Showing posts with label Patent Litigation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patent Litigation. Show all posts

Friday, September 12, 2025

De Facto Standard Patent Strategies and the Pitfalls of ‘Royalty-Free’: Lessons from Tesla, Qualcomm, and Google

 

That ‘Royalty-Free’ Gift… Can You Really Trust It? From Bluetooth to EV charging standards, we're diving into the complex world of patents and the calculated corporate strategies hidden behind the sweet promise of “free.” This article will give you a sharper eye for seeing what’s really going on in tech.

Hey there! In the world of tech, the term ‘Royalty-Free’ sounds pretty appealing, right? It feels like a free gift, and since it’s used in everyday things like Bluetooth, USB, and WebRTC, you might think you can use it without a second thought.

But is that really the case? Today, we’re going to dig into the complex issues lurking behind that attractive ‘royalty-free’ sign—namely, intellectual property (IP) problems and, sometimes, intentional strategic traps. The goal of this article is to help you see beyond the “Oh, it’s free!” mindset and understand the true nature of these technologies. So, where does the misunderstanding about ‘royalty-free’ begin?

 

๐Ÿค” “A Prefab House with a Free Frame?” The Real Face of Royalty-Free

The belief that ‘free means safe’ is actually the starting point for the biggest misconception. Royalty-free never means ‘zero risk.’ In reality, it’s just ‘a promise of a license with a very limited scope,’ not a complete hall pass from all patent issues.

To put it simply, it’s like a ‘prefab house where only the frame is free.’ The frame might not cost you anything, but you still have to pay for or figure out the crucial parts like walls, the roof, and plumbing on your own.

Bluetooth: ‘Enabling Technologies’ Are Not Covered

This becomes clear if you take a close look at Bluetooth’s Patent/Copyright License Agreement (PCLA). The royalty-free benefit is strictly limited to the ‘Compliant Portion’ of a certified product and only for ‘Necessary Claims’—patents that are technically essential to implement the standard and cannot be avoided.

More importantly, so-called ‘Enabling Technologies’ like semiconductor processes or operating systems are explicitly excluded from the license scope. The Bluetooth communication module itself might be covered, but the peripheral technologies needed to run it, like power management chips and audio codecs, can still be subject to separate patent disputes. In fact, more than 20 lawsuits were recently filed over Bluetooth’s frequency-hopping technology patents.

WebRTC: Google’s Umbrella Only Covers Google’s Code

The situation is similar with Google-led WebRTC. The royalty-free license Google provides generally applies only to ‘patents owned by Google’ and only when using the ‘original source code distributed by Google’ as-is. If a company modifies this code or adds new features to suit its service, the added parts are no longer under Google’s protective umbrella. This means they could be exposed to unexpected patent infringement lawsuits from third parties.

 

๐Ÿ“Š Stories from the Players in the Game

So, what have actual companies experienced in this complex game? Let’s look at a few key examples to see the risks firsthand.

Case 1: The AV1 Codec – “Attacked by Wolves from Outside the Fence”

In response to the expensive royalties of the HEVC codec, tech giants like Google and Netflix formed the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) and created a royalty-free codec called ‘AV1.’ They even included a strong defensive clause preventing member companies from suing each other over patents, creating a solid “patent-safe zone.”

However, this fence only protected them from the patents of member companies. A patent pool operator named Sisvel appeared from outside the fence, claiming that AV1 was a “Copycat Codec” that infringed on their patents. They began demanding license fees from users (€0.24 per device). This case showed the limits of a consortium’s “permeable shield”—it couldn’t block attacks from the outside.

Case 2: Tesla’s NACS – “‘Our Friends’ Get In Free”

In 2014, Tesla pledged to let others use its patents, as long as they were “acting in Good Faith.” However, the term ‘Good Faith’ was essentially a promise “not to attack us in any way.” When a capacitor manufacturer sued a company that Tesla had acquired, Tesla countersued, claiming the lawsuit itself was a violation of good faith.

This strategy proved brilliant when the U.S. government’s 2021 Infrastructure Act offered subsidies only for the competing CCS1 standard. Facing a crisis, Tesla declared NACS an open standard, not only qualifying for government subsidies but also pulling competitors into its ecosystem under the condition that they wouldn’t attack Tesla. It was a smart move to solidify market dominance through ‘free and open’ access.

Case 3: Qualcomm – The Two Sides of Geopolitical Risk

Qualcomm’s “No License, No Chips” policy illustrates another dimension of the problem. Qualcomm tied its patent licensing agreements to the total price of a smartphone to maximize profits, a practice that led to a fine of over 1 trillion won from the Korea Fair Trade Commission, a decision upheld by the Supreme Court. Interestingly, however, a U.S. court ruled that the same business model did not violate antitrust laws. This case starkly shows the ‘geopolitical risk’—how the same action can lead to completely different legal outcomes depending on a country’s industrial policy and national interests.

 

๐Ÿ’ก “The Razor and the Blade”: The Real Goal Behind Opening Up Tech

When companies open up their technology for free, there’s almost always a calculated reason behind it. Their goals can be summarized into three main categories.

Strategic Goal Explanation (Analogy) Key Example
Ecosystem Dominance & Customer Lock-in “The razor is free, the blades are not.” Attract users with a free tool to lock them into your platform or service. Microsoft (.NET → Azure)
Cost Avoidance & Reshaping Competition “Group buying to avoid a pricey toll road.” Form a consortium to evade expensive royalties from a competitor’s tech and weaken its influence. AOMedia (AV1 → HEVC)
Profit Maximization & Business Model Design “Charging the buffet based on the customer’s weight, not the food’s.” Designing royalty calculations to maximize revenue. Qualcomm (Chipset → Total Phone Price)

 

๐Ÿ›ก️ Avoiding the “Patent Minefield”: The Importance of FTO Analysis

So, how can companies protect themselves amidst these potential risks? The most fundamental and crucial tool is Freedom to Operate (FTO) analysis.

Many people mistakenly believe, ‘I patented this technology, so I can use it freely.’ But that’s not how it works. For example, let’s say a competitor holds a patent for technology ‘A.’ Even if you patent an improvement, ‘A+B,’ by adding feature ‘B,’ you could still be infringing on their ‘A’ patent the moment you manufacture your product. Your patent gives you rights to ‘B,’ but it doesn’t grant you the right to use ‘A.’

FTO analysis is the process of drawing a map to see if your product might step on someone else’s ‘patent mine.’ It’s an essential step to identify loopholes in royalty-free licenses and uncover unexpected risks in advance. When you consider that a lawsuit can cost millions, the expense of an FTO analysis is a very affordable ‘insurance policy.’

 

๐Ÿ“œ 5 Key Strategic Principles for Your Company

Based on the cases we’ve examined, here are five principles to remember when dealing with royalty-free technology.

