论方法专利延伸保护的保护范围

Scope of Extension Protection in Process Patent

我国《专利法》提供了方法专利延伸到产品的延伸保护,对于此种延伸保护的保护范围,最高人民法院先后在两次司法解释中予以说明,然而,争议仍然存在。本文介绍了对司法解释的相关理解及批评意见;进而,以产品专利保护范围基本规则为分析手段,对方法专利延伸保护的保护范围进行了分析,以期消除对司法解释的错误理解、解决批评意见中所指出的问题;最后,针对方法专利延伸保护中除了“后续产品”之外的一些其他问题也进行了讨论。

Patent Law of China provides extended protection from process patents to product patents.And for that protection,the Supreme People's Court has explained twice in the judicial interpretation,however,the dispute still exists.This paper first introduces the relevant understanding and criticism of the judicial interpretation,then taking the basic rules of product patent protection scope as the means of analysis,analyzes the protection scope of method patent extension protection,hoping to eliminate the wrong understanding of judicial interpretation and solve the problems pointed out in the criticism,and finally discusses some other problems beyond follow-up product in the scope of extension protection in process patent.