专利实用性与充分公开的竞合适用问题浅析

Preliminary Analysis of Coincident Application of Patent Utility and Suff icient Disclosure

一项发明或者实用新型由于不能实施而导致其可能既属于不具备实用性的情形,也属于说明书没有对发明做出充分公开的情形,由此会产生对同一法律事实适用不同法条的观点。目前专利审查指南没有对这种情况下的法律适用做出明确规定,从而可能导致法律适用的混淆,这不符合依法行政和依法审判的精神。通过从法条竞合的视角,考察实用性与充分公开之间的关系,并借鉴国外相关立法经验,进而提出解决问题的建议。

If an invention or utility model can not be implemented, it may either lack utility or belong to the situation that the description does not disclose suffi ciently, which will lead to the viewpoints that different articles apply to the same legal fact. At present, there is no defi nite regulation for this situation in the Guidelines for Patent Examination, which could lead to the confusion of legal application. It is not in line with the spirit of law-based administration and law-based trial. The article examines the relationship between utility and suffi cient disclosure from the angle of coincidence of articles, learns from the foreign related legislative experience, and then makes a proposal to solve the problem.