Author: Young Jeon, Esq.

  • ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ์ƒํ‘œ Google ํ•ด ๋ณด์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?

    ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ์ƒํ‘œ Google ํ•ด ๋ณด์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?

    ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์€ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ„ํŒ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ œ์ผ ๋จผ์ € ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ํ•˜์‹œ๋‚˜์š”? ์†Œ์œ„ ์–ผ๋ฆฌ ์–ด๋‹ตํ„ฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌ์šฐ๋Š” “์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด๋‚˜ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๋“ค ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋จผ์ € ์‹œ๋„ํ•ด ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ”๋„ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์†Œ๋น„์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๋‚ฏ์„  ๊ฐ„ํŒ์€ ๋ˆˆ์—๋Š” ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋Œ์ง€ ๋ชฐ๋ผ๋„ ์„ ๋œป ์ด์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ๋Š” ๊บผ๋ ค์ง€๊ธฐ ๋งˆ๋ จ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋งŽ์€ ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ƒํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์นœ์ˆ™ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด TV๋‚˜ ์ง€๋ฉด ๊ด‘๊ณ ์— ๋งŽ์€ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ง€์ถœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ—Œ๋ฐ ์š”์ฆ˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋งค์ฒด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•˜์—ฌ ์ˆ˜ ๋งŽ์€ ๊ด‘๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ์Ÿ์•„์ง€๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ, ๋Œ€๋‹ค์ˆ˜ ํ˜„๋Œ€์ธ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ด‘๊ณ ๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ฐ€์‹œ์ง€๋งŒ ์–ด์ฉ” ์ˆ˜ ์—†์ด ๊ฒฌ๋ŽŒ๋‚ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ธ‰์  ํ”ผํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ์กด์žฌ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์—ฐ์œ ๋กœ ์š”์ฆ˜์€ ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ๊ด‘๊ณ ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋‚˜ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ํ™๋ณด๊ฐ€ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ๊ด‘๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๊ณต์‹ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋‚˜ ์†Œ์…œ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ(SNS)๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ํ™๋ณด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ๋น„๋กฏํ•˜์—ฌ, ์ธ๊ธฐ ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํŒ”๋กœ์›Œ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์€ ์†Œ์…œ๊ณ„์ •์— ํ˜‘์ฐฌ ๋“ฑ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ œํ’ˆ์ด๋‚˜ ์ƒํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋…ธ์ถœ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๊นŒ์ง€, ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ํ™๋ณด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ์ ์ฐจ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•ด ์ง€๊ณ  ๋ณดํŽธํ™” ๋˜๋Š” ์ถ”์„ธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

    ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ„์ ‘์ ์ธ ๊ด‘๊ณ ๋Š” ์ž ์žฌ์  ์†Œ๋น„์ž์—๊ฒŒ ์ƒํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜๊ฐ•์ œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋…ธ์ถœ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฅผ ํฌ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ์†Œ๋น„์ž๊ฐ€ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ๋“ฑ์„ ํ†ตํ•˜์—ฌ ์ง์ ‘ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์ฐพ์•„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋„๋ก ์œ ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋˜‘๊ฐ™์ด ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•œ ๊ธ€ ์ผ์ง€๋ผ๋„ ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๊ด‘๊ณ ์ฃผ์˜ ์ผ๋ฐฉ์ ์ธ ์ฃผ์žฅ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๊ฐ€ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ์ฐพ์•„๋‚ธ ์š”๊ธดํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๋กœ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ๋˜์ฃ .

    ๋งŽ์€ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ์ต์ˆ™์น˜ ์•Š์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๋‚˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์—…์ฒด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๋‚˜ ํ‰ํŒ์„ ์•Œ์•„ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜๊ณ , ์ด ๋•Œ ๊ทธ ์—…์ฒด์˜ ์ƒํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํŠน์ • ์ƒํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ํ‚ค์›Œ๋“œ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ์ˆœ์œ„์—์„œ๋Š” ์ƒ์œ„๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ ์ง€๋ผ๋„, ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ์ƒํ‘œ๋กœ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋Š” ํ•ด๋‹น ์—…์ฒด์˜ ๊ณต์‹ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์˜ ์ฒซ๋ฒˆ์งธ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€์— ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋งค์šฐ ์ปค์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๊ณต์‹ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์—†์„ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋Š” ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ(yelp ๋‚˜ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€๋งต ๋“ฑ)์˜ ํ•ด๋‹น ์—…์ฒด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ์ƒ์œ„๊ถŒ์— ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ํฌ์ฃ . ํ—Œ๋ฐ ๊ณต์‹ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์™€ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์˜ ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ ์—…์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์ง์ ‘ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ์ผ๋ถ€ ์•™์‹ฌ์„ ํ’ˆ์€ ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ์— ์˜ํ•ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ€์ •์ ์ธ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด๋Š” ๊ณต์‹ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋Š” ์ปค๋…• ํ•ด๋‹น ์—…์ฒด์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ๋„ ์ฐพ์•„ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต๊ณ , ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๋ถ€์ •์ ์ธ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ์‹ฌ์–ด ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋ฉด ์ƒํ‘œ ์ž์ฒด์— ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ์ƒํ‘œ์— ์ง€์—ญ๋ช…(์นด์šดํ‹ฐ, ๋„์‹œ, ํƒ€์šด ์ด๋ฆ„ ๋“ฑ) ์ด๋‚˜ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๋ช…์นญ(๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ์„œํ”Œ๋ผ์ด ๋“ฑ)์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ•˜๋ฉด ํ•ด๋‹น ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ์„œํ”Œ๋ผ์ด๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ์ฃ . ๊ทธ ๋ฐ–์—๋„ ํŒ๋งค ์ƒํ’ˆ์ด๋‚˜ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์„ค๋ช…์„ ์ด๋ฆ„์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, “Luxury Beauty Supply” ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ด๋ฆ„์€ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰์—”์ง„์—์„œ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ํ‚ค์›Œ๋“œ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰๊ณผ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋ฏ€๋กœ, ํ•ด๋‹น ์—…์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ์ƒ์œ„์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒํ‘œ๋กœ ๋ถ€์ ํ•ฉํ•œ ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ์„ ํƒํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์— ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ข‹์€ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ๋‚จ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ ์ง€๋ฏ€๋กœ, ์ฒ˜์Œ ์ƒํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•  ๋•Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์•ˆ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ƒํ‘œ๋กœ์จ์˜ ์—ญํ• ์„ ์ž˜ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด ๋ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ƒํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ์—๋„, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์—…์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋™์ผํ•œ ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์œ ์‚ฌ ์ƒํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰๋˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๋Š”์ง€ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•˜์—ฌ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์ƒ์˜ ์ž…์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์ ธ๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰์—”์ง„์— ๊ฐ„๋‹จํžˆ ์ƒํ‘œ๋ช…์„ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ํ•ด ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ํ•ด๋‹น ์ƒํ‘œ๋ช…์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ข‹์€ ์ƒํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ์—ฌ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๋ฟ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ํ˜„์žฌ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํ‘œ์˜ ๋„์šฉ์ด๋‚˜ ์œ ์‚ฌ ์ƒํ‘œ์˜ ์ถœํ˜„ ๋“ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ ์ ˆํžˆ ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ํฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ์ƒํ‘œ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๊ผญ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€ํ•ด ๋ณด์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํŠนํ—ˆ – ๊ฐœ์š”

    ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํŠนํ—ˆ – ๊ฐœ์š”

