互联网公开对现有技术的影响

The Influence of Internet Disclosure on the Prior Art

互联网的普及及其信息传播的特殊性有必要深入分析其对现有技术界定的影响。本文主要就互联网公开对现有技术的界定涉及的地域标准问题、互联网上公开的电子资料是否可等同于出版公开的问题、以及新颖性判断的一些实务问题进行了分析,并对各国关于处理互联网信息作为现有技术的立法实践进行了介绍,进而对完善我国《专利法》提出了立法建议。

The popularization of Intemet and its particularity of information dissemination makes it necessary to deeply analyse its influence to the boundary of prior art. The article analyses the problem of region standard,whether the electronic materials disclosed on Intemet can equate with publication disclosure, and some practical problems involving the estimation of novelty, and make introduction of the existing legislative practice of the way of deal the information disclosed on the Internet as prior art of various countries, and then has offered the suggestion of legislating in improving our ＂patent law＂.