专利善意侵权的法理分析与制度完善

Legal Theory Analysis and System Improvement of Patent Innocent Infringement

市场交易秩序的建立需要法律确保交易标的物权利人的专有利益,也需要法律保障诚实经营者的信赖利益,在交易信息足够公开透明的情况下,这两重利益并不会发生冲突。但在交易标的物为无形财产——专利的情况下,上述两重利益可能发生冲突,专利善意侵权制度的设计即是为了缓解这种冲突。虽然我国专利法规定了善意侵权制度,但与域外制度相比,我国法律需要在专利善意侵权主体、善意侵权证明标准、善意侵权民事责任承担等方面予以完善,以真正实现专利权人与善意侵权人利益的平衡。

Laws and regulations are required to ensure the exclusive interests of the owner of a subject matter and the reliance interests of the honest operators for the enforcement of the market transaction order.When the transaction information is sufficiently open and transparent,these two interests will not conflict.However,when the subject matter of the transaction is intangible property-patent,the above two interests may conflict.The patent innocent infringement system is designed to alleviate such conflicts.While compared with the extra-territorial system,China’s patent innocent infringement system need to be improved in the subject,the proof standard of good faith and bearing the civil liability to achieve the balance in protecting the legitimate interests between the patentee and the innocent infringer.