    ํŠนํ—ˆ์˜ ๋ณธ์งˆ์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ด ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํŠนํ—ˆ๋Š” ์ด์ œ๊ป ์—†๋˜ ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ณ  ์œ ์šฉํ•œ  ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋ฅผ ํ˜„์‹คํ™” ์‹œํ‚จ ์ฒซ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋…์ ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ถ€์—ฌํ•˜์ฃ . ๋ฌผ๋ก  ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ถŒ์€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์—ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฏ€๋กœ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ ค๋ฉด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ์ถœ์›ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ๊ฒจ๋ƒฅํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ถœ์›์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ ธ์•ผ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์ฃ . ๋˜ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ, ์œ ํ†ต ๋“ฑ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ€๋ถ„์—์„œ ๋…์ ๊ถŒ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋ฏ€๋กœ, ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋‚˜ ์œ ํ†ต ๊ฒฝ๋กœ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ผ์—์„œ๋„ ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋“ฑ๋ก์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ค‘๊ตญ, ๋ฒ ํŠธ๋‚จ ๋“ฑ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ธ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๊ธฐ์ง€ ๋“ค์€ ์•„์ง ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๋„์ƒ๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ถŒ์˜ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฏ€๋กœ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋“ฑ๋ก ํ›„ ์ˆ˜์ž… ๊ธˆ์ง€ ์กฐ์น˜ ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ œ์žฌ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋” ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด์ฃ .

    ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋“ฑ๋ก์˜ ์ ˆ์ฐจ

    ํŠนํ—ˆ์˜ ์ถœ์› ๋ฐ ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋Š” ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ํ•œ๋ฏธ ์–‘๊ตญ์ด ์ง€์žฌ๊ถŒ ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ (WIPO)์˜ ๊ฐ€์ž…์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ƒํ˜ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋ฐœํ–‰ ํŠนํ—ˆ ๊ธฐ๋ก ๋ฐ ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ๊ณผ์ • ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด์ฃ .

    ์ผ๋‹จ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ถœ์›์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด, ์ถœ์›์„œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งํ•ด Application ์„ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ—Œ๋ฐ, ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ถœ์›์€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณต์žกํ•˜๊ณ  ๊นŒ๋‹ค๋กญ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ ์ž๊ฒฉ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋”๋ผ๋„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํŠนํ—ˆ์ฒญ์˜ ๋ณ„๋„ ์ž๊ฒฉ์‹œํ—˜์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ํ†ต๊ณผํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋งŒ์ด ๊ทธ ์ถœ์›์„ ๋Œ€๋ฆฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋ณธ์ธ์˜ ์ถœ์›์„œ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•˜์—ฌ ์ œ์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ๋กœ๋„ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์„œ๋ฅ˜ ๋ฏธ๋น„, ๊ธฐ์žฌ ๋ถˆ๋น„ ๋“ฑ์˜ ์‚ฌ์œ ๋กœ ๊ฑฐ์ ˆ ๋‹นํ•  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋งค์šฐ ๋†’์ฃ .

    ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋“ฑ๋ก ์š”๊ฑด

    Application ์„ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๋จผ์ € ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ๊ตฌํ˜„๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋งŒ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ ๋Š” ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅผ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋งŒ๋“  ํ›„์—์•ผ ๋“ฑ๋ก์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, “์—ฐํ•„๊ณผ ์ง€์šฐ๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ํŽธ๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค” ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด์— ๋ถˆ๊ณผํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, “์—ฐํ•„์˜ ํ•œ์ชฝ ๋์— ์ง€์šฐ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์†ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธˆ์† ์ ‘ํ•ฉ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•œ ํ•„๊ธฐ๋„๊ตฌ”๋Š” ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ™”๋œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ›„์ž์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๊ธˆ์† ์ ‘ํ•ฉ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์ƒ์„ธ์„ค๋ช… ๋ฐ ๋„๋ฉด์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ถœ์› ๋œ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋Š” ํ˜•์‹์š”๊ฑด์„ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๋Š” ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ 1์ฐจ ์„œ๋ฅ˜ ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณ, ๋ฏธ ํŠนํ—ˆ์ฒญ์˜ ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ถ„์•ผ ์ „๋ฌธ ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๊ด€์—๊ฒŒ ์ „๋‹ฌ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๊ด€์€ ํŠนํ—ˆ์ฒญ์˜ ๋ฐ์ดํƒ€๋ฒ ์ด์Šค๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋™์ผํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ๋ฐœ๋ช…์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์ง€ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ , ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ํ†ต๊ณผ/๊ฑฐ์ ˆ ์—ฌ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ถœ์› ๋น„์šฉ

    ์ถœ์› ๋น„์šฉ์€ ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ฐœ๋ช…์˜ ๋ณต์žก์„ฑ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ทธ ์™ธ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์— ์˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•œ ๊ธฐ๊ณ„์žฅ์น˜ ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ถœ์›์„œ ์ž‘์„ฑ์—๋Š” $2,000-3000 ์ •๋„์˜ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ ๋น„์šฉ์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•˜์—ฌ, ํŠนํ—ˆ์ฒญ์— ์ง€๋ถˆํ•˜๋Š” ๊ด€๋‚ฉ๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ด€๋‚ฉ๋ฃŒ๋Š” ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ฐœ๋ช…๊ฐ€์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ถœ์›์—์„œ ๋ฐœํ–‰๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด $680 ์ •๋„๋กœ ๋Œ€ํญ ํ• ์ธ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ฐธ๊ณ ๋กœ, ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์ด์ต ์ฐฝ์ถœ์„ ์œ„ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ธฐ์—…์ ์œผ๋กœ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ถœ์› ๋Œ€ํ–‰์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ์—…์ฒด์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์ตœ์ดˆ ์ถœ์› ๋น„์šฉ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ๋ฐœํ–‰ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์—†๋Š” ์ถœ์›์„œ๋ฅผ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•œ ํ›„, 1์ฐจ ๊ฑฐ์ ˆ ํ›„ ๋Œ€์‘ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ , 2์ฐจ ๊ฑฐ์ ˆ ์‹œ์—๋Š” ํฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ข…์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ์˜ ์•…์งˆ์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ฐœ๋ช…๊ฐ€์˜ ๊ฟˆ์„ ์ขŒ์ ˆ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฏ€๋กœ ์ฃผ์˜ํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ์ธ๊ณผ ์ผํ•  ๋•Œ๋Š” ํ•ด๋‹น ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ/๋ณ€๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ (1) ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ์–ด๋А์ •๋„ ์ดํ•ด ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€, (2) ๊ทธ ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๊ณผ์˜ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์กฐ์–ธ ๋ฐ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋ฅผ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š”์ง€, (3) ์ถœ์› ๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ๋“ฑ๋ก ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ์ €์šธ์งˆ ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋น„์šฉ-ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์ œ์•ˆํ•˜๋Š” ์ง€ ๋“ฑ์„ ์ž˜ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํŠนํ—ˆ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜

    ํŠนํ—ˆ๋Š” ์ถœ์›์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์Œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์„ค์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์žฌ์‚ฐ๊ถŒ๊ณผ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋“ฑ๋ก ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ ๋ฐ ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ๋‚œ์ด๋„๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง€๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜์ฃ .

    ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ์ง€์šฐ๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฐ ์—ฐํ•„์„ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ถœ์›ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์—ฐํ•„์˜ ๊ธธ์ด, ๋‘๊ป˜, ์ง€์šฐ๊ฐœ์˜ ์„ฑ๋ถ„ ๋“ฑ์„ ํŠน์ •์ง€์–ด ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด, ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ํ†ต๊ณผ์˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์€ ๋†’์•„์ง€๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด์— ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐœํ–‰๋œ ํŠนํ—ˆ์˜ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ์ข์•„์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋˜๊ฒ ์ฃ .

    ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งํ•ด, ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์—…์ฒด์—์„œ ์—ฐํ•„์„ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๊ธธ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋” ๋‘๊ป๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ํ†ตํ•˜์—ฌ ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ถŒ์˜ ๋ณดํ˜ธ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋ฅผ ํ”ผํ•ด๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ, ํŠนํ—ˆ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋Š” ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ฒญ๊ตฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง์„ ์œ ์˜ํ•˜์„ธ์š”.

    ์ฒญ๊ตฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋Š” ์ตœ์ดˆ ์ถœ์› ์ดํ›„ ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๊ณ„์† ์ˆ˜์ •์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฏ€๋กœ, ์ถœ์›๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐœํ–‰๊นŒ์ง€ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ถŒ์˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฃผ์˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์šธ์ด์…”์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์ƒํ‘œ/๋กœ๊ณ ์— ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋‚˜?

    ์ƒํ‘œ/๋กœ๊ณ ์— ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋‚˜?

    ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ƒํ‘œ ๋“ฑ๋ก์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋กœ๊ณ  ์ œ์ž‘ ์‹œ, ์ƒํ‘œ/๋กœ๊ณ ์— ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋‚˜?

    ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์‹œ๋“ , ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์ถœ์‹œํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ•˜์‹œ๋“  ๊ฐ„์— ํšŒ์‚ฌ ๋กœ๊ณ ๋‚˜ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ƒํ‘œ ๋“ฑ๋ก์„ ํ•ด์•ผ๊ฒ ์ฃ .

    ์ƒํ‘œ ๋“ฑ๋ก์„ ์ „์ œ๋กœ ๋กœ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์ œ์ž‘ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ์ƒํ‘œ๋ฒ• ๊ด€๋ จ ์ด์Šˆ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์ค‘ ํ•œ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ณผ์—ฐ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ๋„ ๋กœ๊ณ ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋กœ ๋ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”๊ฐ€ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํŒจํ‚ค์ง• ์ƒ‰์ƒ๋„ ์ƒํ’ˆ์„ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„ํ•˜๋Š” ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ identity๋กœ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์š”์ฆ˜์—๋Š”, ์–ด๋–ค ๋กœ๊ณ ์ด๋“  ๊ฐ„์— ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉด ํŒจํ‚ค์ง• ์ƒ‰์ƒ์ด ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ƒ‰์ด ๋˜๋ฏ€๋กœ, ํŒจํ‚ค์ง• ์ƒ‰์ƒ๊ณผ ๋กœ๊ณ ์˜ ์กฐํ™”๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋งˆ๋ จ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํ—Œ๋ฐ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ƒํ‘œ๋กœ ๋“ฑ๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๋“œ๋ญ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋ฌผ๋ก  ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์˜ˆ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์Œ์˜์ด ๋ฐ˜์ „๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋Š” ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ด ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ๋กœ๊ณ ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด์•ผ ๊ฒ ์ฃ .

    ์ƒํ‘œ ์„ค๋ช…: ๊ธ€์”จ์™€ ๋ฌด๋Šฌ์— ์ƒ‰์ด ์—†๊ณ , ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์ƒ‰์— ์˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ˜•์ƒ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ฐธ๊ณ ๋กœ, ์œ„ ์ƒํ‘œ๋Š” ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์€ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ƒ‰์ƒ์€ ํŠน์ •ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งํ•ด, ๊ฒ€์€ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ๋ถ‰์€ ์ƒ‰์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋“ , ์€์ƒ‰์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋“  ๊ฐ„์— ์ƒํ‘œ ๋ณดํ˜ธ์—๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค๋Š”๊ฑฐ์ฃ .

    ๊ทธ ์™ธ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋Š” ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์„ ์ƒํ‘œ๋กœ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ƒํ‘œ์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ™œ์šฉ ๋ฉด์—์„œ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์†Œ์†ก – ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ

    ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์†Œ์†ก – ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ

    ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ถŒ์€ ๋ฐœ๋ช…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋…์ ์ ์ธ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋น„์‹ผ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋“œ๋Š” ํƒ“์—, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋Š”  ์ค‘์†Œ๊ธฐ์—… ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ํž˜๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ํŠนํ—ˆ์— ์˜๊ฑฐํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ž…๊ธˆ์ง€ ์กฐ์น˜ ๋ฐ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์†Œ์†ก์ด ๋งค์šฐ ์ผ๋ฐ˜ํ™” ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์–ด, ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ˆ˜์ž…๊ธˆ์ง€ ์กฐ์น˜๋‚˜ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์†Œ์†ก์˜ ์œ„ํ˜‘์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด ๋‚˜๋ ค๋ฉด?

    ํŠนํ—ˆ ์†Œ์†ก์€ ํ„ฐ๋ฌด๋‹ˆ ์—†์ด ๋น„์‹ผ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์•„์„œ, ์ค‘์†Œ๊ธฐ์—… ๋ฟ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ํฐ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ์†Œ์†ก์„ ํ”ผํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์€ ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๋ฒ•๋ฌดํŒ€์— ํŠนํ—ˆ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์„œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด, ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์ทจ๋“ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ค‘์†Œ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ๊ฒช์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ตœ์•…์˜ ์‚ฌํƒœ:

    • ๋‹น์‚ฌ์—์„œ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํƒ€ ์—…์ฒด๊ฐ€ ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ถŒ์„ ์ทจ๋“ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ •๋ง ์–ต์šธํ•˜๊ฒ ์ฃ .
    • ํƒ€์‚ฌ์— ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ถŒ์ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ์ฑ„ ์‹ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ์ ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋„ ์ƒ๊น๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    • ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๋ป”ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด๋‚˜ ์—…๊ณ„์—์„œ ๋ณดํŽธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ถŒ์„ ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ์—…์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์‹ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด๋‚˜ ์‹ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ด์Šˆ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ ์ƒ๋‹ด์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ™•์ธํ•˜์„ธ์š”!

  • ์ง€์žฌ๊ถŒ์ด๋ž€?

    ์ง€์žฌ๊ถŒ์ด๋ž€?

