacture; packing, stopping and insulating materials; flexible pipes, tubes and hoses, not of metal.

    Class 18

    Leather and imitations of leather; animal skins and hides; luggage and carrying bags; umbrellas and parasols; walking sticks; whips, harness and saddlery; collars, leashes and clothing for animals.

    Class 19

    Building materials (non-metallic); non-metallic rigid pipes for building; asphalt, pitch and bitumen; non-metallic transportable buildings; monuments, not of metal.

    Class 20

    Furniture, mirrors, picture frames; containers, not of metal, for storage or transport; unworked or semi-worked bone, horn, whalebone or mother-of-pearl; shells; meerschaum; yellow amber.

    Class 21

    Household or kitchen utensils and containers; cookware and tableware, except forks, knives and spoons; combs and sponges; brushes, except paintbrushes; brush-making materials; articles for cleaning purposes; unworked or semi-worked glass, except building glass; glassware, porcelain and earthenware.

    Class 22

    Ropes and string; nets; tents and tarpaulins; awnings of textile or synthetic materials; sails; sacks for the transport and storage of materials in bulk; padding, cushioning and stuffing materials, except of paper, cardboard, rubber or plastics; raw fibrous textile materials and substitutes therefor.

    Class 23

    Yarns and threads, for textile use.

    Class 24

    Textiles and substitutes for textiles; household linen; curtains of textile or plastic.

    Class 25

    Clothing, footwear, headgear.

    Class 26

    Lace and embroidery, ribbons and braid; buttons, hooks and eyes, pins and needles; artificial flowers; hair decorations; false hair.

    Class 27

    Carpets, rugs, mats and matting, linoleum and other materials for covering existing floors; wall hangings (non-textile).

    Class 28

    Games, toys and playthings; video game apparatus; gymnastic and sporting articles; decorations for Christmas trees.

    Class 29

    Meat, fish, poultry and game; meat extracts; preserved, frozen, dried and cooked fruits and vegetables; jellies, jams, compotes; eggs; milk and milk products; oils and fats for food.

    Class 30

    Coffee, tea, cocoa and artificial coffee; rice; tapioca and sago; flour and preparations made from cereals; bread, pastries and confectionery; edible ices; sugar, honey, treacle; yeast, baking-powder; salt; mustard; vinegar, sauces (condiments); spices; ice (frozen water).

    Class 31

    Raw and unprocessed agricultural, aquacultural, horticultural and forestry products; raw and unprocessed grains and seeds; fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh herbs; natural plants and flowers; bulbs, seedlings and seeds for planting; live animals; foodstuffs and beverages for animals; malt.

    Class 32

    Beers; mineral and aerated waters and other non-alcoholic beverages; fruit beverages and fruit juices; syrups and other preparations for making beverages.

    Class 33

    Alcoholic beverages (except beers).

    Class 34

    Tobacco; smokers’ articles; matches.

    Class 35

    Advertising; business management; business administration; office functions.

    Class 36

    Insurance; financial affairs; monetary affairs; real estate affairs.

    Class 37

    Building construction; repair; installation services.

    Class 38

    Telecommunications.

    Class 39

    Transport; packaging and storage of goods; travel arrangement.

    Class 40

    Treatment of materials.

    Class 41

    Education; providing of training; entertainment; sporting and cultural activities.

    Class 42

    Scientific and technological services and research and design relating thereto; industrial analysis and research services; design and development of computer hardware and software.

    Class 43

    Services for providing food and drink; temporary accommodation.

    Class 44

    Medical services; veterinary services; hygienic and beauty care for human beings or animals; agriculture, horticulture and forestry services.

    Class 45

    Legal services; security services for the physical protection of tangible property and individuals; personal and social services rendered by others to meet the needs of individuals.

  • ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํŠนํ—ˆ: ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋กœ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?

    ํŠนํžˆ ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ฐœ๋ช…๊ฐ€ ๋ถ„๋“ค์€ ์ž์‹ ์ด ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์„œ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด๋ฏ€๋กœ ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฐพ์•„ ์˜ค์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ฃ .

    ์ฒซ์งธ๋กœ, ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ž์ฃผ ๋™์ผํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์˜ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ํƒ€์ธ์ด ์ด๋ฏธ ์ถœ์›ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๋ชจ๋“  ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ƒํ’ˆํ™”/์ƒ์—…ํ™”๋˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ชจ๋“  ์ œํ’ˆ์—๋Š” ๋•Œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์•ผํ• ๊นŒ์š”? ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์ƒ์—…์  ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ๋„ ์ƒํ’ˆํ™”์— ์‹คํŒจํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ด๋Ÿฐ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋Š” ๋ฌปํ˜€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ด ๋งŒ๋ฃŒ๋œ ํ›„, ์ œ3์ž์— ์˜ํ•ด ์ƒ์—…ํ™” ๋˜์–ด ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ๊ฑฐ๋‘๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋„ ์žˆ์ฃ .

    ๋‘˜์งธ๋กœ๋Š”, ์„ธ์ƒ์— ์ž˜ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๋ฐœ๋ช…์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๊ด€๋ จ ํ•™๊ณ„๋‚˜ ํ•ด๋‹น ์—…๊ณ„์—์„œ๋Š” ์ž˜ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ์ง€์‹์ด๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์ฃ ? ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ๊ณต์—…์†Œ์—๋Š” ํ”ํžˆ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์—ฐ๋งˆ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ์š”์‹ ์—…๊ณ„์—์„œ๋Š” ์ „ํ˜€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์žฌ๋ฃŒ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์†ํ•œ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ์ „ํ˜€ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๋ผ๋”๋ผ๋„, ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ด๋ฏธ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋„๋ฆฌ ํ™œ์šฉ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ฃ . ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์šฉ๋„ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์€ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋ณ„๊ฐœ๋กœ, ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฒ• ์ƒ์˜ “๋ฐœ๋ช…”์€์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์‚ฌ์ „์  ์ •์˜์™€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ๋ณด์ฃ .

    ๋Œ€๋‚˜๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์›์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋กœ ํ•œ ๋งˆ์šฐ์Šค ํŒจ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•ด ๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ์—ฌํƒœ๊ป ๋Œ€๋‚˜๋ฌด๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“  ๋งˆ์šฐ์ŠคํŒจ๋“œ๋Š” ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•ด ๋ณด์ฃ .

