商业模式的可专利性——“专利银行”发明专利申请驳回复审案

On the Patentability of Business Model

包含技术特征的商业模式不仅整体上属于发明专利客体,而且涵盖其本身的计算机程序。目前我国商业模式的专利保护尚未达到相关产业发展需求,既要适当放宽商业模式的专利客体审查要求,又要适当降低商业模式的专利实质条件审查标准,还要给予商业模式专利所属公众领域足够的自由空间。

The business model including technical feature not only belongs to an invention patent subject as a whole,but also covers its own computer program.At present,the patent protection of business model in China has not yet met the need of the related industry development.It is necessary to not only properly relax the examination requirement to patent subject of business model,but also reduce the examination standard to the patent substantive conditions of business model appropriately,and provide sufficient free space for the public domain of business model.