禁止专利权滥用原则及其对反竞争效果之考察

The Doctrine of Patent Misuse and its Observations on AntiCompetitive Effect

专利法第四次修改增加了"禁止专利权滥用原则"的规定,其中,有关"不合理地排除、限制竞争"的内容被视为是对反垄断规则——"反竞争效果"的引入,这使得该法有规范反垄断法内容的嫌疑。美国相关司法实践在评判专利权人的行为是否构成滥用时,也考察其是否具有反竞争效果,但其意在严格"专利权滥用原则"的评判标准,而无意规范反垄断法的内容。对于我国专利法中所规定的有关反竞争效果的内容,亦应作出同样的解读。

The fourth amendment to the Patent Law added the doctrine of Patent Misuse,where in the content regarding ’unreasonably to exclude,restrict competition’ is regarded as an introduction of the antitrust principle of ’anti-competitive effect’,which places the Patent Law under the suspicion of regulating the content of Antitrust Law.The U.S.judicial practice also examines whether the alleged patentee’s behavior has anticompetitive effect when the judgment on whether it constitutes patent misuse is made,aiming to restrict the evaluation criteria of the doctrine of Patent Misuse rather than to regulate the content of antitrust law.We should also make the same interpretation on the content regarding anti-competitive effect provided by the Patent Law.