电子商务商业方法专利化之探析

Analysis on Patenting E-commerce Business Method

域外对电子商务商业方法的保护倾向于将其作为专利加以保护。从法理学角度看,一般是基于以下3点:文化与法的相互促进作用;法理学中公平正义的理念;立法初衷遵循高效司法。从经济学角度看,一般是基于经济效益理念中激励效益与投资效益的双赢。此外,授权成本率模型中各影响因子,即权利人因被授权专利而获取的利益可能系数,以及其他市场主体因被受权专利而遭到的竞争障碍可能系数的变化也是不能忽略的因素。对我国的借鉴意义主要体现在立法上,可以考虑从法律渊源、时效保护以及评判标准入手,加大对电子商务商业方法的保护力度。

For the majority of countries in the world,they tends to protect E-commerce business method as a patent right. From jurisprudence perspective,it is based on three points： interaction between culture and law,jurisprudence philosophy of fairness and justice,the legislative intention of efficient justice. From economic perspective,it is usually based on incentive benefits and investment benefit. Besides,influential factors in the model of rate of license costs,for example,the coefficient of probability that right holders gain benefits from authorized patents and the coefficient of probability that other market players may be limited by the authoried patents,are factors that should not be ignored. It＇s beneficial for China to absorb foreign experience,especially on legislation of E-commerce business methods,legislation and limitation of protection as well as judge criterion so as to enhance protection of E-commerce business methods.