    ์˜์—… ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ƒํ™œํ˜• ๋ฐœ๋ช…๊นŒ์ง€

    ์˜์—… ๊ธฐ๋ฐ€ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ƒํ‘œ๊ถŒ, ํŠนํ—ˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ์˜์—…๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์ง€์ ์žฌ์‚ฐ๊ถŒ์€ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ •๋ณด์˜ ์œ ์ถœ์„ ์—ผ๋ คํ•˜์‹œ๋‚˜์š”? ์‚ฌ์—… ๊ธฐ๋ฐ€์„ ํƒ€์ธ์ด ์œ ์šฉํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋ฒ•์  ์กฐ์น˜๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋“ฏ์ด, ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด๋‚˜ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ์ œ์กฐ๋ฐฉ์‹ ๋“ฑ์„ ์‚ฌ์ „์— ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ถœ์›์„ ํ†ตํ•ด์„œ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐœํ•œ ์ƒํ™œํ˜• ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ฐœ๋ช…๋„ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ง€์žฌ๊ถŒ: ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋ฐ ์ƒํ‘œ

    ์ž์œ  ์‹œ์žฅ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ, ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ๋ฐœ๋ช…์ด๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ๊ณ ์•ˆ ๋“ฑ์„ ๋‚จ์ด ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฒ ๊ปด์“ธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ณตํ‰์น˜ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ฒ ์ฃ . ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋น„๋ฐ€์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์—… ๊ธฐ๋ฐ€์€ ํƒ€์ธ์ด ๋ถ€์ •ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ทจ๋“ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋ฒ•์ด ์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋”๊ตฐ๋‹ค๋‚˜, ํŠนํ—ˆ๋‚˜ ์ƒํ‘œ๊ถŒ์˜ ๋“ฑ๋ก์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ๋ฌดํ˜• ์˜์—… ์ž์‚ฐ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ํ–ฅ์ƒ ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฌ์‹คํ•œ ์‚ฌ์—…์ฒด๋กœ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์—๋Š” ์ƒํ‘œ๊ถŒ ๋“ฑ๋ก๊ณผ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ถœ์›์€ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์›์ฒœ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐœ์ƒ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ๊ฐœ์„  ๋“ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ถŒ์„ ์ทจ๋“ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ถŒ์„ ์ทจ๋“ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ฐœ๋ช…์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์•ฝ 20๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋…์ ๊ถŒ์ด ๋ณด์žฅ๋˜์–ด ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์ด์ „์ด๋‚˜ ๋ผ์ด์„ผ์Šค๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ž…์˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ๋„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ์น˜ํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”.

    ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ด์œ ๋กœ ์ƒํ‘œ๊ถŒ ๋“ฑ๋ก์ด๋‚˜ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ถœ์›์„ ๋ฏธ๋ฃจ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒํ‘œ๊ถŒ์€ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ์˜์—… ๋ฒ”์œ„ ๋‚ด์—์„œ๋งŒ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋ฏ€๋กœ, ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ๋ชจ๋ฐฉ ์—…์ฒด์— ๋นผ์•—๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์‰ฝ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ถŒ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์ถœ์› ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•ด ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋„, ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ถŒ ์นจํ•ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋” ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋“ฑ๋ก์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ณต๊ณ ํžˆ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์›”๋งˆํŠธ์˜ ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ง„ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ

    ์›”๋งˆํŠธ์˜ ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ง„ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ

    ์•„๋งˆ์กด์ด ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ์˜ ์ œ์™•์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฐ๋ฆผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, 2016๋…„ ๋งค์ถœ์•ก์„ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์—ฐ๋งค์ถœ ์•ฝ 3,628์–ต๋ถˆ์˜ ์›”๋งˆํŠธ๋Š” ์•ฝ 770์–ต๋ถˆ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•œ ์•„๋งˆ์กด์˜ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋‹ค์„ฏ๋ฐฐ์— ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์ž๋ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฆ„๋งŒ ๋“ค์–ด๋„ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋„๋•์ผ ๋งŒํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์—…์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๋น„ํ•œ ์˜คํ”„๋ผ์ธ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ๊ฑฐ๋‘” ์œ ์˜๋ฏธํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ด์ฃ .

    ์›”๋งˆํŠธ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๋„๋Œ€์ฒด ์–ด๋–ค ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์„œ (1) ์›”๋งˆํŠธ ์Šคํ† ์–ด์™€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ๋””์Šค์นด์šดํŠธ ์Šคํ† ์–ด ํƒ€๊ฒŸ (์•ฝ 695์–ต๋ถˆ) ๊ณผ (2) ์›”๋งˆํŠธ์˜ ์ƒ˜์Šคํด๋Ÿฝ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ํšŒ์›์ œ ์Šคํ† ์–ด ์ฝ”์ŠคํŠธ์ฝ” (์•ฝ 858์–ต๋ถˆ) ์˜ ๋งค์ถœ์„ ํ•ฉ์ณ๋„ ๋ฏธ์น˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ๋†’์€ ๋งค์ถœ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?

