从抵触申请之属性看专利风险的规避

Prevention of Potential Risk for Patent from Perspective of Conflicting Applications

现行法规规定发明/实用新型与外观设计之间不构成抵触申请,然而,实践操作中,在复审委员会的复审、法院的行政诉讼、侵权诉讼等各种程序中,对于发明/实用新型与外观设计是否能构成抵触申请有不同的理解和适用。从现有规定出发,分析抵触申请的内在属性,从而对申请人的专利申请策略提出建议,以期尽可能规避风险。

The current regulations stipulate that there is no conflict between the invention/utility model and the design.However,in practice,there are different interpretations and applications on this point in various proceedings,such as reexamination of the Patent Reexamination Board,the administrative proceedings of the court,the lawsuits and so on.On the basis of the existing regulations,the author analyzes the intrinsic properties of the conflicting application,and makes suggestions for the patent application strategy,in order to avoid the potential risk as much as possible.