    ๋‹น์—ฐํ•œ ์–˜๊ธฐ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋Œ€๋‚˜๋ฌด๋Š” ์ „ํ˜€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋Š” ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์šฐ์ŠคํŒจ๋“œ๋„ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€์ฃ .

    ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋Œ€๋‚˜๋ฌด๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ์šฐ์ŠคํŒจ๋“œ์— ์ด์šฉ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ ๋งŒํผ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•  ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ผ๊นŒ์š”? ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„๋•Œ, ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฒ•์€ ‘ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ’์„ ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๊ฐ™์€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋”ฐ์ ธ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ, ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ๋Š” ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ๋งˆ์šฐ์ŠคํŒจ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์ด๋‚˜ ์ œ์ž‘, ๋‚ฉํ’ˆ๋“ฑ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์ง์›์ด ๋Œ€๋‚˜๋ฌด๋ผ๋Š” ์›์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๊ฐ€ ์Ÿ์ ์ด ๋˜๊ฒ ์ฃ .

    ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ์ ์ด ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์šฐ์„  ๋Œ€๋‚˜๋ฌด๋Š” ์ž์—ฐ์ƒ์— ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋Š” ์žฌ๋ฃŒ์ด๋ฉด์„œ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์˜ ๊ฐ์ข… ์ผ์ƒ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์ œ์ž‘ํ•  ๋•Œ ์ž์ฃผ ์ด์šฉ๋˜์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฏ€๋กœ ๋Œ€๋‚˜๋ฌด๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์  ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ธฐ๋Š” ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด์—, ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•ด ๋ณด๋ฉด ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ง€๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์•„๋ฌด๋ž˜๋„ ๋งˆ์šฐ์ŠคํŒจ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ํฐ ๋ชฉ์  ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์†๋ชฉ์„ ํŽธ์•ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ง€ํƒฑํ•ด์ฃผ๋Š” ๋ฐ›์นจ๋Œ€์ฃ . ๋Œ€๋‚˜๋ฌด๋กœ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ์ฟ ์…˜๊ฐ์„ ์ฃผ๋ ค๋ฉด ์–ด๋– ํ•œ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋ฐ›์นจ๋Œ€ ์™ธ์—๋„ ๋งˆ์šฐ์Šค์˜ ์›€์ง์ž„์ด ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ž˜ ์ธ์‹๋˜๋ ค๋ฉด ํŒจ๋“œ ์ž์ฒด์—๋„ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋‚˜ ํ˜•ํƒœ, ๋Œ€๋‚˜๋ฌด ์กฐ๊ฐ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ ‘ํ•ฉ ๋ฐฉ์‹ ๋“ฑ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ๋งˆ์šฐ์ŠคํŒจ๋“œ์™€ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„๋˜๋Š” ์ ์ด ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋‚˜ ์กฐ์„ฑ์€ ๋Œ€๋‚˜๋ฌด๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“  ๋งˆ์šฐ์ŠคํŒจ๋“œ์—๋งŒ ๊ตญํ•œ๋  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๋งˆ์šฐ์ŠคํŒจ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์•Œ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋‚˜ ์กฐ์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ๋Œ€๋‚˜๋ฌด๋กœ ๋งˆ์šฐ์ŠคํŒจ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด๋‚˜ ์ œ์ž‘ ๊ณต์ •์€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋Œ€๋‚˜๋ฌด๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค ๋•Œ์™€๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋กœ ๋งˆ์šฐ์ŠคํŒจ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค ๋•Œ์™€๋„ ๋‹ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ํŠน์ˆ˜ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋„ ๊ณ ๋ ค ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด์ฃ .

    ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ํŠนํ—ˆ์˜ ์ถœ์›์€ ๊ณผ์ •์ผ ๋ฟ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค, ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ›์€ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋กœ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์„ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์‹œ์žฅ์„ฑ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์—ฌ๊ฒจ์ง€๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ณต์ •์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–ค ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋กœ ์ถœ์›ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ถœ์› ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„์˜ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•  ์ง€ ๊ผญ ์ƒ๋‹ดํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ๋””์ž์ธ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋Š” ๋ญ์ฃ ?

    ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ”ํžˆ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ‘ํŠนํ—ˆ’ ํ˜น์€ ‘๋ฐœ๋ช… ํŠนํ—ˆ’๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” Utility Patent ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์™ธ์—๋„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฒ•์—๋Š” Design Patent ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์กด์žฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ด ๋””์ž์ธ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ง ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ “๋””์ž์ธ” ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์—ญ์‹œ ํŠนํ—ˆ์ธ์ง€๋ผ ‘์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด’ ๋””์ž์ธ ์ด์—ฌ์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ๋””์ž์ธ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋กœ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?

    ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๋ฉด, ์ฝ”์นด์ฝœ๋ผ ๋ณ‘์˜ ๋””์ž์ธ์€ ์–ด๋–ค๊ฐ€์š”? ์ผ๋ฐ˜๋ณ‘๊ณผ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์œ ์„ ํ˜• ๋””์ž์ธ์˜ ํŠน์ง•์ด ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ๋””์ž์ธ์€ ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฝœ๋ผ๋ณ‘์„ ์†์œผ๋กœ ์ฅ์—ˆ์„๋•Œ ์•„๋ฌด๋ž˜๋„ ์†์œผ๋กœ ์ฅ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ๋‚ ๋ ตํ•˜๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ž˜ ์ฅ์–ด์ง€๊ณ , ์ž˜ ๋ฏธ๋„๋Ÿฌ์ง€์ง€๋„ ์•Š์ฃ .

    ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ํŒ๋‹จ๋˜๋ฉด ๋””์ž์ธ ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์–ด์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋””์ž์ธ์€ Utility Patent ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•ด์•ผ๋งŒ ํ•˜์ฃ .

    ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด์— ์•„์ดํฐ์˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋””์ž์ธ์€ ์–ด๋–ค๊ฐ€์š”? ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ตœ๊ทผ์˜ ์•„์ดํฐ์€ ๋ฒ„ํŠผ ์—†์ด ํ™”๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ ๊ฝ‰ ์ฐฌ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ๋‚˜์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ „์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‘ฅ๊ธ€๋‘ฅ๊ธ€ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๊ฐ ํ˜•์ƒ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์•„์ดํฐ์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์‚ผ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์• ํ”Œ์˜ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์†Œ์†ก

    2007๋…„์— ์ œ๊ธฐ๋˜์–ด ํ•œ ๋•Œ ์„ธ๊ฐ„์„ ๋– ๋“ค์„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์‚ผ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์• ํ”Œ์˜ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์†Œ์†ก์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋˜ ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ด ์ œํ’ˆ ๋””์ž์ธ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์• ํ”Œ์˜ ๋””์ž์ธ ํŠนํ—ˆ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋‘ ์ฐจ๋ก€์˜ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์†Œ์†ก์€ ์• ํ”Œ์˜ ์Šน๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋๋‚˜๊ณ  ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์€ ์‚ผ์„ฑ์ด ์•ฝ 6์ฒœ์–ต์› ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋ฐฐ์ƒ๊ธˆ์„ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”.

    ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์‚ผ์„ฑ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ์˜ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ์œ ๋„๋‚˜ ๋งค์ถœ ์ด์•ก์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ด์œค์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์žƒ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ถˆ๊ณผ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์• ํ”Œ์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๋ฒ ๊ผˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ถˆ๋ช…์˜ˆ๋Š” ํ”ผํ•ด๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ฒ ์ฃ .

    ์ž์˜์—…์ž ํ˜น์€ ์ค‘์†Œ๊ธฐ์—… ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š”?

    ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๋ฐฐ์ƒ๊ธˆ ๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ์ˆ˜๋งŒ๋ถˆ์€ ์šฐ์Šค์šด ์†Œ์†ก ๋น„์šฉ์„ ๋ฌด์‹œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ์†Œ์†ก์ด ์ œ๊ธฐ๋˜๋ฉด ์šธ๋ฉฐ ๊ฒจ์ž ๋จน๊ธฐ๋กœ ์ƒ๋Œ€๋ฐฉ์˜ ์š”๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด์ฃผ๋Š” ์–ต์šธํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ์š”.

    ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ง‰๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ์„ ์ ํ•ด ๋‘์–ด ์ œ3์ž๊ฐ€ ํ•ด๋‹น ๋””์ž์ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ณ , ํ˜น ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ๋””์ž์ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋งŒ๋ฃŒ๋œ ํ˜น์€ ์œ ํšจํ•œ ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ๋‘๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋„์›€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ถœ์› – ์™œ ์ด๋ฆฌ ๋น„์‹ผ๊ฐ€์š”?

    ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๋น„์‹ผ๋ฐ๋Š” ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์‹œ์žฅ์€ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค๊ณผ ๋ˆ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฒค์ณ๊ธฐ์—… ๋“ค์ด ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์žฅ์•…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์ฃผ๋กœ ์ด์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ํŠนํ—ˆ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ž์—ฐํžˆ ๋น„์‹ธ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ๋ฐ–์— ์—†์ฃ . ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํŽŒ๋“ค์€ ๋ณดํ†ต PhD ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋“ค์€ ๋„์‹ฌ์˜ ๋น„์‹ผ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค์—์„œ ๋†’์€ ์—ฐ๋ด‰์„ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ผํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋น„์‹ธ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ๋ฐ–์— ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—๋„ ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ฐœ๋ช…๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์–ด์ฉŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ถœ์›์„ ํฌ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ๊ณ , ๊ณ„์†ํ•˜์—ฌ ํŠนํ—ˆ์— ์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋ฌด๋ž˜๋„ ๊ธฐ์—…์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐœ์ธ์ด๋‚˜ ์ค‘์†Œ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์ถœ์› ์ค€๋น„ ์ค‘์— ์ผ์ด ํ‹€์–ด์ง€๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๋น„์šฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒ€ํ†  ์—†์ด ๊ทผ์‹œ์•ˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์ฃ .

    ์ด๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ, ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ถœ์› ๊ธฐ๋ก์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ์—†๋Š” ๊ฐœ์ธ๋ฐœ๋ช…๊ฐ€๋‚˜ ์ค‘์†Œ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์€ ํŠนํžˆ ์ฒ˜์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ˆ์„ ์„ ์ง€๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋„๋ก ์š”๊ตฌ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ˆํƒ€๊น์ง€๋งŒ, ‘๋ชจ๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋‹นํ•œ๋‹ค’๋Š” ๋ง์ด ๊ผญ ๋“ค์–ด ๋งž๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ฃผ๋ณ€์„ ์ž˜ ์ฐพ์•„๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ๋น„์šฉ ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋Š” ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์กด์žฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด ์‹ธ๊ฒŒ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์ฐพ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‹นํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๋”๋ผ๋„ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋œ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ฒŒ ๋˜๊ฒ ์ฃ .

    ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋“ฑ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ™•์ธํ•ด ๋ณด๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋„ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ €๋Š” ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ์˜ ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋œ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?

    ์šฐ์„  ๊ฐœ์ธ/์ค‘์†Œ๊ธฐ์—…์€ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—…/๋ฒค์ณ๊ธฐ์—… ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ๋‹ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ, ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€, ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฒ•์  ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ํ•ด๋‹น ํŠนํ—ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ณผ์—ฐ ํ˜„๋ช…ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ƒ๋‹ด์ด ํ•„์š” ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์ƒ๋‹ด์— ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์šด ๋‹ต๋ณ€์ด ๋‚˜์˜ค์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ณณ์„ ์•Œ์•„๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ๋งŒ์•ฝ, ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ƒ๋‹ด๋น„์šฉ์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์•„๊นŒ์›Œํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”. ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜„์žฌ๋กœ์จ๋Š” ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ์ถœ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ˜„๋ช…ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์ด ๋‚˜์˜ค๋”๋ผ๋„ ์“ธ๋ชจ ์—†๋Š” ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ด๋“์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋‹ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ, ํŠนํ—ˆ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ์ฆ์„ ์‚ฌ๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณดํ—˜ ์•ฝ๊ด€์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์–ด๋–ค ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ๋ณด์žฅ๋˜๊ณ  ์•ˆ๋˜๊ณ  ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ด๋ฏธ ์ •ํ•ด์ ธ ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ๋ณดํ—˜ ์•ฝ๊ด€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฌธ์„œ์˜ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋ช…์„ธ์„œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ์ข…์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ฌธ์„œ์— ์ ํžŒ ‘๋ณด์žฅ๋ฒ”์œ„’๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญํŠนํ—ˆ์ฒญ์— ์˜ํ•ด ์Šน์ธ๋  ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ณ„์† ํ˜‘์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์„ค๋“ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์ด์ฃ .

    ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ, ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ƒ๋‹ด์ด ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ฐœ๋ช…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๋๋‚˜์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ถœ์›์˜ ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์ธ ๋ชฉ์ ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€, ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ฐœ๋ช…ํ’ˆ์˜ ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋“ฑ. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€์ง€ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฒ• ์™ธ์˜ ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ƒ๋‹ด์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ ธ์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ค‘๊ฐ„์‚ฌ๊ฑด: Obviousness (35 U.S.C. 103) ๊ฑฐ์ ˆ

    ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฒ•์˜ Obviousness ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฒ•์˜ “์ง„๋ณด์„ฑ”๊ณผ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    Office Action (์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ๋Š” ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋“ฑ๋ก์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ์ ˆ ํ†ต์ง€๋ฅผ ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค) ์—†์ด ํ•œ๋ฒˆ์— ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋“ฑ๋ก๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๋“œ๋ฌผ์ฃ . ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๊ฑฐ์ ˆ ์—†์ด ๋‹จ๋ฒˆ์— ๋“ฑ๋ก๋˜๋ฉด ํŠนํ—ˆ์˜ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” Claims (์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ) ์„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ข๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์˜๋ฌธ์ด ๋“ค๊ธฐ ๋งˆ๋ จ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋ณดํ†ต ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ถœ์› ์‹œ, ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋ฅผ ์ตœ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋„“๊ฒŒ ์žก์œผ๋ ค๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„๊ฐ€ ๊ณง ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋ฅผ ๊ทœ์ •ํ•˜๊ณ , ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„๊ฐ€ ์ข์œผ๋ฉด ์ดํ›„์— ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ถŒ์„ ํ–‰์‚ฌํ•  ๋•Œ ์–ด๋ ค์›€์ด ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด์ฃ .

    ํ•œ ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์‚ดํŽด ๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    Drawing-1
    ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์„ ์ฝ์„ ๋•Œ ๋„๋ฉด์ด ํฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    [an excerpt from US8143982B1, bold added]

    1. An accessory unit, comprising:

    a hinge span, the hinge span including a first magnetic element suitable for magnetic attachment to a host unit having a display; and

    a flap portion pivotally connected to the hinge span, the flap portion comprising:

    a plurality of segments all but one of which are substantially the same size and wherein one segment is wider than the other segments, wherein each segment includes a pocket that is about the same size as the corresponding segment,

    a rigid insert incorporated into each pocket, the rigid insert providing support for the associated segment, and

    a folding region between each of the segments arranged to allow the plurality of segments to fold with respect to each other, wherein a first segment is located at a first end of the flap at the hinge span and includes a magnetically attractable element and wherein a second segment is located at a second end of the flap opposite the first end and includes a plurality of magnets, wherein in a first folded configuration the flap portion forms a triangular structure when the first and second segments are folded one atop the other such that at least one of the magnets in the second segment magnetically attract the magnetically attractable element in the first segment, wherein the first and second segments that are folded one atop the other and magnetically attached to each other form one side of the triangular structure that is about equal in width to a second side of the triangular structure each of which is narrower than a third side of the triangular structure.

    [end of claim 1]

    ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ ์ฝ๋Š” ๋ฒ•

    ์œ„์— ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ตต์€ ๊ธ€์”จ๋กœ ํ‘œ์‹œํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด 5๊ตฐ๋ฐ ์žˆ์ฃ . ์ด ์ค‘ ์ฒซ๋ฒˆ์งธ 2๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ, ๋‹ค์Œ์˜ 3๊ฐœ๋Š” ๋‘๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ฃผ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ์˜ ์„ธ๋ถ€ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์˜๋ฌธ๋ฒ•์— ์ต์ˆ™ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„์ด ์–ด๋ ค์šธ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด

    ๋ฐœ๋ช…ํ’ˆ comprising:

    ์ฃผ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ 1; and

    ์ฃผ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ 2 comprising:

    ์„ธ๋ถ€ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ 1,

    ์„ธ๋ถ€ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ 2, and

    ์„ธ๋ถ€ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ 3.

    ์œผ๋กœ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (์‰ผํ‘œ์™€ ์„ธ๋ฏธ์ฝœ๋ฅธ, “and ” ๋“ฑ์— ์œ ์˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.)

    ์ฐธ๊ณ ๋กœ, ์• ํ”Œ ์‚ฌ์˜ ์•„์ดํŒจ๋“œ ์šฉ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธ์ปค๋ฒ„ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์‚ดํŽด ๋ณผ๊นŒ์š”?

    ์ฒซ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ฃผ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ์ธ A hinge span ์€ ์„ธ๋ถ€์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ํ™”๋ฉด์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ณธ์ฒด์— ์ž์„ฑ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ€์ฐฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ž์„ฑ ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์ฃ . ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ “~ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ” ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋œป์œผ๋กœ “means for”๋ผ๋Š” ๋ง์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๊ฑด ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฒ•์—์„œ๋Š” ์ž์ฃผ ์“ฐ๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„์ด๊ณ , ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ž ์ชฝ์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐœ๋ช…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ƒ์„ธ์„ค๋ช…์— ํฌํ•จ๋œ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ˆ˜๋‹จ๊ณผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ๋ง๋ผํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์“ฐ๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ์™œ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ํƒœ๋ธ”๋ฆฟ PC์ด๋‚˜ ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด iPad ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ , “ํ™”๋ฉด์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ณธ์ฒด”๋ผ๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ์™œ ์ž์„์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  “์ž์„ฑ ์š”์†Œ”๋ผ๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์„ ๊นŒ์š”? ๋งŒ์•ฝ iPad๋ผ๊ณ  ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๊ฐค๋Ÿญ์‹œ ํƒญ์— ๋ถ€์ฐฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ž์„ฑ ์š”์†Œ๋Š” ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„์— ํฌํ•จ์ด ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ์•„์˜ˆ “์ž์„ฑ”๋„ ๋นผ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๊ณ  “๋ณธ์ฒด์— ๋ถ€์ฐฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์š”์†Œ” ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”? ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ๊ธฐ๋ก์„ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด์ง€ ์•Š์•„์„œ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์–ด์ฉŒ๋ฉด ์ตœ์ดˆ ์ถœ์› ์‹œ์—๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์„ ์ผ์„ ์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Office Action ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด์„œ ๋ณด์ •์„ ํ–ˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ์ฃ .

