云计算的专利适格性分析

Study on Patent Eligibility of Cloud Computing

云计算集成性、系统性、对标准及互联网的依赖性等性质令人们对云计算专利保护的必要性以及保护程度产生更多的争议,必须寻求云计算专利客体范围的合理界限,平衡发明人和社会公众的利益。以现有专利法律规则衡量,运用云计算实施的商业方法、IaaS及PaaS商业模式具有专利适格性;云计算算法不可专利;对SaaS商业模式下软件的专利适格性,中美两国呈现不同的标准。云计算发明申请审查中,不确定是否属于专利保护的客体时,可以搁置专利适格性问题,先进行专利三性的审查。

The characteristics such as integration,systematic,and dependence on standards and Internet in cloud computing generate more controversy about necessity as well as the degree of patent protection on cloud computing.Therefore,We must seek reasonable boundaries balancing inventors and public interests on patent eligibility of cloud calculation.With the existing patent regulations,the business methods which are implemented by cloud computing,IaaS and PaaS are patentable;algorithms in cloud computing are unpatentable;whether SaaS is eligible for patent has different standards between China and the United States.As a result,during patent examination,patent eligibility issues should be pended,and novelty,inventiveness and practical applicability should be reviewed first when it is uncertain for the inventions about Cloud computing whether to be the object of the patent.