摘要
在专利的实质审查和司法判决中,对发明创造性所涉及的公知常识的实际判断容易产生分歧。美国专利无效诉讼的Berkheimer判例对Alice/Mayo测试法的外部证成中,提出了"熟知、常规而普遍的活动"判断标准,本文借鉴该思路,采用系统解释的方法提出:若某技术特征无须具体解释说明就能满足专利法第二十六第三款"清楚、完整"的要求,那么能够将其认定为本领域的公知常识且不必举证,并结合北京高院2017年专利无效诉讼典型案例,分析了这种判断思路的合理性。
In the patent examination and judicial decisions, the judgment of the common knowledge involved in the inventive steps is likely to be divergent. The Berkheimer case which is a US patent invalidation case puts forward the "well-understood, routine, conventional activity" judgment standard in the external certificate of the Alice/Mayo test. This paper draws on this idea and proposes a systematic interpretation: if a certain technical feature can meet the requirements of the "clear and full" of Article 26.3 of the Patent Law without the specific explanation, then it can be judged as common knowledge in the art and does not need to be proved. Combined with the typical case of patent invalidation lawsuit of Beijing High Court in 2017, the rationality of this judgment is verified elementarily.
出处
《现代法治研究》
2019年第3期167-173,共7页
Journal of Modern Rule of Law
作者简介
杜衡,国家知识产权局专利局专利审查协作江苏中心副研究员。
