从TPP知识产权规则审视植物新品种的可专利性

A Look at the Patentability of New Plant Varieties in the Perspective of TPP Intellectual Property Rules

TPP知识产权规则要求授予植物新品种专利权,这虽然顺应了品种权与专利权融合的趋势,但颠覆了包括我国在内的世界上多数国家和地区植物新品种保护制度。美国和其他TPP成员国之间,在植物新品种可专利的客体范围、专利实质条件和形式条件等方面,可能相互做出一定让步。我国植物新品种保护制度应当顺势改进,将植物新品种及其生物学生产方法纳入可专利的客体范围,凡是达到专利实质条件和形式条件的都应当授予专利权。

TPP intellectual property rules require that new plant varieties should be patentable, which though conforms to the international trend of converging plant variety right and patent right, shakes the current new plant varieties protection system in China and many other counties. The US and other TPP members may make concessions to each other in the following respect, namely the object scope of patentable new plant varieties as well as the substantial and formal conditions of patent. The new plant varieties protection system in China should catch up with the trend, introducing the new plant varieties and the related biological production methods into the patentable object scope, as long as they meet the substantial and formal conditions.