关于知识产权惩罚性赔偿的几个问题

On Some Issues about Punitive Damages of Intellectual Property

知识产权惩罚性赔偿是一种民事责任,是民法传统上的补偿性赔偿的适用前提,两者在功能、范围、计算依据等方面存有差异。知识产权惩罚性赔偿有其存在的民法学基础,这取决于知识产权侵权的特殊性、知识产权自身的公共政策性特征、民法诚实信用原则及禁止权利滥用原则和民法人文关怀的要求。

Punitive damages of intellectual property are a kind of civil liability and are the premise of the traditional compensatory damages. They are different in function, scope and calculation basis. Punitive damages of intellectual property have their own civil law basis, which is decided by the particularity of intellectual property infringement and the public policy characteristics. The application of punitive damages for inteUectual property is the requirement of good faith principle and the prohibition of the right abuse principle and is the embodiment of humanism in the civil law.