美国最高法院2017年度知识产权判例解析

Annual Review on IP Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2017 Term

美国最高法院在2017年开庭期仅就三起知识产权案件作出判决,这是最近十年来数量较少的一次,但这些案件所处理的争议引发广泛关注,包括专利损害赔偿的计算、双方复审程序的合宪性、双方复审的裁决范围等。在这些争议的背后,还涉及诸如专利法的域外效力、专利权的财产权本质属性、法律解释等更加宏大的议题。它们对于深入理解专利法具有重要意义。

There are only 3 decisions concerning intellectual property issues which have been made by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2017 term. Although the amount is the least in the last decade, the subject matters of these cases are of big controversy, such as the lost profits of overseas as damages, constitutionality of the inter partes review, the scope of the inter partes review. Behind these questions, there are more general issues in the theory, i.e., the extraterritorial effects of the patent act, the private property nature of the patent and rules of legal interpretation. They are of importance for further understanding in this feld.