  1. Principle 1: Always Get the Legal Basis in Writing. You need a formal agreement that specifies the license’s scope, terms, limitations, and termination clauses, not vague promises like “good faith.” The freer the tech, the more carefully you need to read the contract.
  2. Principle 2: Understand the Provider’s Real Revenue Model. You need to map out how they ultimately monetize their value. Evaluate it from a long-term Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) perspective, considering platform lock-in, data usage, and more.
  3. Principle 3: Analyze Beyond the Consortium’s “Defensive Shield.” It is essential to conduct an FTO analysis for patents held by non-members, especially Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs), and budget for potential royalty payments.
  4. Principle 4: Assess the “Geopolitical Risk” of IP Enforcement. Review IP regulations and legal precedents in key markets and be flexible enough to adapt your strategy to local conditions.
  5. Principle 5: If You Open Your Tech, Define Your Company’s “Azure.” When you open up a technology, you must set a clear ‘backend revenue model’ and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the high-profit business you ultimately want to drive users toward.
๐Ÿ’ก

Must-Read! 5 Strategic Principles for Using “Free” Tech

1. Get It in Writing: Secure a formal contract, not vague promises like ‘good faith.’
2. Find the Real Revenue Model: Analyze the provider’s hidden motives, such as platform lock-in.
3. Look Beyond the Fence:
Always check for patent risks (FTO) from non-consortium members, especially NPEs.
4. Assess Geopolitical Risk: The same business model can face different legal judgments by country.
5. Define Your ‘Azure’: If you open your tech, have a clear backend revenue model to link it to.

Frequently Asked Questions ❓

Q: Are ‘royalty-free’ and ‘open source’ the same thing?
A: They’re different. ‘Open source’ mainly refers to a ‘copyright’ license for using, modifying, and distributing source code. In contrast, ‘royalty-free’ is closer in meaning to being free from ‘patent’ usage fees. Even open-source software can require separate patents to implement its technology, so it isn’t free from the risk of patent infringement.
Q: Isn’t FTO analysis too expensive and difficult?
A: The cost varies depending on the technology’s scope, but compared to patent litigation costs that can run into the millions, an FTO analysis is a very economical ‘insurance policy.’ It’s much smarter to find ‘patent mines’ in advance to alter a design or secure necessary licenses.
Q: What exactly is the FRAND principle?
A: FRAND stands for ‘Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory.’ For patents essential to implementing a ‘standard technology’ used by multiple companies (like in telecommunications), the patent holder is obligated to offer licenses to anyone under these FRAND terms. This was a key issue in the Qualcomm case.
Q: We’re a small startup. Where should we start?
A: The very first step is to list which royalty-free or open-source technologies are core to your business. Then, carefully read their license agreements. If anything is unclear, seeking advice from an external IP expert is the best way to protect your company in the long run.

After today’s discussion, I hope you have a better sense of the weight behind the term ‘royalty-free.’ It reminds me of the old saying, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” When you encounter a new technology, the right question isn’t, “What can I save?” but rather, “What are the hidden costs? Who is the player gaining the most from this ecosystem?” Now is the time for that kind of wisdom. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask in the comments! ๐Ÿ˜‰

Sunday, August 24, 2025

Does AI determine the outcome of patent lawsuits? Visualization strategies for patent attorneys (AI๊ฐ€ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์†Œ์†ก์˜ ์ŠนํŒจ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋ฅธ๋‹ค? ๋ณ€๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐํ™” ์ „๋žต)

 

๋ณ€๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ๋‹˜, ์•„์ง๋„ ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋„๋ฉด ์ˆ˜์ • ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋ฐค์ƒˆ์‹œ๋‚˜์š”?
Patent Attorneys, still pulling all-nighters over drawing modifications?

ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋ฌธ์„œ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ•œ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋А๊ปด๋ณด์…จ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ด ๊ธ€์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ ํ•ด๋‹ต์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. FreeCAD, Claude AI, MCP ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ์กฐํ•ฉ์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ๋‹˜์˜ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ '๋ถ€์กฐ์ข…์‚ฌ'๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด ์—…๋ฌด ํšจ์œจ๊ณผ ์„ค๋“๋ ฅ์„ ๊ทน๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ๋ ค๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š”.

If you've ever felt limited trying to explain complex technology with just patent documents, this article could be the answer. Let me show you how the combination of FreeCAD, Claude AI, and MCP technologies can become your powerful 'co-pilot,' maximizing both your efficiency and persuasive power.

ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋ช…์„ธ์„œ์˜ ๋นฝ๋นฝํ•œ ๊ธ€์ž์™€ ๋ช‡ ์žฅ์˜ ๋„๋ฉด๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๊ด€์ด๋‚˜ ํŒ์‚ฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์„ ์ดํ•ด์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ์ผ, ์ •๋ง ์‰ฝ์ง€ ์•Š์ฃ .

Explaining the core of a technology to an examiner or a judge with nothing but dense text and a few drawings is a real challenge, isn't it?

์ €๋„ ๊ด€๋ จ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ‘์ด๊ฑธ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋” ์ง๊ด€์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ?’ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์„ ์ •๋ง ๋งŽ์ด ํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ํŠนํžˆ ๊ฒฐ์ •์ ์ธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์— ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค˜์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ณ€๋ก ๊ธฐ์ผ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ตฌ์ˆ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ๋Š” 3D ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง ๊ฐ™์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ ์ž๋ฃŒ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ์ŠนํŒจ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์š”.

In my own work, I've spent a lot of time wondering, 'How can I present this more intuitively?' Especially during crucial moments like hearings or oral arguments, a single visual aid like a 3D model can literally make or break a case.

๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์—๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋ ค๋ฉด ๊ณ ๊ฐ€์˜ ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด์™€ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์˜ ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์ˆ˜์˜€์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ๋ฐ”๋€Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. AI์™€ ์˜คํ”ˆ์†Œ์Šค ๋„๊ตฌ์˜ ๋ˆˆ๋ถ€์‹  ๋ฐœ์ „ ๋•๋ถ„์ด์ฃ . ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ FreeCAD, Claude AI, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด ๋‘˜์„ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•˜๋Š” MCP(Model Context Protocol)๋ผ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์Šคํƒ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ํŠนํ—ˆ ์‹ค๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ˜์‹ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ํ•œ๊ณ„๊นŒ์ง€ ์†”์งํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ด ๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

In the past, creating these materials required expensive software and expert help, but things are changing now. Thanks to the remarkable advancements in AI and open-source tools. Today, I want to talk frankly about how we can innovate patent practice using the tech stack of FreeCAD, Claude AI, and the MCP that connects them—covering both the realistic possibilities and the clear limitations.

 

AI ์‹œ๊ฐํ™”, ํŠนํ—ˆ ์‹ค๋ฌด์˜ '๊ฒŒ์ž„ ์ฒด์ธ์ €'๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋‹ค
AI Visualization: A 'Game-Changer' in Patent Practice

ํŠนํ—ˆ ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๋‚˜ ์†Œ์†ก ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” '์„ค๋“'์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด๋ผ๋„ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์—†์ฃ . ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ด ์ง€์ ์—์„œ AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์‹œ๊ฐํ™” ๋„๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํž˜์„ ๋ฐœํœ˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ์Ÿ์ ์„ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์ดํ•ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” 3D ๋ชจ๋ธ์ด๋‚˜ ์‹œ๋ฎฌ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์—ฌ์คŒ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๊ด€์ด๋‚˜ ์žฌํŒ๋ถ€์˜ ์ดํ•ด๋„๋ฅผ ํš๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋†’์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

One of the most critical elements in patent examination or litigation is 'persuasion.' No matter how brilliant the technology, it's meaningless if its value isn't communicated effectively. This is precisely where AI-powered visualization tools show their strength. By presenting complex technical issues as easy-to-understand 3D models or simulations, they can dramatically improve the comprehension of examiners and judges.