    ์ž˜ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ๊นŒ๋‹ค๋กญ๊ธฐ๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ์„ ์ •๊ณผ ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜ ๋ฐ ์ ํฌ์˜ ์šด์˜, ๋” ๋‚ฎ์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ์†Œ๋น„์ž์—๊ฒŒ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ์ค€๋‹ค๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ์—… ์šด์˜ ์ฒ ํ•™ ๋“ฑ์˜ ๋งŽ์€ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์ด ์›”๋งˆํŠธ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์›”๋งˆํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”์ฝ”๋“œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์— ํฐ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์•„์‹œ๋Š” ๋ถ„์€ ์˜์™ธ๋กœ ์ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋ฐ”์ฝ”๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌผํ’ˆ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์— ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋งŽ์€ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์ ˆ์•ฝํ•˜๋Š”์ง€๋Š” ๋ฐ”์ฝ”๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋˜ ์‹œ์ ˆ์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค์€ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๊ณต๊ฐํ•˜์‹ค ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”์ฝ”๋“œ๋กœ ํ‘œ์‹œ๋˜๋Š” ํ‘œ์ค€ํ™”๋œ UPC๋ฅผ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ์— ๋„์ž…ํ•œ ์›”๋งˆํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ๋”๋ผ๋ฉด, ๋ฐ”์ฝ”๋“œ ๋˜ํ•œ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ธ๋ฒคํ† ๋ฆฌ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ์ค‘์˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋ €์„์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์ผ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋กœ ์›”๋งˆํŠธ๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์—๊ฒŒ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํƒœ๊ทธ (RFID) ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฌผํ’ˆ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ํ‘œ์‹œํ•˜๋„๋ก ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”์ฝ”๋“œ ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ•œ ๋‹จ๊ณ„ ์ง„๋ณดํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฌด์„  ํ†ต์‹ ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํƒœ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์˜ ๊ฐœ์„  ๋ฟ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋งค์žฅ ๋‚ด ์ง„์—ด ์ƒํ’ˆ์˜ ์ˆ˜๋Ÿ‰๋„ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋ฐ”์ฝ”๋“œ๋Š” ์›”๋งˆํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํƒœ๊ทธ๋„ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€๋กœ, ์›”๋งˆํŠธ๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๋œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„ ๋“ค์ด๊ณ  ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์ž…์žฅ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋„ ๊ทธ๋Ÿด ๊ฒƒ์ด, ํ‘œ์ค€ํ™” ๋ฐ ๊ทœ๊ฒฉํ™”๊ฐ€ ๊ณง ๋ฐ”๋กœ ํšจ์œจ๊ณผ ๋น„์šฉ์ ˆ๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€๋Š” ์œ ํ†ต์—…๊ณ„์˜ ํŠน์„ฑ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋ฉด ๋…์ž์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐํƒ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด, ํƒ€ ์—…์ฒด์™€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ด์น˜์— ๋งž์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํ—Œ๋ฐ ์›”๋งˆํŠธ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡๋…„ ๊ฐ„ ๊ทธ 50์—ฌ๋…„ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์— ์œ ๋ž˜ ์—†์ด ํŠนํ—ˆ ํ™•๋ณด์— ์—ด์„ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํŠนํ—ˆ ๊ณต๊ฐœ์ผ์„ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ, 2012-13๋…„ ์‚ฌ์ด 2๋…„ ๊ฐ„ ๋‹จ 26๊ฑด์— ๊ทธ์น˜๋˜ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ถœ์›์ด ์ตœ๊ทผ 2๋…„ (2016-17๋…„) ์‚ฌ์ด์—๋Š” 201๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚ฌ์ฃ . ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ “๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๋…์ ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋ฒ•์  ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ”์ธ ์ ์„ ๊ฐ์•ˆํ•  ๋•Œ, ์˜ˆ์ƒ์„ ๋’ค์—Ž๋Š” ํ–‰๋ณด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์˜ˆ์ƒ ๋ฐ–์˜ ์›€์ง์ž„์€ ํŠนํ—ˆ์˜ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์‚ดํŽด ๋ณด๋ฉด ์„ค๋ช…์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ์˜ˆ๋กœ 2016๋…„์— ๋“ฑ๋ก๋œ ์›”๋งˆํŠธ์˜ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ธ U.S. Patent No. 9,470,532 ๋Š” ์†Œ๋น„์ž๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์  ์•ˆ์—์„œ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์„ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋„์™€์ฃผ๋Š” ๋„ค๋น„๊ฒŒ์ด์…˜ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋…์ ์ ์ธ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ด ๋„ค๋น„๊ฒŒ์ด์…˜ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์€ (1) ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด ๋ชจ๋ฐ”์ผ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํ’ˆ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ž…๋ ฅํ•˜๋ฉด (2) ํ˜„์žฌ ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ๋งค์žฅ์˜ ์•ˆ๋‚ด๋„ ์œ„์— ์ƒํ’ˆ์˜ ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ํ‘œ์‹œํ•ด ์ฃผ๊ณ , (3) ์ด๋™ ๊ฒฝ๋กœ ์ƒ์— ์ถ”์ฒœ ์ƒํ’ˆ์˜ ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ํ‘œ์‹œํ•˜์—ฌ ์ƒํ’ˆ์˜ ๋น„๊ต์™€ ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฅผ ๋•์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ์ƒ์šฉํ™” ๋˜๋ฉด ๋„์›€์„ ์ค„ ์ง์›์„ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์›”๋งˆํŠธ์—์„œ์˜ ์‡ผํ•‘์ด ํ•œ์ธต ํŽธ๋ฆฌํ•ด ์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ—Œ๋ฐ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ณดํŽธํ™”๋œ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ๊ณผ ๋งค์žฅ์˜ ์ธ๋ฒคํ† ๋ฆฌ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ์ ‘๋ชฉํ•˜๋ฉด ์ค‘์†Œ ๋งค์žฅ์—์„œ๋„ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋„์ž…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์„œ๋น„์Šค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ํ–ฅํ›„ ์•ฝ 20๋…„๊ฐ„ ์›”๋งˆํŠธ ์ด์™ธ์˜ ์—…์ฒด๋Š” ์ด์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์˜ ๋„์ž…์„ ๋ฏธ๋ฃจ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ผ์ด์„ผ์Šค๋ฅผ ์–ป์–ด ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๊ทธ ์™ธ์—๋„ ๋‚˜์ด์ œํ•œ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์„ ์‚ด ๋•Œ ๋ชจ๋ฐ”์ผ ์•ฑ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ์˜ ๋‚˜์ด๋ฅผ ์ธ์ฆํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ (U.S. Pat. No. 9,665,896) ์ด๋‚˜ ๋งค์žฅ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์•ฑ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์‡ผํ•‘์นดํŠธ๋ฅผ ํ˜ธ์ถœํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ทธ ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜์—ฌ ์‡ผํ•‘์นดํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ (U.S. Pat. Application No. 6,619,546) ๋“ฑ, ์›”๋งˆํŠธ์˜ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋ฉด ์‹ฌ์˜คํ•œ ๊ณผํ•™์  ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ์ด๋ผ๊ธฐ ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ์‡ผํ•‘๊ฐ์˜ ํŽธ์˜๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋ฐฐ๋ ค์— ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋Š” ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท๊ณผ ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ชจ๋ฐ”์ผ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์˜ ๋ณด๊ธ‰ ์—†์ด๋Š” ๊ณต์ƒ์— ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด์ œ๋Š” ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์žฅ์น˜๋‚˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์ธํ”„๋ผ ์—†์ด๋„ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ํ˜„์‹คํ™” ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์›”๋งˆํŠธ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋ฅผ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋กœ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ๋””์ž์ธ์ด๋‚˜ ํฌ์žฅ์— ๊ด€๋ จํ•œ ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•œ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋ถ€ํ„ฐ, ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ์ง„์—ด๊ณผ ๋ฐฐ์น˜, ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์œ ์น˜ ๋ฐ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด ๋“ฑ ๋‚จ๋“ค์ด ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ด๋“  ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋“ฑ๋ก์˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๋œ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ , ํƒ€ ์—…์ฒด์˜ ๋ฌด๋ถ„๋ณ„ํ•œ ๋„์šฉ์„ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ •๋ง ํš๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด์ž„์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๋‚จ๋“ค๋ณด๋‹ค ํ•œ๋ฐœ ์•ž์„œ ์›€์ง์ด๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ทธ์น˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์—์„œ ๋งŽ์ด ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ์—๋Š” ๋จผ์ € ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๊ฐ€ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ํŠนํ—ˆ๋กœ ๋ฐœ์ „ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€๋ฅผ ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜๊ณ , ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ๊ณผ ํ•„์š”์— ๋งž๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ์„ ์ ์ ˆํžˆ ์„ ํƒํ•˜์—ฌ, ๋ฒ•์  ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ทจ๋“์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • The Hidden Strength of Walmart

    The Hidden Strength of Walmart

    Although Amazon is reigning in the online retail market, if you compare the annual retail sales figures of 2016, Walmart’s $363 billion in annual revenue overshadowed Amazon’s $77 billion. This is a meaningful success in the offline retail market where many retail giants are fiercely competing.

    What in the earth makes Walmart to score such a high annual sales revenue which is more than twice the combined number of (a) $70 billion by Target, a discount store like Walmart and (b) $86 billion by Costco, a membership store like Sam’s Club by Walmart?

    Walmart is well known for its rigorous standard for choosing suppliers, efficient logistics and store management, and a simple but effective business principle of serving the customers with a lower price, among others, that are all contributing to the success of Walmart.
    Surprisingly, it is a less known fact that Walmart played a major role in the retail adoption of barcode technology.

    Anyone who remembers the days when barcodes did not exist would easily appreciate how much the barcode technology saves time and effort in sales of goods. Without the Universal Product Code (“UPC”) which was introduced to the retail business by Walmart, barcode could have been just a type of machine-readable code for a proprietary computer system.
    In parallel, Walmart recently began to require all suppliers to use radio frequency identification (“RFID”) smart tags to display product information on their shipment. Smart tags convey product information over the air more efficiently than barcodes and allegedly improves the flow of the logistics as well as the inventory management in the retail stores.
    Of course, barcode is not invented by Walmart. Just like smart tags, Walmart is on the side of adopting and utilizing the technology developed by a third party. That is not a surprise considering that standardization leads to cost savings for the entire retail industry and that an exclusive technology developed and adopted by a retailer would not likely benefit the entity in the market competition.

    Nevertheless, Walmart is allocating a lot of resources in procuring patents, which is unprecedented in its 50 years of history.

