GUI外观设计专利发展趋势及侵权裁判规则

The Development Tendency and the Rederee Rules of the Infringement of GUI Design Patent

国家知识产权局第68号令将图形用户界面纳入我国外观设计专利的客体范围,是一个里程碑式的进步。图形用户界面有很多特点,涉及图形用户界面的产品大致可以分为五个类别,GUI外观设计专利在专利权利人属性、专利名称、专利视图、产品表现形式、设计要点和界面用途等方面都发生了令人惊喜的变化。故GUI外观设计专利侵权裁判规则在产品"相同类别、近似类别"的界定方面应进行更宽松的认定,在"整体观察、综合判断"的比对原则方面应根据新情况具体分析,制造、销售、许诺销售等侵权行为性质的认定也应产生了更细致的责任划分原则。

The State IP Office of China issued an order to revise guidelines of patent examination in No.68 statute, incorporating relevant as the milestone in the protection of GUI. Graphical user interface has many characteristics, and the products of that can be classified into five categories. The GUI industrial design patent has changed a lot pleasantly in the patent obligee attribute, the patent name, the patent view, the pattern of the product manifestation, the key points of design and the interface application. It has taken an looser identification in the definition of＂ the same classes, the similar classes＂ of products in the referee rules of the infringement of GUI design patent. It has analysed based on different conditions in the ＂overall observation, synthetic judgment＂ principles of comparison. The confirmation of the character has developed in detail in the infringement of manufacture,sale and offering for sale.