๋ฌผ๋ก  AI๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•ด ์ฃผ๋Š” '๋งŒ๋Šฅ ์—ด์‡ '๋Š” ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์€ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•˜๋Š” ์™„์ „ ์ž๋™ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ, ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์˜ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ž‘์—… ์†๋„๋ฅผ ๋†’์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” 'AI ์ฆ๊ฐ• ์›Œํฌํ”Œ๋กœ์šฐ(AI-augmented workflow)'์— ๊ฐ€๊น์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ‰, ๋ณ€๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ๋‹˜์ด ์ง์ ‘ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋ฅผ ์‹œ๊ฐํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฒ€์ฆํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ '๋ถ€์กฐ์ข…์‚ฌ(co-pilot)'๋ฅผ ์–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” ์…ˆ์ด์ฃ .

Of course, AI is not a 'silver bullet' that solves everything. The current technology is closer to an 'AI-augmented workflow' that enhances expert capabilities and speeds up tasks, rather than a full automation that replaces them. In other words, you, the patent attorney, are getting a powerful 'co-pilot' to help you visualize and validate ideas directly.
๐Ÿ’ก ์•Œ์•„๋‘์„ธ์š”!
Good to Know!

์ด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋Š” ๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ธ๋ ฅ ๋Œ€์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์ ์ด๊ณ  ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋งŽ์ด ์†Œ๋ชจํ•˜๋Š” ์ž‘์—…์„ AI์—๊ฒŒ ๋งก๊ฒจ, ๋ณ€๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ์ธ๋ ฅ์ด ์†Œ์†ก ์ „๋žต ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝ์ด๋‚˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ปจ์…‰ ์„ค๊ณ„์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋” ๋†’์€ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ์—…๋ฌด์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋•๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The core value of this technology isn't about replacing personnel to cut costs. Rather, it's about delegating repetitive, time-consuming tasks to AI, allowing high-level professionals like patent attorneys to focus on higher-value tasks like litigation strategy or core concept design.

 

ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์Šคํƒ ํ•ด๋ถ€: FreeCAD, Claude, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  MCP
Dissecting the Core Tech Stack: FreeCAD, Claude, and MCP

๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ด 'AI ๋ถ€์กฐ์ข…์‚ฌ'๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๋“ค๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ ธ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ฐ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ ์š”์†Œ์˜ ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ธ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์•„๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ๋„์ž…์˜ ์ฒซ๊ฑธ์Œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

So, what technologies make up this 'AI co-pilot'? Understanding the realistic capabilities and limitations of each component is the first step toward successful implementation.
๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์š”์†Œ
Tech Component
ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰
Strengths
ํ˜„์‹ค์  ํ•œ๊ณ„
Limitations
FreeCAD ํŒŒ๋ผ๋ฉ”ํŠธ๋ฆญ ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง: ์น˜์ˆ˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋ฉด ์—ฐ๊ด€๋œ ๋ชจ๋“  ํ˜•์ƒ์ด ์ž๋™ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋˜์–ด ์ˆ˜์ •์ด ์šฉ์ดํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Parametric Modeling: Changing one dimension automatically updates all related geometry, making modifications easy.

Python API: ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์ฝ”๋“œ๋กœ ์ œ์–ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด AI ์—ฐ๋™์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
All features can be controlled via code, providing the foundation for AI integration.
๊ฐ€ํŒŒ๋ฅธ ํ•™์Šต ๊ณก์„ : API ๋ฌธ์„œ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜์—ฌ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ์ด์ƒ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Steep Learning Curve: Lacks sufficient API documentation, making it difficult for non-experts to learn.

๋ณต์žก์„ฑ ํ•œ๊ณ„: ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ๊ณ ์ •๋ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง์—๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ „๋ฌธ ์ง€์‹์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Complexity Limit: Patent-level, high-precision modeling still requires expert knowledge.
Claude AI ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€ ์ฝ”๋”ฉ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ: ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋ช…์„ธ์„œ๋ฅผ ๋ถ„์„ํ•ด FreeCAD ์ œ์–ด ์ฝ”๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ƒ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Top-Tier Coding Ability: Can analyze patent specifications to generate FreeCAD control scripts.

๋Œ€์šฉ๋Ÿ‰ ๋ฌธ์„œ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ: ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€์˜ PDF ํŒŒ์ผ๋„ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์— ๋ถ„์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Large Document Processing: Capable of analyzing PDF files dozens of pages long at once.
์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒ€์ฆ ํ•„์ˆ˜: AI๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์„ฑํ•œ ์ฝ”๋“œ๋Š” ์˜ค๋ฅ˜(ํ™˜๊ฐ)๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ๊ฒ€ํ† ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Expert Verification Required: AI-generated code may contain errors (hallucinations) and must be reviewed.

์šด์˜ ๋น„์šฉ: ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ๋ชจ๋ธ ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์‹œ ์›” $100 ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operational Cost: Using advanced models can incur costs of $100+ per month.
MCP ํ‘œ์ค€ํ™”๋œ 'ํ†ต์—ญ์‚ฌ': AI(Claude)์™€ ์ „๋ฌธ ๋„๊ตฌ(FreeCAD) ๊ฐ„์˜ ์†Œํ†ต์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Standardized 'Translator': The key link that enables communication between AI and specialized tools.

๊ตฌํ˜„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ ์ž…์ฆ: ์ด๋ฏธ ๋‹ค์ˆ˜์˜ ์˜คํ”ˆ์†Œ์Šค ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์กด์žฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Proven Feasibility: Numerous open-source projects already exist.
๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ๋ณต์žก์„ฑ: Python ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์„ค์ •, ํฌํŠธ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋“ฑ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์ด ๊นŒ๋‹ค๋กญ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Technical Complexity: Initial setup, including Python environment and port management, is tricky.

์œ ์ง€๋ณด์ˆ˜ ํ•„์š”: ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ ์˜ค๋ฅ˜๋‚˜ ์ง€์—ฐ ๋“ฑ ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋ฌธ์ œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Maintenance Needed: May require real-time troubleshooting for connection errors or latency.