    Based on the publication date of patent applications, Walmart applied for only 26 patents for the two-year period from 2012 to 2013 whereas it already applied for 201 patents from 2016 to date. Simply put, patent is a legal right to an exclusive use of a technology invented independently, so the sudden increase goes against the very idea of standardization.

    The phenomenon can be understood by taking a closer look at Walmart’s patents. For an example, one of the Walmart’s patents issued in 2017, the U.S. Patent No. 9,470,532, claims an exclusive right to a navigation system that help customers to find goods in a store.

    This navigation system provides an assistance to shoppers by (1) allowing customers to input product information they are searching via mobile devices; (2) displaying the location of the product on a store map; and (3) marking locations of comparable or associated goods on their route.
    Once this technology is commercialized, Walmart could make up for its shortage in the staff on the retail floor, improving shopping experience significantly. That is not to say that this kind of service requires an investment in advanced technology as it only requires common smartphones and inventory management applications readily available to small and midsize businesses. Notwithstanding, for about 20 years, any business who wants to adopt the navigation system in their store would have to obtain license from Walmart or just sit and wait till the patent expires.

    There are other examples such as a mobile app validating the age of purchasers of age-restricted items (U.S. Pat. No. 9,665,896) and a system delivering shopping carts upon the request by shoppers via a mobile app (U.S. Pat. Application No. 6,619,546). In sum, Walmart patents of recent involve not the profound principles of science but ideas for a better shopping experience.

    These ideas could have been the technology of the future, but with the internet and personal mobile devices, you can bring them to life without dedicated devices or extra infrastructure. Walmart is now expanding its patent portfolio to exclude others from using some of them.

    In fact, from a design or packaging idea to a unique placement of goods in retail spaces and a promotional or loyalty program ideas, if it is noble, it has a potential to be patented. Once patented, you can have an edge in retail services and prevent others from misappropriating your own idea.

    Often an amazing and groundbreaking idea becomes a mundane thing because everybody is copying it so fast. When you come up with a great idea, you should (1) determine whether the idea can develop into an effective and financially valuable patent, (2) find a way to protect the idea appropriately, and (3) acquire a legal right that can ensure a lasting success.

  • Amazon Suggests Branding for All

    Amazon Suggests Branding for All

    Approaching the 2017 holiday shopping season, the e-commerce giant Amazon’s stock price is heading to $1,200. Amazon.com, often quoted as “The Everything Store”, reportedly accounts for 46% of the entire online retail sales.

    An interesting thing about shopping at Amazon.com is that you do not particularly notice the items sold directly by Amazon. All items sold at Amazon receive the same treatment, and the same format applies to all product pages. The product order is determined by objective statistics like sales, rating, and price. Quite often, items sold by third-party sellers are bestsellers or Amazon’s Choice.

    As such, consumers can gather reliable product information and compare them conveniently, finding little reason to go another place to shop. In addition, since all the retailers who sell identical products are competing for the lowest price in real time, you will likely find a great deal.

    On the other hand, the price competition among online retailers is not the merriest news for the manufacturers and offline retailers. Even worse, if a product sells well, then there appear hordes of copycats selling similar products with look-alike photos and descriptions. That certainly induces angry moments for companies who went all the way to market a new product.

    In the Online Space, Branding is Especially Important.

    Consumers do not possess means to tell whether an article was manufactured in the same production line or not, so they refer to brand labels. Without branding, there is no way to distinguish your products from others’ similar goods. Your investment on quality assurance and customer service will be rewarded only if you have a brand name that consumers remember.

    For this reason, retailers let alone manufactures and wholesalers often create their own brands and sell branded items at Amazon.com. Especially, standardized products with little variation and goods that do not require special manufacturing technique or know-hows often get branded by retailers.

    Amazon recognized the importance of branding early on and created “Amazon Brand Registry” to help companies to protect their brands. Once registered, the companies who own brands can efficiently monitor and control products marked with their brand names and logos; now Amazon is requiring brand owners to register their brands with the United States Patent and Trademark Office first, for which I get an increased number of inquiries.

    Even if you sell only via offline channels, you need a U.S. trademark registration to protect your names in the online space. For example, if a retailer opens an Amazon Seller account in a name well known as a local beauty supply store, consumers in the local area may make online purchases relying on the local retail store’s good will. This is an outright trademark infringement, but without a trademark registration you may not stop them easily.

    Trademark registration is a simple but important legal process.

    If you understand the process and prepare accordingly, you can greatly reduce the cost of registration. You may visit the USPTO website to learn about the process. For your information, I estimated the typical cost and time required for the following hypothetical situations.

    1. If you are registering a mark that is already in use,
    • You need one or two days to gather relevant information and evidences of your use. Most of all, you need pictures of your product, advertisements, and logo image, among others, and you need to confirm that the mark meets legal requirements.
    • Filling out an application form takes only minutes (up to an hour for a novice applicant) using the Trademark Electronic Application System by the USPTO for free1. You can use your credit card to pay online for the application fees, which are around $250 in most cases.
    • In three to four months, the examination begins, and in a month your trademark can be officially registered.
    1. If you are registering a mark that you intend to use in the future,
    • Although the process is not too different, you probably want to consult a professional2 about the appropriateness of your intended mark i.e. whether the mark will be legally enforceable. A short consultation that costs only 20 minutes of your (and your attorney’s) time can be extremely productive.
    • You need to provide an evidence of your actual use within a required period, which is usually 6 months, to complete the registration process.
    1. If you already have a USPTO registered trademark,
    • Trademark registration must be renewed, but many trademark owners fail to do maintenance and end up abandoning their rights.
    • Regardless of a continued use, the registration can be cancelled unless you pay maintenance fees (from $100 to $425) at 5-10 years interval as prescribed by the USPTO.

    Now, small to mid-size retailers can reach the national market thanks to the advancement of logistics and order fulfilment services. This also means even if you are focusing on a local market, you need to compete with retailers and wholesalers across the country.

    If you have not registered your trademark or only registered with the state government, you should take steps to protect your brand and your customer’s trust with a USPTO trademark registration.

    1. Online trademark registration websites charge around $50 fees for online filing, but anyone can use the USPTO online application system online for free. โ†ฉ๏ธŽ
    2. Most Intellectual Property (IP) attorneys can provide competent consultation on trademark issues. โ†ฉ๏ธŽ
  • ์•„๋งˆ์กด์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ณธ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ

    ์•„๋งˆ์กด์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ณธ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ

    ์—ฐ๋ง ํ• ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ด ์‹œ์ฆŒ์„ ๋งž์•„ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ ์ตœ๊ฐ•์ž๋กœ ๊ผฝํžˆ๋Š” ์•„๋งˆ์กด์˜ ์ฃผ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ $1,200 ๊ณ ์ง€๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋‹ฌ๋ ค ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. “The Everything Store”๋กœ ํ†ตํ•˜๋Š” ์•„๋งˆ์กด์€ ๋งค์ถœ ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ 46%๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์ฃ .