    ๋‹ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋‘๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ฃผ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ์ธ flap portion ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์„ธ๋ถ€ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จ ์•„์ฃผ ๊ธธ๊ฒŒ ์ฒญ๊ตฌ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์„ธ๋ถ€ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋‚˜์”ฉ ์ž˜ ๋ถ„์„ํ•ด ๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ ‘์–ด์„œ ์Šคํƒ ๋“œ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์žฅ์น˜์ž„์„ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํ—Œ๋ฐ ์ ‘์–ด์„œ ์Šคํƒ ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ์ปค๋ฒ„๋Š” ์• ํ”Œ์˜ ๋ฐœ๋ช…์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฏธ Incase Designs Corp. (“์ธ์ผ€์ด์Šค”) ์‚ฌ ์—์„œ ์ถœ์›ํ•œ ๋ฐœ๋ช…์ธ๋ฐ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ธ์ผ€์ด์Šค ์‚ฌ์˜ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋„ ์‚ดํŽด๋ด์•ผ๊ฒ ์ฃ ?

    Drawing-2

    1. A cover for an electronic device comprising:

    a rectangular front cover comprising first, second, and third panels between a first edge and second edge of the front cover, wherein the first panel is closer to the second edge than the second and third panels, the second panel is between the first and third panels, and the third panel is adjacent the second panel,

    between the first and second panels is a first hinge, and

    between the second and third panels is a second hinge;

    a back cover, coupled to the front cover, which will retain the electronic device in the case; and

    [์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ 1๋ฒˆ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์˜ ๋์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€๋งŒ ์‚ดํŽด ๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.]

    ์ฐธ๊ณ ๋กœ, ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์€ ํ•œ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ถœ์›์„œ์— 2๊ฐœ ์ด์ƒ ์กด์žฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ํ†ต์ƒ ์ฒซ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ด๊ณ  ํฌ๊ด„์ ์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ๋Š” 1๋ฒˆ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ๋งŒ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๊ผญ ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์กฐ๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์–ด์ ธ ์žˆ๊ณ  ์ ‘์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ด ์ด๋ฏธ ์ธ์ผ€์ด์Šค ์‚ฌ์˜ ํŠนํ—ˆ์— ์„ค๋ช…๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ์• ํ”Œ ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ๊ธฐ์กด ์ œํ’ˆ๋ณด๋‹ค “์ง„๋ณด”ํ•œ ์ ์„ ๊ผฝ์œผ๋กœ๋ฉด “์ž์„ฑ” ์„ ๋นผ๋†“์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์• ํ”Œ์˜ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์— “์ž์„ฑ”์ด ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•œ ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์žˆ๋„ค์š”.

    ๋ฌผ๋ก , ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ๋์€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ์ธ์ผ€์ด์Šค ์‚ฌ์˜ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์—๋Š” back cover ๋ผ๋Š” ์ฃผ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์กด์žฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ธ์ผ€์ด์Šค ์‚ฌ๋Š” front cover ์™€ back cover ๋‘๊ฐ€์ง€๋ฅผ ์ตœ์ƒ์œ„์˜ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ๋กœ ๋ฐœ๋ช…์„ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ฃ .

    ์•„๊นŒ ์• ํ”Œ ์‚ฌ์˜ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธ ์ปค๋ฒ„์—๋Š” back cover๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ์Œ์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜์‹œ๋‚˜์š”? ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์šฉ์–ด๊ฐ€ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์„œ ํ—ท๊ฐˆ๋ฆฌ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ๋„ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์• ํ”Œ ์‚ฌ์˜ flap portion ์€ ์ธ์ผ€์ด์Šค ์˜ front cover ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ธ์ผ€์ด์Šค์—์„œ back cover๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š” ๋””์ž์ธ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ–ˆ์Œ์„ ์•Œ์•˜๋‹ค๋ฉด, back cover ๋ฅผ ๊ตณ์ด ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์— ์“ฐ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ฒ ์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋žฌ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์• ํ”Œ์ด “์ง„๋ณด”ํ•œ ์ ์€ ๊ฒจ์šฐ ์ž์„ฑ์„ ์ด์šฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์  ๋ฐ–์— ๋‚จ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋žฌ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ž์„ฑ์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„๋งŒํผ ์ง„๋ณดํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ด์Šˆ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌ๊ฒ ์ฃ .

    ์ด์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์— ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜๋ฉด ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚  ์ˆ˜๋ก ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋Š” ์ข์•„์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ก€๋กœ, ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ถŒ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์ธ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์†Œ์†ก์—์„œ ํ”ผ๊ณ ์˜ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์นจํ•ด ํ–‰์œ„๋ฅผ ์ฆ๋ช…ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด, ํ”ผ๊ณ ์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ฆ๋ช…ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ถœ์› ํ›„ Office Action ์„ ๋ฐ›์œผ์…จ๋‹ค๋ฉด,

    obviousness (35 U.S.C. 103) ์— ๊ทผ๊ฑฐํ•œ ๊ฑฐ์ ˆ ์‚ฌ์œ ๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋งค์šฐ ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๊ฑฐ์ ˆ ์‚ฌ์œ ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์œ„์—์„œ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์— ์ดํ•ด ์—†์ด๋Š” ๊ทน๋ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๊ฑฐ์ ˆ์‚ฌ์œ  ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์œ„์˜ ๋‚ด์šฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ํ† ๋Œ€๋กœ ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๊ด€์—๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋–ค ์„ค๋ช…์„ ๋” ํ•˜๊ณ , ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์„ ๋ฐ”๊พธ์–ด ์“ฐ๋ฉด ๊ฑฐ์ ˆ ์‚ฌ์œ ๋ฅผ ๊ทน๋ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • Online Trademark Services: Good or Bad?

    Let’s talk about filing a TM application without any help first.

