商业方法专利的扩展——交易性分析与技术科学的融合

The Expansion of the Business Methods Patent——The Introjections of Trade Analysis and Technical Science

商业方法的可专利性对大公司和小公司都有重大的影响,特别是中型公司。具有有效的知识产权诉讼预算的大公司有胆量去威吓小公司,这使得它们不敢使用商业方法进行竞争,并且这将增强大公司提出商业方法专利使用费的机会。处于高科技外缘的小公司没有为商业方法资产管理和侵权风险管理的费用和意外做好准备。州街道案已放松了一些条件,其告诉人们大多数商业公司将"生活在一个有利的时代"。

The patentability of the business method may have great influence on both large and small company, especially on the medium-sized company. The large companies with sufficient budget for litigation dare to bulldoze the small companies to make them quit using the business methods to compete, Which gives the large companies more opportunities to bring forward the royalty of business methods. The small companies which are on the edge of the high-tech are still not ready to the cost to manage the assets of business methods,and they are not ready to manage the unexpected tort risk. The State Street case has loosened some qualification, which tells us that most of the business companies will ＂live in a beneficial era＂.