 

๋ณ€๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ธ AI ํ™œ์šฉ ์‹œ๋‚˜๋ฆฌ์˜ค
Realistic AI Use Cases for Patent Attorneys

์ด๋ก ์€ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๋“ค์—ˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ, ์ด์ œ ์‹ค์ œ ์—…๋ฌด์— ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์‹œ๋‚˜๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋ฅผ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณผ๊นŒ์š”? ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ '๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ž๋™ํ™”ํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค'๋Š” ์š•์‹ฌ ๋Œ€์‹ , ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋‹น์žฅ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž‘์—…๊ณผ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์˜ ์†๊ธธ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ž‘์—…์„ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Enough with the theory—let's look at specific scenarios for how this can be applied in actual practice. The key is to distinguish between tasks that can deliver immediate benefits and those that still require an expert's touch, rather than trying to automate everything at once.

✅ ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ž‘์—… (High-Feasibility / Tasks Ready for AI Now)

  • ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ๋„๋ฉด ์ˆ˜์ •: ๊ธธ์ด, ์ง๊ฒฝ, ๊ฐ๋„ ๋“ฑ ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•œ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ฃผ์„์„ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•˜๋Š” ์ž‘์—….
    Basic Drawing Modifications: Tasks like changing simple parameters such as length, diameter, or angles, and updating annotations.
  • ํ‘œ์ค€ ๋ถ€ํ’ˆ ์‚ฝ์ž…: ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‚˜์‚ฌ, ๋ฒ ์–ด๋ง ๊ฐ™์€ ํ‘œ์ค€ ๋ถ€ํ’ˆ์„ ๋„๋ฉด์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐฐ์น˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต ์ž‘์—….
    Inserting Standard Parts: Simple, repetitive tasks like adding and positioning standard library parts such as screws or bearings.
  • ๊ฐœ๋… ํ”„๋กœํ† ํƒ€์ดํ•‘: ๋ฐœ๋ช…์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ํšŒ์˜๋‚˜ ๋ธŒ๋ ˆ์ธ์Šคํ† ๋ฐ์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ 3D ๋ชจ๋ธ๋กœ ์‹œ๊ฐํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž‘์—….
    Concept Prototyping: Quickly visualizing the core concept of an invention as a 3D model for internal meetings or brainstorming.

❌ ์•„์ง์€ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์˜ ์˜์—ญ (Expert-Dominant / Tasks Still Requiring an Expert)

  • ๊ณ ์ •๋ฐ€ ์‹ ๊ทœ ํ˜•์ƒ ์ œ์ž‘: ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋„๋ฉด์˜ ์—„๊ฒฉํ•œ ๊ธฐ์ค€์„ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•˜๋Š” ๋…์ฐฝ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ํ˜•์ƒ์„ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์ž‘์—….
    Creating New, High-Precision Geometries: Creating original, complex geometries that must meet the strict standards of patent drawings.
  • ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์–ด์…ˆ๋ธ”๋ฆฌ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ: ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ถ€ํ’ˆ์˜ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์ƒํ˜ธ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋‚˜ ๊ตฌ์† ์กฐ๊ฑด, ๊ณต์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์ •์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž‘์—….
    Managing Complex Assemblies: Defining the intricate interrelationships, constraints, and tolerances of multi-part assemblies.
⚠️ ์ฃผ์˜ํ•˜์„ธ์š”! ๋ฒ•์  ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ '์„ค๋“'์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋„๊ตฌ
Caution! A Tool for 'Persuasion,' Not Legal Evidence

๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ ์€, AI๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์„ฑํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ž์ฒด๋กœ ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์ธ ๋ฒ•์  '์ฆ๊ฑฐ'๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ์Ÿ์ ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žฌํŒ๋ถ€๋‚˜ ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๊ด€์„ '์„ค๋“'ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ณด์กฐ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋กœ์„œ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  AI ์ƒ์„ฑ๋ฌผ์€ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์ธ๊ฐ„ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์˜ ๊ฒ€์ฆ๊ณผ ์ฆ์–ธ์ด ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจ๋˜์–ด์•ผ ๋ฒ•์  ์ ˆ์ฐจ์—์„œ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The most critical point is that AI-generated visuals cannot serve as standalone legal 'evidence'. However, as an auxiliary material to explain technical issues and 'persuade' a judge or examiner, it holds immense value. All AI-generated outputs must be backed by human expert verification and testimony to be meaningful in legal proceedings.

 

๐Ÿ’ก

AI ํŠนํ—ˆ ์‹œ๊ฐํ™”, ํ•ต์‹ฌ์€ '์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์กฐ'
AI Patent Visualization: The Key is 'Expert Augmentation'

AI ์—ญํ•  (AI's Role): ์™„์ „ ์ž๋™ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ, ๋ณ€๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ์˜ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” '๋ถ€์กฐ์ข…์‚ฌ(co-pilot)'
Not full automation, but a 'co-pilot' that enhances the attorney's capabilities.
ํ™œ์šฉ ๋ฒ”์œ„ (Scope of Use): ๋‹จ์ˆœ ๋„๋ฉด ์ˆ˜์ • ๋ฐ ๊ฐœ๋… ์„ค๋ช…์šฉ 3D ๋ชจ๋ธ ์ƒ์„ฑ์— ๋งค์šฐ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Highly effective for simple drawing modifications and creating 3D models for concept explanation.
ํ•„์ˆ˜ ์กฐ๊ฑด (Prerequisite):
AI ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฌผ์€ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ '์ธ๊ฐ„ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€'์˜ ๊ฒ€์ฆ์„ ๊ฑฐ์ณ์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค (Human-in-the-Loop).
AI outputs must be verified by a 'human expert'.
๋ฒ•์  ๊ฐ€์น˜ (Legal Value): ๋ฒ•์  '์ฆ๊ฑฐ'๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ, ์žฌํŒ๋ถ€์™€ ์‹ฌ์‚ฌ๊ด€์˜ ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋•๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ '์„ค๋“' ๋„๊ตฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
A powerful 'persuasion' tool to aid understanding, not legal 'evidence'.

 

์ž์ฃผ ๋ฌป๋Š” ์งˆ๋ฌธ
Frequently Asked Questions

Q: AI๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์„ฑํ•œ 3D ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ๋ฒ•์  ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ œ์ถœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?
Can I submit an AI-generated 3D model directly as legal evidence?
A: ์•„๋‹ˆ์š”, ํ˜„์žฌ๋กœ์„œ๋Š” ์–ด๋ ต์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. AI ์ƒ์„ฑ๋ฌผ์€ ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์ธ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ–์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ž๊ฒฉ์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ์ธ๊ฐ„ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์˜ ๊ฒ€์ฆ๊ณผ ์ฆ์–ธ์ด ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจ๋  ๋•Œ '์„ค๋ช…์šฉ ๋ณด์กฐ ์ž๋ฃŒ'๋กœ์„œ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
No, that is difficult at present. AI-generated outputs do not have standalone evidentiary value; they are valuable as 'demonstrative aids' when supported by the verification and testimony of a qualified human expert.
Q: ์ด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๋„์ž…ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์ฝ”๋”ฉ์„ ์•Œ์•„์•ผ ํ•˜๋‚˜์š”?
Do I absolutely need to know how to code to implement this technology?
A: ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์„ค์ •(MCP)์—๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ์ „๋ฌธ์„ฑ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, n8n๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋…ธ์ฝ”๋“œ(No-code) ๋„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด ๋น„๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž๋„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์—ฐ๋™์„ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ AI ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ฝ”๋”ฉ ํ•™์Šต ๋„์šฐ๋ฏธ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
While the initial MCP setup requires technical expertise, non-developers can implement basic integrations using no-code tools like n8n. Furthermore, there are innovative methods to use the AI itself as a coding tutor.
Q: ์•„์ง ์ถœ์›๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ•œ ๋ฐœ๋ช… ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ AI ์„œ๋น„์Šค์— ๋ณด๋‚ด๋„ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ๊ฐ€์š”?
Is it safe to send sensitive, pre-filing invention information to an AI service?
A: ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ณด์•ˆ ์œ„ํ—˜์ด ๋”ฐ๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ณด์•ˆ ์ •์ฑ…์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ๊ธฐ์—…์šฉ AI ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ฏผ๊ฐ ์ •๋ณด ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ๋ผ์ธ์„ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This poses a significant security risk. It is essential to use enterprise-level AI services with robust data security policies and to establish clear internal guidelines for handling sensitive information.