    There is no doubt that any US person, including legal entity having address in the U.S., can file a trademark application without absolutely no help.

    The government agency handling trademark registration, the USPTO, provides ample resources including video clips to guide you through the process.

    Although the form itself is not as user-friendly as it could be, you can do it yourself without any prior knowledge or experience.

    Nonetheless, it’s not about simply filling the form.

    You ought to consider many things before filling out the application form. From what can be trademarked to how it should be trademarked, there are many questions that you should ask yourself before you start filling out the form. The USPTO provides all relevant information, but you can fill out the form without studying them.

    The thing is that all online fee services that charge flat fees ask you to choose on your own if you want a basic service or a more through service. How are you supposed to know?

    When I prepare trademark applications for my clients,

    I see cases where I end up charging only $200 for attorney’s fees in addition to the then-TEAS Plus fee of $225. That’s about on par with the online trademark services.

    As I internally process all the questions a client should ask and ask the client only what must be answered by the client, the client might not know how much time and money is being saved. Some attorneys charge for those hidden time and money savings. That explains why they are more expensive than those largely automated trademark services via online.

    I tend to talk to clients a lot, and some clients have tons of questions. I think they benefit more from my service. In fact, if you just want it to be filed and move on, you might benefit from automated services as I am not available 24/7.

  • ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ƒํ‘œ ๋“ฑ๋ก, ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๋Œ€ํ–‰ ์—…์ฒด์—์„œ ํ•ด๋„ ๋ฏฟ์„๋งŒ ํ•œ๊ฐ€์š”?

    ๋จผ์ € ํ•œ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์งš๊ณ  ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€์ž๋ฉด,

    ์ ์–ด๋„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ์ œ๋„์ , ํ–‰์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ์•„๋ฌด๋Ÿฐ ๋„์›€ ์—†์ด๋„ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ์ƒํ‘œ ๋“ฑ๋ก์„ ์ฒ˜์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋๊นŒ์ง€ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๊ธˆ๋…„ ๋“ค์–ด, ๊ตญ์™ธ ๊ธฐ์—…/๊ฐœ์ธ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๋‚ด ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ์ธ์„ ์ง€์ •ํ•˜๋„๋ก ์š”๊ตฌ๋˜์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋Š” ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ (ํŠนํžˆ ์ค‘๊ตญ) ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์˜ ์ •๋ถ€ ๋ณด์กฐ๊ธˆ(์‹ค๋น„ 100% ์ง€์›)์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•œ ์ถœ์›์ด ๊ธ‰์ฆํ•œ ์ดํ›„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง„ ๊ทœ์น™์œผ๋กœ, ๋ง ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ตญ์™ธ ์ถœ์›์ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํŠน๋ณ„ ์กฐ์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋ฏธํŠนํ—ˆ์ฒญ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ฏผ์›์ธ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ต์œก์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์„ ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณต์‹ ๋ฌธ์„œ์— ์ ˆ์ฐจ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์†Œ๊ฐœ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋Œ€์‘ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ œ์•ˆ๊ณผ ์•ˆ๋‚ด๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ, ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ์ƒํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์–‘์‹์„ ๊ธฐ์ž…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ๋๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฑด ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ฒ ์ฃ .

    ์–‘์‹์„ ๊ธฐ์ž…ํ•  ์ค„ ์•„๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ƒํ‘œ ๋“ฑ๋ก ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ „ํ˜€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๋Œ€ํ–‰ ์—…์ฒด๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์–‘์‹์„ ์ฒ˜์Œ ์ ‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ธ๋„ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋น ๋œจ๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์ž…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋„์™€ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋Œ€๊ฐ€๋กœ ๋ณดํ†ต $100 ์ดํ•˜์˜ ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜์œ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋Š” ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ •๋ง๋กœ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋œ ์ƒํ‘œ๊ถŒ์„ ์ทจ๋“ํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ์ ์ด ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ƒํ’ˆ ๋ฐ ์ƒํ‘œ์˜ ์ข…๋ฅ˜๋‚˜ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๊นŒ์ง€ ์ƒ์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋А๊ปด์ง€๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์—ฌ disclaimer ๋‚˜ international class ์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ์ƒ์†Œํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ฉด๋ฐ€ํ•œ ๊ฒ€ํ† ๋ฅผ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋œ ์ƒํ‘œ๊ถŒ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” ์ดํ›„์— ์ƒํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ํ›„ํšŒํ•ด๋„ ๋Œ์ดํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์ผ์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์—…์ฒด์—์„œ ์ฑ„ํƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ผ ์š”๊ธˆ (flat fee) + ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๋น„์šฉ ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์„œ๋น„์Šค (optional extra charge service) ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ํ•ด๋‹น ์ƒํ‘œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„์˜ ๊ฒ€ํ† ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ง€ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์†Œ๋น„์ž๊ฐ€, ๊ฒ€ํ† ์˜ ๊นŠ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋‹ค ๋ณด๋ฉด,

    ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์ผ€์ด์Šค์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ •๋ถ€ ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ $225 ์— ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ ๋น„์šฉ $200 ์ •๋„๋กœ ๋“ฑ๋ก๊นŒ์ง€ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋„ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ๊ฒ€ํ† ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ๋„ ์—†๋Š” ์„œ๋น„์Šค์— ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ง€๋ถˆํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด ์‚ฌ์‹ค ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์„ ํƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ฃ .

    ์•„๋ฌด๋ž˜๋„ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณ ๊ฐ์— ๋งž์ถ”์–ด ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ์ง„ํ–‰์ด ๋”๋”œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ  ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ๋„ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ •๋ณด ๋ฐ ์ž๋ฃŒ ์ œ๊ณต์— ์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ์‹ ๊ฒฝ์„ ์“ฐ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„์šฉ๋„ ๋” ์‹ธ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๊ฒ ์ฃ .

    ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ํŠนํžˆ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•˜์‹  ๊ฒŒ ๋งŽ๊ณ  ์ ˆ์ฐจ์— ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์œผ์‹  ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ถ„๋“ค์€ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ/๋ฌด์ œํ•œ์œผ๋กœ ์ œ๊ณต๋˜๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹ด์„ ์ž˜ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์…”์„œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํฐ ์ด๋“์„ ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋ถ€๋”” ์žฅ๋‹จ์ ์„ ์ž˜ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜์…”์„œ ํ˜„๋ช…ํ•œ ์„ ํƒํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • Standard Character vs. Special Form ์ฐจ์ด์  ์„ค๋ช…

    ์ƒ์—…์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒํ‘œ์˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ๊ธ€์”จ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ๋˜๋Š” ๋‘˜์˜ ์กฐํ•ฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ ธ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๊ธ€์”จ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง„ ์ƒํ‘œ๋Š” ์ด๋ฆ„ ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•˜๋ฉด ๋˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ธ€์”จ๋ฅผ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณ ์œ ์˜ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋Š” ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋ณต์žกํ•ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ƒํ‘œ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ธ ์˜ˆ๋กœ ์ฝ”์นด์ฝœ๋ผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์ฃ . ์ฝ”์นด์ฝœ๋ผ ์ปดํผ๋‹ˆ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ธ ์Œ๋ฃŒ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์ธ ์ฝ”์นด์ฝœ๋ผ๋Š” “์ฝ”์นด์ฝœ๋ผ” ๋ผ๋Š” ์ด๋ฆ„ ์ž์ฒด๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋‚˜ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์˜ ํ‘œํ˜„ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ๋” ์ต์ˆ™ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๊ณ ์œ ์˜ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์ƒํ‘œ๋Š” ๊ธ€์”จ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง„ ์ƒํ‘œ์™€ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธํ™”๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์ด๋ฆ„ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€์™€ ์ƒ‰์„ ์ด์šฉํ•ด ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™” ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์€๋ฐ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์ด๋ฆ„๋งŒ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ณ ์œ ์˜ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•ด ๋‘๋Š” ํŽธ์ด ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํ—ˆ๋‚˜ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ฑ๋ก ์‹œ์—๋Š” ๊ธ€์”จ๋งŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    1. ์ฒซ์งธ๋กœ, ๊ธ€์”จ๋ฅผ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•ด ๋‘๋ฉด ์ด๋ฆ„ ์ž์ฒด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฏ€๋กœ ๊ทธ ํ‘œํ˜„ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ์–ด๋– ํ•˜๋“  ๊ฐ„์— ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ๋Š” ํ•ด๋‹น ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    2. ๋˜ํ•œ, ๊ณ ์œ ์˜ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ๋กœ ๋“ฑ๋ก์„ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด ๋กœ๊ณ ์˜ ๋””์ž์ธ์„ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝํ•  ๋•Œ ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ƒํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถˆํŽธํ•จ์ด ์žˆ์ฃ . ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋‚˜ ์—…์ฒด์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋กœ๊ณ  ๋””์ž์ธ์ด ์ž์ฃผ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ด์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ด์œ ๋กœ ๋ณดํ†ต Standard Character Mark (๊ธ€์”จ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง„ ์ƒํ‘œ)๊ฐ€ ์„ ํ˜ธ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ—ˆ๋‚˜ ์ด ๋•Œ Standard Character ๋กœ ํ‘œ๊ธฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ž๋Š” ์•ŒํŒŒ๋ฒณ/์ˆซ์ž/ํŠน์ˆ˜๊ธฐํ˜ธ๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง„ ๋ชฉ๋ก์— ํ•œ์ •๋˜๊ณ , ํ•œ๊ธ€์€ ์ด ๋ชฉ๋ก์— ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๊ตญ์–ด ์ƒํ‘œ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์˜๋ฌธ ํ‘œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋„ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ „ํ˜€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์˜๋ฌธ ํ‘œ๊ธฐ๋กœ๋„ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ตญ์–ด ๋‹จ์–ด๋ฅผ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๊ทธ ์™ธ์—๋„ ๊ณ ์œ ์˜ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ๋กœ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•  ๋•Œ์˜ ์žฅ์ ์ด ์กด์žฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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    54.200.24.30/ ์—์„œย ย ๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•ด ๋ด…์‹œ๋‹ค. IPfever.com๊ณผ ๋ฌด๊ด€ํ•œ ์ผ๋ณธ์–ด ๋ฐ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์—์„œย ย ๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ผ๋ณธ์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด JP ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ผ๋ณธ ๋ฌธํ™”์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์• ์ฐฉ์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด Fever๋ผ๊ณ  ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ์ง€์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด๋„, ์ด ๋‘๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ƒํ‘œ๋Š” ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์œ ์‚ฌํ•˜์—ฌ ํ˜ผ๋™์„ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒํ‘œ๊ถŒ ์œ„๋ฐ˜์ด์ฃ .

    ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜, ๋งŒ์•ฝ IPfever๋ฅผ ๊ธ€์”จ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•ด ๋‘์—ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ฃ . ์ผ๋‹จ์€ fever๋ผ๋Š” ๋‹จ์–ด๋Š” IPfever ๋งŒ์˜ ๊ณ ์œ ํ•œ ๋ช…์นญ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ๋œป์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์˜๋‹จ์–ด์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ๋“ฑ๋ก ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์„ ํƒ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋Š” ๋‘๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์ฃ .

    ํ—ˆ๋‚˜ Standard Character Mark์˜ ๋“ฑ๋ก์ด ์•„์˜ˆ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋„ ์กด์žฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ์ปคํ”ผ์ „๋ฌธ์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ƒํ‘œ๋กœ “The Coffee House” ๋ฅผ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•˜๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ์–ด๋ ต์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™œ๋ƒํ•˜๋ฉด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์ƒ์ ์„ ์ง€์นญํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ”ํžˆ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋ง์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด์ฃ .

    ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์•„๋ž˜์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ณ ์œ ์˜ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์„ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    the_coffee_house

    ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ด ๋•Œ ๊ธ€์”จ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋‚ด์šฉ์˜ disclaimer ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜์ฃ . ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ณ ์œ ์˜ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์„ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•ด ๋‘๋ฉด ์•„๋ž˜์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ชจ๋ฐฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ ์ ˆํžˆ ๋Œ€์‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    the_coffee_shop

    ์ƒํ‘œ์™€ ์ƒํ‘œ์˜ ํ™œ์šฉ ๋ฐ ๋ชฉ์ ์— ๋งž๋Š” ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์„ ํƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • Patent Obviousness Rejection Explained

    Obviousness is a very common reason for rejection.