    ์•„๋งˆ์กด์—์„œ ์‡ผํ•‘์„ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ์ ์€ ์•„๋งˆ์กด์ด ์ง์ ‘ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒํ’ˆ์ด ํŠน๋ณ„ํžˆ ๋ˆˆ์— ๋„์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ์ƒํ’ˆ์ด ๋™์ผํ•œ ํฌ๋งท์œผ๋กœ ์†Œ๊ฐœ๋  ๋ฟ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰, ํ‰์ , ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋“ฑ์˜ ๊ฐ๊ด€์ ์ธ ์ง€ํ‘œ ์ˆœ์œผ๋กœ ๋…ธ์ถœ๋˜๋ฏ€๋กœ, ํƒ€ ์†Œ๋งค์ƒ (third-party sellers)์ด ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ์…€๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ถ”์ฒœ์ƒํ’ˆ(Amazon’s Choice)์œผ๋กœ ์†Œ๊ฐœ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ด๋ ‡๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š” ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํ’ˆ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋น„๊ตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‡ผํ•‘๋ชฐ์„ ์ฐพ์„ ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ์ ์–ด ์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๋™์ผํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜ ๋งŽ์€ ์†Œ๋งค์ƒ๋“ค์ด ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด ์ข‹์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์„ ์‚ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ๋„ ๋†’์ฃ .

    ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด์— ์ œ์กฐ์—…์ฒด๋‚˜ ์˜คํ”„๋ผ์ธ ํŒ๋งค์ž ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š” ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์ƒ์˜ ์ตœ์ €๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์€ ๋‹ฌ๊ฐ‘์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์†Œ์‹์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ž˜ ํŒ”๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ๋А๋‚Œ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„๊ณผ ์„ค๋ช…์„ ์ฒจ๋ถ€ํ•œ ์œ ์‚ฌ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด ์šฐํ›„์ฃฝ์ˆœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋„ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œํ’ˆ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์ถœ์‹œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งŽ์€ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๋“ค์ด๋Š” ์—…์ฒด ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ถ„ํ†ต์ด ํ„ฐ์ง€๋Š” ์ผ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ย 

    ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์—์„œ๋Š” ํŠนํžˆ ์ƒํ‘œ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์ด ๋ถ€๊ฐ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋˜‘๊ฐ™์€ ๊ณต์žฅ์—์„œ ๋งŒ๋“  ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด๋ผ๋„ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์€ ์•Œ ๊ธธ์ด ์—†์œผ๋ฏ€๋กœ, ๊ตฌ์ž… ์‹œ ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์—ญ์‹œ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ช…์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋”ฉ ์—†์ด๋Š” ์œ ์‚ฌ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ณผ์˜ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹น์—ฐํ•˜๊ณ , ์ฒ ์ €ํ•œ ํ’ˆ์งˆ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์‚ฌํ›„ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์‹ ์šฉ์„ ์Œ“๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋”ฉ ์—†์ด๋Š” ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒ ์ฃ .

    ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์š”์ฆ˜์€ ์ œ์กฐ์—…์ฒด๋‚˜ ๋„๋งค์ƒ ๋ฟ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์†Œ๋งค์ƒ๋„ ์ž์ฒด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋”ฉ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์•„๋งˆ์กด์— ์ž…์ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ์ž์ฃผ ๋ˆˆ์— ๋•๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒํ’ˆ์ด ํš์ผํ™”, ๊ทœ๊ฒฉํ™” ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ œ์กฐ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด๋‚˜ ๋…ธํ•˜์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋”ฑํžˆ ์—†๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋Š” ํŠนํžˆ ๊ทธ๋ ‡์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์•„๋งˆ์กด์—์„œ๋„ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ ์ธ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ , “Amazon Brand Registry” (์•„๋งˆ์กด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๋ ˆ์ง€์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ)๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๊ฐ ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์˜ ์ƒํ‘œ๊ถŒ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๋•๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ ˆ์ง€์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ์— ๋“ฑ๋กํ•œ ์—…์ฒด๋Š” ์•„๋งˆ์กด์—์„œ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๋Š” ์ž์‚ฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ํšจ์œจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ ๋“ฑ๋ก ์š”๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธํŠนํ—ˆ์ฒญ ์ƒํ‘œ ๋“ฑ๋ก์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์ ธ์„œ ์ด์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ๋ฌธ์˜๊ฐ€ ๋Š˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์˜คํ”„๋ผ์ธ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ์˜์—…ํ•˜๋Š” ์—…์ฒด๋„ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์—์„œ์˜ ์‹ ์šฉ์„ ์ง€์ผœ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฏธํŠนํ—ˆ์ฒญ ์ƒํ‘œ ๋“ฑ๋ก์€ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ์•„๋งˆ์กด์— ์ž…์ ํ•œ ํƒ€ ์†Œ๋งค์ƒ์ด ์–ด๋А ์œ ๋ช… ์˜คํ”„๋ผ์ธ ์†Œ๋งค์ ์˜ ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ํ•ด๋‹น ์˜คํ”„๋ผ์ธ ์†Œ๋งค์ ์˜ ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฅผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ์ฃ . ์ด๋Š” ๋ช…๋ฐฑํ•œ ์ƒํ‘œ ๋„์šฉ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์ƒํ‘œ ๋“ฑ๋ก ์—†์ด๋Š” ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ๋Œ€์ฒ˜๋ฒ•์ด ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ƒํ‘œ๋“ฑ๋ก์€ ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ฒ•์  ์ ˆ์ฐจ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋“ฑ๋ก ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ผผ๊ผผํžˆ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋น„์šฉ ์ง€์ถœ์„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์ค„์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ๊ด€๋ จ ์ •๋ณด๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธํŠนํ—ˆ์ฒญ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์— ๋น„๊ต์  ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์†Œ๊ฐœ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ๊ณ ๋กœ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•ด ๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ์†Œ์š”๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์„ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ด ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    1. ์ด๋ฏธ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ ์ด๋ฆ„์ด๋‚˜ ๋กœ๊ณ  ๋“ฑ์„ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ
    • ๊ด€๋ จ ์ •๋ณด ์ˆ˜์ง‘ ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์ฆ๋น™ ์ค€๋น„์— 1-2์ผ. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ œํ’ˆ ์‚ฌ์ง„์ด๋‚˜ ๊ด‘๊ณ  ๋‚ด์šฉ, ๋กœ๊ณ  ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ๋“ฑ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ƒํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒ•์  ์š”๊ฑด์„ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ๋“ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ™•์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    • ์‹ค์ œ ์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ ์ž‘์„ฑ์€ ๋ฏธํŠนํ—ˆ์ฒญ์˜ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ1์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์‹ ์ฒญ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ (USPTO TEAS)๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•ด ์ดˆ๋ณด์ž๋„ ์•ฝ 1์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ •๋„๋ฉด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๋Š” ์‹ ์šฉ์นด๋“œ ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ‰์‹œ ๊ฒฐ์ œ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ณดํ†ต $250 ๋‚ด์™ธ์˜ ์‹ ์ฒญ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    • 3-4๊ฐœ์›” ์ด๋‚ด์— ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ณ , ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ํ›„ ์•ฝ 1๊ฐœ์›”์ด๋ฉด ๋“ฑ๋ก์ด ์™„๋ฃŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    1. ํ–ฅํ›„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ
    • ์œ„์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์™€ ํฐ ์ฐจ์ด๋Š” ์—†์ง€๋งŒ, ์ƒํ‘œ์˜ ๊ธฐ์•ˆ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์—์„œ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์™€ ์ƒ๋‹ด์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ–‰์‚ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด๋ฆ„(ํ˜น์€ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€)์ธ์ง€ ํ™•์ธ2ํ•˜๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ†ต์ƒ 20์—ฌ๋ถ„ ๋‚ด์™ธ์˜ ์ƒ๋‹ด์œผ๋กœ๋„ ํฐ ๋„์›€์„ ์–ป์œผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    • ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ์ง„ํ–‰ ํ›„ ์•ฝ 6๊ฐœ์›” ์ด๋‚ด์— ์ƒํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ฆ๋น™์„ ์ œ์ถœํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋“ฑ๋ก์ด ์™„๋ฃŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    1. ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ฏธํŠนํ—ˆ์ฒญ (USPTO) ๋“ฑ๋ก์„ ๋งˆ์นœ ์ƒํ‘œ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ
    • ์ƒํ‘œ ๋“ฑ๋ก์€ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐฑ์‹ ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ๋ฐ, ์ด ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์•Œ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•ด ์ƒํ‘œ ๋“ฑ๋ก์ด ์ทจ์†Œ๋˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ก€๊ฐ€ ๋นˆ๋ฒˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์ƒ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    • ์ƒํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋”๋ผ๋„, ์ผ์ • ์ฃผ๊ธฐ(5-10๋…„)๋กœ ์ผ์ •์•ก์˜ ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ($100-$425 ๋‚ด์™ธ์˜ ํŠนํ—ˆ์ฒญ ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ)๋ฅผ ๋‚ฉ๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋“ฑ๋ก์„ ๊ฐฑ์‹ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ๊ทธ ๋ฒ•์  ํšจ๋ ฅ์„ ์žƒ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์•„๋งˆ์กด์„ ํ•„๋‘๋กœ ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ํŒ๋งค ๋ฐ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„œ๋น„์Šค ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์˜ ํ™œ์•ฝ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์ œ ์ž‘์€ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์†Œ๋งค์ƒ๋„ ๋ฏธ ์ „์—ญ์˜ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜์—…์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ณ , ์—ญ์œผ๋กœ ๋งํ•˜์ž๋ฉด ํ•œ ์ง€์—ญ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ–ˆ๋˜ ํŒ๋งค์ƒ๋„ ์ด์ œ๋Š” ๋ฏธ ์ „์—ญ์˜ ๋„์†Œ๋งค์ƒ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•ด์•ผ๋งŒ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํ˜น ์•„์ง๊นŒ์ง€ ์ƒํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ์…จ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์˜์—… ์ค‘์ธ ์ง€์—ญ์—๋งŒ ์ƒํ‘œ ๋“ฑ๋กํ•˜์…จ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ํŠนํ—ˆ์ฒญ ์ƒํ‘œ ๋“ฑ๋ก์„ ํ†ตํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ์Œ“์•„ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ์‹  ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜์™€ ์‹ ์šฉ์„ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    1. ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ƒํ‘œ๋“ฑ๋ก ๋Œ€ํ–‰ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์—์„œ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒํ‘œ ๋“ฑ๋ก์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉฐ, $50 ์ •๋„์˜ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋น„๋ฅผ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ ๋ฏธํŠนํ—ˆ์ฒญ ์ „์ž์‹ ์ฒญ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ์ด์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ†ฉ๏ธŽ
    2. ์ƒํ‘œ๊ถŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „๋ฌธ์ ์ธ ์ƒ๋‹ด์„ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ง€์ ์žฌ์‚ฐ๊ถŒ ์ „๋ฌธ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„๊ฐ€์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ†ฉ๏ธŽ
  • Google vs. Uber: Case Study for the Beauty Suppliers

