电子商务商业方法专利的创造性判断标准分析

Analysis on the Criterion for the Judgment of Non-obviousness of E-business Method Patent

自1998年以来,世界各主要国家对于电子商务商业方法的可专利性逐渐达成共识,但是在实施何种创造性判断标准方面却各行其是。本文首先从理论上对电子商务商业方法专利的创造性判断标准进行阐述,认为应当从发明方案的整体角度考察,并且厘清了创造性与技术性的关系。继之,文章对美国、欧盟和日本在实践中并未坚持贯彻该理论标准的原因进行了分析,得出具体标准还应考虑各国专利法律制度整体及科技与产业发展水平。最后,结合具体国情,本文认为,我国应当明确以“非显而易见性”即“突出的实质性特点”为标准,从发明方案的整体去判断,而不必苛求其中的计算机信息网络技术具有过高的创新性。

Since 1998, the main countries all over the world gradually reached an agreement on the patentability of E -business method. However, they set different criteria for the judgment of non -obviousness. At the beginning, the thesis expounds the theoretical criterion for the judgment of non - obviousness, holds that the judgment of non - obviousness should be made after the inspection on the whole program of E - business method invention, and clarifies the relation between non - obviousness and technical nature. After that, by analyzing the reasons of the United States, Europe and Japan＇s non - persisting in the theoretical criterion, the thesis advocates that the concrete criterion should be set after considering the whole patent system as well as the level of science and technology and the development of industry. In the conclusion, after taking account of the present conditions, the thesis concludes that our country should take ＂outstanding virtual peculiarity＂ as the criterion of non -obviousness, and make judgment after the inspection on the whole program of invention, instead of requesting the technology of the program to be provided with excessive creativeness.