์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ๋ณ€๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ ์—…๋ฌด์— AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์‹œ๊ฐํ™” ๋„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์•Œ์•„๋ณด์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ผํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๊พธ์–ด ๋†“์„์ง€ ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‚˜์š”? ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์•„์ง ๋„˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•  ์‚ฐ๋„ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‹จ์ˆœ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต ์ž‘์—…์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜ ๋” ์ฐฝ์˜์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ „๋žต์ ์ธ ์—…๋ฌด์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Today, we've explored realistic ways to leverage AI-powered visualization tools in patent practice. Isn't it exciting to think about how technological advancements will change the way we work? Of course, there are still hurdles to overcome, but the prospect of moving away from repetitive tasks to focus on more creative and strategic work is appealing enough.

์ด ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์Šคํƒ ๋„์ž…์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋” ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•œ ์ ์ด๋‚˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ์˜๊ฒฌ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์–ธ์ œ๋“ ์ง€ ๋Œ“๊ธ€๋กœ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”! ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๊ณ  ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋ฉด ๋” ์ข‹์€ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…์„ ์ฐพ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.

If you have more questions or opinions about implementing this tech stack, please feel free to leave a comment! By discussing and sharing information together, we can find even better solutions.

Saturday, August 2, 2025

์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—…์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํŠนํ—ˆ ํŒ๋ก€ ํ•ด๋…๋ฒ•: ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ ์ค„์ด๋Š” ๋น„๋ฒ•(Startup Survival Guide: How to Decode Patent Cases and Slash Your Legal Risks)

ํŠนํ—ˆ์†Œ์†ก, ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ ์—†์ด๋„ ์ดํ•ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

You Can Understand Patent Litigation, Even Without a Lawyer.

ํŠนํ—ˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ, ์™œ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ธ๋„ ์•Œ์•„์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ์š”?
Why Should Even a Non-Lawyer Read Patent Judgments? 
๋ณต์žกํ•˜๊ณ  ์–ด๋ ต๊ฒŒ๋งŒ ๋А๊ปด์ง€๋Š” ํŠนํ—ˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ ์†์—๋Š” ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์ „๋žต๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ฝ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ณด๋ฌผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ •๋ณด๊ฐ€ ์ˆจ์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ธ€์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์„ ํ•ด๋…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์•Œ๋ ค๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Patent judgments can seem complex and daunting. However, within them lies a treasure trove of information that reveals business strategies and technological trends. In this article, I'll show you a simple way to decipher them.

์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ๊ธ€์„ ์”๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ์— ํŠนํ—ˆ ์†Œ์†ก ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์ฝ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋ฌธ๋“ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ์–ด์š”. '์ด๊ฑฐ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ๋‚˜ ๋ณ€๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ๋“ค๋งŒ ์ฝ์œผ๋ผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด ์•„๋‹ ํ…๋ฐ.' ์ €๋„ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋กœํŽŒ์— ์ž…์‚ฌํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ํŠนํ—ˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ๋งŒ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋ˆ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต์ด ๋‚˜๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ๋ฒ•๋ฅ  ์šฉ์–ด, ๊ธธ๊ณ  ์ง€๋ฃจํ•œ ๋ฌธ์žฅ๋“ค… ์†”์งํžˆ ์ €๋„ ๊ทธ๋žฌ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ธ๋“ค์€ ์˜ค์ฃฝํ• ๊นŒ ์‹ถ๋”๋ผ๊ณ ์š”.
Hello there. It's been a while since I've written. The other day, while reading a patent litigation judgment, a thought occurred to me: 'This can't be meant only for lawyers and patent attorneys.' I remember how my head would ache just from looking at a legal judgment on patent when I first joined a law firm. Complex legal jargon, long, tedious sentences… Honestly, if I felt that way, I can only imagine how a non-lawyer would feel.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ์ œ๊ฐ€ 25๋…„ ๋„˜๊ฒŒ ์ด ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ์—์„œ ๊ตด๋Ÿฌ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์•Œ๊ฒ ๋”๋ผ๊ณ ์š”. ์ด ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ๋“ค์ด ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ '์ŠนํŒจ'๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฌธ์„œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„์š”. ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์—๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์ „๋žต์— ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์•„์ด๋””์–ด, ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ฑ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹ค๋งˆ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค ๋“ค์–ด์žˆ์–ด์š”. ํŠนํ—ˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์„ ์ฝ๋Š”๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ, ์‹œ๋Œ€์˜ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ์ฝ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”.
But after more than 25 years in this field, I've come to realize something. These judgments are not just documents that determine 'who won or lost.' They contain ideas that can inspire our business strategies, clues about our competitors' technological direction, and insights to predict the future of the market. Reading a patent judgment is, ultimately, like reading the pulse of the times.

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ 'ํŠนํ—ˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ'์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์šด ์ฃผ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ข€ ๊ฐ€๋ณ๊ฒŒ ํ’€์–ด๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ ์ฝ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ์น˜ ํƒ์ • ์†Œ์„ค ์ฝ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์›Œ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
So today, I want to take a complicated topic like 'patent judgments' and break it down for you. I want to show you that reading a judgment can be as fascinating as reading a detective novel.

ํŠนํ—ˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์„ ๊ผญ ์ฝ์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์œ 
Why You Must Read Patent Judgments

๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ํŠนํ—ˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ ์ธ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ์ง€๋งŒ, ํŠนํ—ˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค์˜ ์–ธ์–ด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์€ ๊ทธ ์–ธ์–ด๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋‚ ์นด๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๋Š” ์žฅ์†Œ์ฃ . ํŠนํ—ˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์„ ์ฝ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ด์œ ๋ฅผ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š”.
Many people think of patents as a technical issue, but in fact, a patent is the language of business. A judgment, in particular, is where that language is most sharply articulated. Let me give you a few reasons why reading patent judgments is crucial.

  • ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ ๋™ํ–ฅ ํŒŒ์•…: ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์—๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ์–ด๋–ค ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฒ•๋ฅ ์  ์ „๋žต์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€๊ฐ€ ์•„์ฃผ ์ƒ์„ธํžˆ ๋‚˜์™€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    Understanding Competitor Trends: Judgments provide detailed information on which companies are competing with what technologies and what legal strategies they have employed.
  • ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ ์˜ˆ์ธก: ์†Œ์†ก์˜ ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด ๋˜๋Š” ํŠนํ—ˆ๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ '๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ ์ธ' ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ธ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์•„์š”. ์–ด๋–ค ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ํ˜„์žฌ ์น˜์—ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹คํˆฌ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ํ–ฅ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Š ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    Predicting Technology Trends: The patents that become the subject of litigation are often the 'most important and core' technologies in the market. By seeing what technologies are being fiercely contested, you can gauge the future direction of technology.
  • ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ: ํ˜น์‹œ ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์นจํ•ด ์†Œ์†ก์— ํœ˜๋ง๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ๊ด€๋ จ ํŒ๋ก€๋ฅผ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ •๋ง ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ฒ•์›์ด ์–ด๋–ค ๊ธฐ์ค€๊ณผ ๋…ผ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์นจํ•ด๋ฅผ ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
    Business Risk Management: It is critically important to stay informed about relevant case law to avoid getting caught up in potential patent infringement lawsuits. Judgments reveal the criteria and logic by which a court determines patent infringement.
์•Œ์•„๋‘์„ธ์š”!
Good to Know!
ํŠนํ—ˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ '๋ฒ•๋ฅ  ๋ฌธ์„œ'๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด, ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์–ด๋“ค์ด ์–ด๋–ค ๊ฒŒ์ž„์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” '๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ฐฑ์„œ'์™€ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉด ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ธฐ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์‰ฌ์›Œ์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
If you think of a patent judgment not just as a 'legal document' but as a 'business white paper' that shows what game the major market players are playing, it becomes much easier to understand.

ํŠนํ—ˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ, ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ณ„๋กœ ์ฝ๋Š” ๋ฒ•
How to Read a Patent Judgment, Step-by-Step

์ด์ œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ฝ์–ด์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ๊ทธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ณ„๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค๋“œ๋ฆด๊ฒŒ์š”. ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์šฉ์–ด๋Š” ์ž ์‹œ ์žŠ๊ณ , ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์ด ๋“ค๋ ค์ฃผ๋Š” '์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ'์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•ด ๋ด…์‹œ๋‹ค.
Now, let's go over how to read a judgment, step-by-step. Let's forget the complex terms for a moment and focus on the 'story' the judgment tells.

1๋‹จ๊ณ„: ๋‹น์‚ฌ์ž์™€ ํŒ๊ฒฐ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ธฐ
Step 1: Identify the Parties and the Judgment Order

ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ ์ฒซ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€์—๋Š” '์›๊ณ (Plaintiff)'์™€ 'ํ”ผ๊ณ (Defendant)'๊ฐ€ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์ธ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฒ•์›์˜ ์ตœ์ข… ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์ธ '์ฃผ๋ฌธ(Order)'์ด ๋‚˜์™€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 'ํ”ผ๊ณ ๋Š” ์›๊ณ ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ธˆ 10์–ต ์›์„ ์ง€๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋ผ'์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์•„์ฃผ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜์™€ ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋งŒ ์ฝ์–ด๋„ ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ์ด๊ฒผ๊ณ  ์กŒ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
The first page of a judgment lists who the 'plaintiff' and 'defendant' are, as well as the court's final conclusion, the 'order.' Since it is stated very clearly, such as 'The defendant shall pay the plaintiff 1 billion won,' you can immediately know who won and who lost just by reading this part.

2๋‹จ๊ณ„: ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ๊ฐœ์š”์™€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์Ÿ์  ์ฐพ๊ธฐ
Step 2: Find the Case Summary and Key Issues

ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์˜ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์—๋Š” '์‚ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ๊ฐœ์š”'์™€ '์Ÿ์ (Issues)'์ด ์ •๋ฆฌ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์›๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ์™œ ์†Œ์†ก์„ ์ œ๊ธฐํ–ˆ๊ณ , ํ”ผ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ์™œ ๋ฐ˜๋ฐ•ํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด ์†Œ์†ก์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋‹ด๊ฒจ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ถ„์Ÿ์˜ '์ง„์งœ ์ด์œ '๋ฅผ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ฃ .
The middle section of the judgment summarizes the 'case summary' and the 'issues.' This part contains why the plaintiff filed the lawsuit, why the defendant countered, and what the core issue of the litigation is. From here, we can grasp the 'real reason' behind the dispute.

3๋‹จ๊ณ„: ํŠนํ—ˆ ์นจํ•ด ์—ฌ๋ถ€ ํŒ๋‹จ ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ธฐ
Step 3: Understand the Criteria for Patent Infringement

๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ํŠนํ—ˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์€ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์นจํ•ด ์—ฌ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜๋Š” ๋…ผ๋ฆฌ์  ํ๋ฆ„์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณดํ†ต์€ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ(Claim)์˜ ๋ฌธ์–ธ์„ ํ•ด์„ํ•˜๊ณ , ์นจํ•ด ์ฃผ์žฅ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด ๊ทธ ๋ฌธ์–ธ์˜ ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋‘ ํฌํ•จํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋”ฐ์ ธ๋ณด๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ๋ฒ•๋ฅ  ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์˜ ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, 'ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์˜ ๊ฐ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ตฌํ˜„๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€'๋ฅผ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์–ด๋ ต์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š”.
Most patent judgments include the logical flow for determining patent infringement. It typically proceeds by interpreting the language of the claims and examining whether the allegedly infringing product contains all the elements of that language. While this part might require legal expertise, it's not too difficult if you focus on whether 'each component of the patent claim is literally implemented in the product.'

ํŠนํ—ˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ ์šฉ์–ด ์ •๋ฆฌ
Glossary of Patent Judgment Terms

์šฉ์–ด
Term
์„ค๋ช…
Explanation
์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ (Claim)
Claim
ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฐ›๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋ฅผ ์ •์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฌธ์žฅ
The sentence that defines the scope of technology a patent seeks to protect
๋ฌธ์–ธ ์นจํ•ด
Literal Infringement
ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์นจํ•ด ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๋ฌธ์ž ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ตฌํ˜„๋œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ
Occurs when every element of a patent claim is literally present in the infringing product
๊ท ๋“ฑ ์นจํ•ด
Doctrine of Equivalents
๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌธ์ž ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ตฌํ˜„๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋”๋ผ๋„ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ, ์ž‘์šฉ, ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋™์ผํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ
Occurs when a component is not literally present, but performs the same function in the same way to achieve the same result

์‹ค์ „ ์˜ˆ์‹œ: ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ, ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์„ธ์š”
Practical Example: How to Use a Judgment

์ž, ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์‹ค์ œ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์Šค๋งˆํŠธ์›Œ์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—… ๋Œ€ํ‘œ๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•ด๋ด…์‹œ๋‹ค.
So, how can you actually use a judgment in a real business situation? Let's say, for example, you are the CEO of a startup developing a new smartwatch.