    Google vs. Uber: Case Study for the Beauty Suppliers

    Lately, the automotive industry is under a fierce competition for developing autonomous (self-driving) vehicles. Automotive companies around the world, including GM and Ford of North America; Daimler, BMW, VW Group of Europe; Toyota of Japan; and Hyundai Automotive Group of South Korea, are just a few examples, and technological innovations to enable autonomous vehicles are brought about in Silicon Valley as well.

    Hence, it is not a surprise that the intellectual property (“IP”) lawsuit between Google and Uber, who are leading the research and development of autonomous vehicles in Silicon Valley, caught the public’s attention. Google, through Waymo (an autonomous car development company owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc.), alleged that a former engineer of Google stole a large amount of computer files containing trade secrets and illegally provided them to Uber.

    Stealing technologies, know-hows, and customer information from competitors through industrial espionage or other illegal means are hardly new. However, the scope and extent of the damages that can be done by those illegal activities are ever increasing due to the advancement of data storage technology. News coverage on the issue is somehow limited to high-tech espionage across the borders like the semiconductor trade secrets sold to China, but the problem is not limited to big corporations or within the high-tech industry.

    For example, a design and specification of a new product, customer information, or production or purchasing information can be stored in a USB thumb drive and handed over to a competing business, which results in a substantial profit loss to a company or business owner. It is typical to have a non-disclosure agreement with employees for a relatively large company, but even without a non-disclosure, confidential information that has an economic value of its own can be protected by the trade secret law.

    Last year, the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 was enacted by the federal government, which is likely to bring many positive changes.

    An example of such change is the lawsuit between Google and Uber. This lawsuit is one of the first trade secret infringement lawsuits brought under the federal law and will likely become a precedent that could affect many cases to follow if it goes to the trial. Here comes the summary of the case.

    1. First, Google learned from its supplier that Uber’s LiDAR design is strikingly similar to Google’s patented technology. Autonomous vehicles recognize their surroundings through a LiDAR, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging.
    2. Google secured a forensic evidence that a former engineer, who now works at Uber, downloaded a large quantity of computer files related to the LiDAR technology while he was still working at Google.
    3. In response, Uber claimed that it developed its LiDAR technology independently, but without a hard evidence to support the claim, the evidences are in favor of Google’s claim of trade secret infringement.

    If Google prevails in the lawsuit, the court may issue an injunction that forbids Uber from utilizing the LiDAR technology, which would likely hamper Uber’s development of a self-driving car. Considering the economic value of the LiDAR technology, which is said to be more than a billion dollars, the monetary damages can be a considerable burden to Uber. In addition, depending on the results of a separate criminal trial, the engineer can face an imprisonment up to ten years or heavy fines.

    Now, what would be the lesson for the beauty supply industry that can be learned from the Google vs. Uber case? You look at IP litigations worth billions of dollars or the litigation cost over millions of dollars let alone the cost of security systems to protect trade secrets, and you quite reasonably think you cannot afford a trade secret. Nevertheless, there are measures you can take to have your sensitive information protected as a trade secret at almost no cost.

    First, you need a thoughtfully drafted confidentiality policy such as “the customer list and the pricing information of products are confidential and must be disclosed only to the owner and the manager during two years from the creation of the relevant information.” You will not prevail at the court with an overbroad policy statement like “everything related to the business is confidential.” By simply placing a policy statement on the first page (or header/footer) of relevant documents, you can officially set forth the policy.

    Second, work computers and storage devices such as laptops and flash drives must be owned by the company, and you should restrict the use of employeesโ€™ personal devices or accounts to access or store company data. Without such policy, it would be hard to pinpoint the records of access and download related to illegal activities.

    Third, when you notice a breach of confidential information, you should preserve the evidence and report to the authority as quickly as possible. (Reference: Reporting Intellectual Property Crime) You will need to file a civil action against the perpetrator for an injunction or to claim monetary damages, but individuals and organizations who misappropriate a trade secret with a criminal intent are also subject to criminal penalties.

    It is already proven by the experience of many companies and security experts that you can greatly reduce a trade secret infringement by educating employees about the seriousness of the offense and spending a reasonable time and effort to secure your confidential information.