    A grant of patent without a single rejection is quite uncommon. One of the reason is that most applicants want to claim broadest possible for the greatest protection of law.

    Broadening the scope of claims.

    To maximize the scope of your claim, you don’t want to include unnecessary details in your claim. Let’s take a look at an example (from a real patent). You don’t have to read it through, just scheme.

    [an excerpt from US8143982B1, bold added]

    Drawing-1
    always easier to understand the claims with drawings

    1. An accessory unit, comprising:

    a hinge span, the hinge span including a first magnetic element suitable for magnetic attachment to a host unit having a display; and

    a flap portion pivotally connected to the hinge span, the flap portion comprising:

    a plurality of segments all but one of which are substantially the same size and wherein one segment is wider than the other segments, wherein each segment includes a pocket that is about the same size as the corresponding segment,

    a rigid insert incorporated into each pocket, the rigid insert providing support for the associated segment, and

    a folding region between each of the segments arranged to allow the plurality of segments to fold with respect to each other, wherein a first segment is located at a first end of the flap at the hinge span and includes a magnetically attractable element and wherein a second segment is located at a second end of the flap opposite the first end and includes a plurality of magnets, wherein in a first folded configuration the flap portion forms a triangular structure when the first and second segments are folded one atop the other such that at least one of the magnets in the second segment magnetically attract the magnetically attractable element in the first segment, wherein the first and second segments that are folded one atop the other and magnetically attached to each other form one side of the triangular structure that is about equal in width to a second side of the triangular structure each of which is narrower than a third side of the triangular structure.

    [end of claim 1]

    What’s claimed?

    By looking only at highlighted words, you can figure out that it has two main components, a hinge span and a flap portion, and the flap portion has three sub-components, a plurality of segments, a rigid insert for each segment, and a folding region between each of the segments.

    What do you make out of it? Well, it’s iPad Smart Cover by Apple.

    Let’s look into the details.

    A hinge span is described as follows: including a first magnetic element suitable for magnetic attachment to a host unit having a display.

    It doesn’t say a magnet or a tablet PC. Instead, it says a magnetic element suitable for magnetic attachment and a unit having a display, respectively. If it said a magnet, someone can make a cover with a lodestone instead of a magnet and avoid infringement. The same thing goes to the tablet PC.

    But, why not just an element suitable for attachment? I think that would be the track which leads to the obviousness trap. Granted it would expand the scope, it also eliminates an outstanding element from the invention. Every cover has some element for attachment.

    On a side note,

    what about a unit having a display? Why not a unit having a flat surface? Well, Apple is an electronics company, and it probably wouldn’t make a cover for your photo frame. In that sense, a display pretty much is everything that needs to be covered in Apple’s patent.

    Infusing non-obvious elements into claims.

    Skipping forward to the bulky section, a folding region, can you guess why in the world it is so long? Well, you guess it’s important, right?

    This is the section that makes this cover distinct from any other cover design within people’s mind (at the time of invention, of course). It describes how the segments of a cover fold and magnetically bind together to form a rigid stand that can support a host unit. So, you have to describe it fully.

    By the way, a cover that folds into a stand is not an invention by Apple. Search Google Patents “US8960421B1” and you will see a prior patent filed by Incase Designs Corp. that has almost identical folding functionality.

    Let’s take a look at a claim by Incase Designs [excerpt from US8960421B1].

    Drawing-2

    1. A cover for an electronic device comprising:

    a rectangular front cover comprising first, second, and third panels between a first edge and second edge of the front cover, wherein the first panel is closer to the second edge than the second and third panels, the second panel is between the first and third panels, and the third panel is adjacent the second panel,

    between the first and second panels is a first hinge, and

    between the second and third panels is a second hinge;

    a back cover, coupled to the front cover, which will retain the electronic device in the case; and

    [It goes on, but let’s stop here.]

    So, a flap portion of Apple patent can’t overcome an obviousness rejection by itself despite the elaborated manner of how segments fold and get attracted together to form a stand; that’s where the magnetic element for attachment comes into play. This magnetic element obsolete a back cover, which is listed in the Incase Designs’ patent claim.

    Here’s an important question: if Incase Designs knew a way to make a cover without a back cover, would its claim include the back cover element in the claims?

    The fact that Incase Design included the back cover element in the claim supports the non-obviousness of replacing a back cover with a magnetic element.

    You can read more about this in “Including an unnecessary element in the claims.” 

    How to deal with an obviousness rejection.

    After a careful thought and drafting an application, you can still get a rejection based on obviousness. In this case, you can try again, or get help from patent attorneys.

  • How to Write a Patent Application: Specification

    Patent Specification in your application is the body of your application.

    Your patent claims will be read in the context of the specification. Therefore, the specification should include all the information necessary to figure out what you claimed in your patent claim(s).  Roughly speaking, it should be an all-inclusive manual for your invention.

    It’s part of the deal you’re making with the public.

    You’re disclosing  your invention to the public, and in exchange you’ll be granted a monopoly for a limited time. To ensure fairness in this deal, you’re required to fully and comprehensibly disclose your invention without hiding anything.

    You should focus on making the invention available to the public. 

    If you want to hide something from the public, you’re free to do so by opting out from disclosing it, in which case you shouldn’t claim it either. However, you shouldn’t attempt to hide even a minute detail of your claimed invention because it can invalidate your patent retrospectively.

    For example, let’s say you know two ways to make your invention. You know one works better than the other, but you don’t want people know about the better one. If you disclose the other one only, the patent will be held invalid.

    If you don’t claim it now, you may lose it forever.

    You may be tempted to include everything you know in your patent application because it would make sure you disclose adequately. Be careful when you include something in your disclosure which are not claimed. Filing a patent application is considered a publication. If you publish something, you will have a year to file a patent application for it. After that, you can’t patent it.

    There’s much more.

    Although you can learn a lot from the patent applications you found during your clearance search, it’s still not a perfect guide for your specification. To understand your claim, one must read the specification. For this reason, asking an attorney who reviewed your claim(s) to review your specification could be a lot less time-consuming than you think. You don’t need to pay for the separate availability retainer in that case. Just talk to the lawyer who reviewed your claim(s).