์‚ฌ๋ก€: ์Šค๋งˆํŠธ์›Œ์น˜ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—…
Case: Smartwatch Development Startup

  • ์ƒํ™ฉ: ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ A๊ฐ€ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ 'ํ˜ˆ์•• ์ธก์ • ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ'์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์นจํ•ด ์†Œ์†ก์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ A๊ฐ€ ์Šน์†Œํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์„ ์ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋จ.
    Situation: You read a judgment where your competitor, Company A, won a patent infringement lawsuit regarding their 'blood pressure measurement function.'
  • ํ™œ์šฉ ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ: ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๋ฒ•์›์ด ์–ด๋–ค ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋กœ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์นจํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ธ์ •ํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€, ํŠนํžˆ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์˜ ์–ด๋–ค ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์นจํ•ด์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ถ„์„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ํ˜ˆ์•• ์ธก์ • ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ด ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ A์˜ ํŠนํ—ˆ๋ฅผ ์นจํ•ดํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋„๋ก ์„ค๊ณ„ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ ์ˆ˜์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    How to Use: You can analyze the judgment to understand on what basis the court recognized patent infringement, especially which elements of the claim were key to the infringement. This allows you to adjust your product's design direction to ensure your blood pressure measurement function does not infringe on Company A's patent.

ํŠนํ—ˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ ๋ถ„์„ ์‹œ ์ฃผ์˜ํ•  ์ 
Points to Note When Analyzing Patent Judgments

ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์„ ์ฝ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ถ„๋ช… ํฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋งน๋ชฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ฃผ์˜์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ ๊ผญ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Reading judgments is certainly very helpful, but you must remember a few cautionary points before blindly accepting them.

  • '๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ์ด๊ฒผ๋А๋ƒ'๋ณด๋‹ค '์™œ ์ด๊ฒผ๋А๋ƒ'์— ์ฃผ๋ชฉ: ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์ŠนํŒจ๋งŒ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์˜๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์—†์–ด์š”. ๋ฒ•์›์ด ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฒ•๋ฆฌ์  ๋…ผ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€, ์ฆ‰ '์™œ' ์ด๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์กŒ๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์šฐ์„ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    Focus on the 'why' rather than the 'who won': Simply checking the win or loss is meaningless. It is a priority to understand the legal reasoning the court used, that is, 'why' the party won or lost.
  • ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์‹ค๊ด€๊ณ„์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง: ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์— ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์‹ค๊ด€๊ณ„๋„ ์†Œ์†ก์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ํฐ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ํŠน์ • ํŒ๋ก€๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์˜ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ ์šฉ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋‹จ์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์— ์ฃผ์˜ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    Results vary depending on specific facts: Specific facts not explicitly mentioned in the judgment can also significantly influence the outcome of a lawsuit. Therefore, you must be careful not to assume that a particular case precedent directly applies to your situation.
  • ํŠนํ—ˆํŒ๋ก€๋Š” ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ํŒ๋ก€์™€ ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํŠน์„ฑ์„ ์ง€๋‹˜: ์ง€์‹์žฌ์‚ฐ๊ถŒ ๋ถ„์•ผ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ๊ณ„์† ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ๊ธฐ์กด ๋ฒ•๋ฅ ๋กœ๋Š” ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์‚ฌ์•ˆ๋“ค์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ํŠนํ—ˆ ํŒ๋ก€๋Š” ๊ธฐ์กด ๋ฒ•๋ฅ ์„ ๋ณด์™„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํŒ๋‹จ ๊ธฐ์ค€์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    Patent case law has slightly different characteristics from general case law: The field of intellectual property continuously sees new technologies emerge, leading to issues that are difficult to resolve with existing laws. For this reason, patent case law plays a crucial role in complementing existing laws and providing new standards for judgment.

ํŠนํ—ˆํŒ๋ก€ ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์—์„œ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•  5๊ฐ€์ง€
5 Things to Identify in a Judgment to Understand Patent Case Law

ํŠนํ—ˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์‹ฌ์ธต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋‹ค์Œ 5๊ฐ€์ง€ ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด์„ธ์š”.
If you want to understand a patent judgment more deeply, focus on these five elements when reading.

  1. ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์˜ ๋ฌธ์–ธ ํ•ด์„: ํŒ๊ฒฐ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์˜ ๊ฐ ์šฉ์–ด(word)๋ฅผ ๋ฒ•์›์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์„ํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํ•ด์„์ด ํŠนํ—ˆ์˜ ๋ณดํ˜ธ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    Interpretation of Claim Language: The most important part of a judgment is how the court interpreted each term (word) in the patent claim. This interpretation defines the scope of the patent's protection.
  2. ๊ท ๋“ฑ ์นจํ•ด ํŒ๋‹จ: ์นจํ•ด ์ œํ’ˆ์ด ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋ฌธ์ž ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋”๋ผ๋„, '๊ธฐ๋Šฅ, ์ž‘์šฉ, ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ'๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋™์ผํ•˜๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ท ๋“ฑ ์นจํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์„ฑ๋ฆฝ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ•์›์ด ์ด ์›์น™์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ ์šฉํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด์„ธ์š”.
    Determining the Doctrine of Equivalents: Even if an infringing product does not literally contain all elements of the claim, infringement can be established if the 'function, way, and result' are substantially the same. Pay attention to how the court applied this principle.
  3. 'ํ†ต์ƒ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ž'์˜ ๊ด€์ : ํŠนํ—ˆ ์†Œ์†ก์—์„œ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ 'ํ†ต์ƒ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ž'๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์ƒ์˜ ์ธ๋ฌผ์ด ๊ธฐ์ค€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ธ๋ฌผ์ด ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ์–ด๋–ค ์ง€์‹ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ๊ฐ€์กŒ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์•˜๋Š”์ง€๊ฐ€ ํŒ๊ฒฐ์— ํฐ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    Perspective of the 'Person Having Ordinary Skill in the Art': In patent litigation, a hypothetical person known as the 'person having ordinary skill in the art' is always the standard. The court's view on this person's level of knowledge in the relevant technical field has a major impact on the judgment.
  4. ์„ ํ–‰๊ธฐ์ˆ (Prior Art)์˜ ์—ญํ• : ์†Œ์†ก์—์„œ ํ”ผ๊ณ ๋Š” ์ข…์ข… '์ด ํŠนํ—ˆ๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ (์„ ํ–‰๊ธฐ์ˆ )๊ณผ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค'๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ฌดํšจ๋ฅผ ๋‹คํˆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ•์›์ด ์„ ํ–‰๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํŒ๋‹จํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    The Role of Prior Art: In a lawsuit, the defendant often argues that 'this patent is not significantly different from existing technology (prior art)' and contests its validity. How the court defined the scope of prior art is crucial.
  5. ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ: ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์—๋Š” ๋‹น์‚ฌ์ž๋“ค์ด ์ œ์ถœํ•œ ์„œ์ฆ, ์ฆ์–ธ, ๊ฐ์ • ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๋“ฑ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋“ค์ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ•์›์ด ์–ด๋–ค ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์— ๋” ํฐ ๋ฌด๊ฒŒ๋ฅผ ๋‘์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ์˜ ์†Œ์†ก์— ๋Œ€๋น„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    The Importance of Evidence: The judgment mentions various pieces of evidence submitted by the parties, such as written documents, testimonies, and expert opinions. Observing which evidence the court placed more weight on can be helpful for preparing for future litigation.

๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ: ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์€ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ๊ธธ๋ผ์žก์ด
Conclusion: Judgments are the Best Guidebooks

์–ด๋ ต๊ณ  ์ง€๋ฃจํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋งŒ ๋А๊ปด์กŒ๋˜ ํŠนํ—ˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์ด ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์ด์‹ค ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์„ ์ฝ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๋ฒ•์  ์ง€์‹์„ ์Œ“๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค์˜ ๋‚˜์นจ๋ฐ˜์„ ์ •๊ตํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋“ฌ๋Š” ์ผ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์š”. ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์†Œ์†ก์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ด๊ธด ํ•œ ๊ถŒ์˜ ์ฑ…์„ ์ฝ์Œ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ์ž์›์„ ์ ˆ์•ฝํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I hope that what you once thought of as a difficult and tedious patent judgment now looks a little different. I believe that reading a judgment is more than just an act of accumulating legal knowledge; it's about precisely refining the compass for our business. By reading a single book that contains the outcome of a complex lawsuit, we can save an immense amount of time and resources.

๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋ชจ๋“  ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์„ ๋‹ค ์ฝ์„ ํ•„์š”๋Š” ์—†์–ด์š”. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚˜์˜ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐœ๋งŒ์ด๋ผ๋„ ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ์ฑ™๊ฒจ๋ณธ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ์ฝ๋Š” ๋ˆˆ์ด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒ•๋ฅ  ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์˜ ์กฐ์–ธ์€ ํ•„์ˆ˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ์ „์— ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ๋„ ๋˜‘๋˜‘ํ•œ '๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์ „๋žต๊ฐ€'๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด์•ผ๊ฒ ์ฃ ?
Of course, you don't need to read every single judgment. However, if you consistently keep up with just a few important judgments related to your business, I'm confident that your perspective on market trends will change. While advice from legal professionals is essential, before that, we must become smart 'business strategists' ourselves, right?

๋ฉด์ฑ… ์กฐํ•ญ
Disclaimer
์ด ๊ธ€์€ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์ •๋ณด ์ œ๊ณต์„ ๋ชฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ฒ•์  ์กฐ์–ธ์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐœ๋ณ„์ ์ธ ํŠนํ—ˆ ๋ฐ ๋ฒ•๋ฅ  ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์ „๋ฌธ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ณ€๋ฆฌ์‚ฌ์™€ ์ƒ๋‹ดํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This article is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. For individual patent and legal matters, please consult with a qualified attorney or patent attorney.

ํŠนํ—ˆ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ ํ•ด๋…์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ
Key Takeaways for Deciphering Patent Judgments

ํ•ต์‹ฌ 1:
Key Point 1: ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๋ฒ•๋ฅ  ๋ฌธ์„œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ, ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ์ „๋žต์„œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
A judgment is not just a legal document, but a market strategy guide.
ํ•ต์‹ฌ 2:
Key Point 2: ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์ž์™€ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ(๊ฒฐ๋ก )์„ ๋จผ์ € ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
It's important to first identify the parties and the order (conclusion).
ํ•ต์‹ฌ 3:
Key Point 3: ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ(Claim)์˜ ๋ฌธ์–ธ๊ณผ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ์ผ์น˜ ์—ฌ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์นจํ•ด ํŒ๋‹จ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The core of infringement determination is the matching of the patent claim language to the product.
ํ•ต์‹ฌ 4:
Key Point 4: ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์„ ์ฝ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ์™€ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•˜๋Š” ํž˜์„ ๊ธธ๋Ÿฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Reading judgments builds the ability to predict future technology trends and business risks.

์ž์ฃผ ๋ฌป๋Š” ์งˆ๋ฌธ
Frequently Asked Questions

Q: ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ ์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋‹ค ์ฝ์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋‚˜์š”?
Q: Do I need to read the entire judgment?
A: ์•„๋‹ˆ์š”, ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ๋‹น์‚ฌ์ž, ์ฃผ๋ฌธ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ๊ฐœ์š”์™€ ์Ÿ์ ๋งŒ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•ด๋„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ด€์‹ฌ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ์—…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐœ๋งŒ ์ •๋…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ํฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
A: No, you don't. It's sufficient to first grasp the parties, the order, and the case summary and issues. Reading just a few judgments related to a technology or company you're interested in can be very helpful.
Q: ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ดํ•ดํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋‚˜์š”?
Q: How should I understand patent claims?
A: ์ฒญ๊ตฌํ•ญ์€ ํŠนํ—ˆ๊ถŒ์ด ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ๋ฒ”์œ„๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋ฌธ์žฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์น˜ '์ด ๋ฐœ๋ช…์€ A, B, C, D๋ผ๋Š” ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค'๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ช…์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ฃ . ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ด ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์ด ์นจํ•ด ์ฃผ์žฅ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌํ˜„๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฃน๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
A: Claims are the key sentences that determine the scope of patent rights. They specify, for example, 'This invention has components A, B, C, and D.' The judgment primarily deals with how these components are implemented in the allegedly infringing product.
Q: ํŠนํ—ˆ ์ „๋ฌธ ์ง€์‹์ด ์—†๋Š”๋ฐ๋„ ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ ๋ถ„์„์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ• ๊นŒ์š”?
Q: Is it possible to analyze a judgment without specialized patent knowledge?
A: ๋„ค, ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ƒ์„ธํ•œ ๋ฒ•๋ฆฌ์  ํŒ๋‹จ์€ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์˜ ์˜์—ญ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์†Œ์†ก์˜ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ, ์ฃผ์š” ์Ÿ์ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฒ•์›์˜ ๊ฒฐ๋ก ๋งŒ ์ดํ•ดํ•ด๋„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์œ ์ตํ•œ ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฑด 'ํŒ๊ฒฐ๋ฌธ์ด ์™œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€'๋ฅผ ๋…ผ๋ฆฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋”ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋Š” ํ›ˆ๋ จ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
A: Yes, it is. While detailed legal reasoning is the domain of experts, you can still gain valuable insights by understanding just the background of the lawsuit, the main issues, and the court's conclusion. The key is to train yourself to logically follow 'why the judgment reached this conclusion.

※ ๋ฒ•์  ๊ณ ์ง€ (Legal Notice) ※
๋ณธ ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ ํฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋Š” ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์ •๋ณด ์ œ๊ณต์„ ๋ชฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํŠน์ • ์‚ฌ์•ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฒ•๋ฅ ์  ์ž๋ฌธ์„ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐœ๋ณ„์ ์ธ ๋ฒ•๋ฅ  ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์™€ ์ƒ๋‹ดํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This blog post is for general informational purposes only and cannot substitute for legal advice on specific matters. Please be sure to consult with a professional regarding individual legal issues.

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