局部外观设计引入背景下GUI外观设计侵权判定研究

Research on Infringement Determination of GUI Design under the Background of Partial Design Introduction

2020年修订的《中华人民共和国专利法》正式将局部外观设计纳入保护范围,为GUI外观设计的保护提供立法支撑。但囿于实践经验的缺乏,GUI外观设计专利侵权判定面临诸多现实困境,GUI外观设计专利的权利保护范围、产品载体制度和软件服务制造商侵权行为认定等方面仍有待完善。本文借鉴金山诉触宝案的裁判经验,从界定GUI局部外观设计权利范围入手,在肯定GUI外观设计以产品为载体的基础上,进一步完善了GUI外观设计产品名称规则,并为解决GUI软件服务制造商侵权行为的认定难问题,提出了间接侵权规则可作为解释论包含于直接侵权规则中的建议。

The“Patent Law of the People’s Republic of China”amended in 2020 have officially incorporated partial designs into the scope of protection,which provided legislative support for the protection of GUI designs.However,due to the lack of practical experience,the determination of GUI design patent infringement is faced with dilemma.The scope of protection of GUI design patents,the product carrier system and the determination of infringement by software service manufacturers and other aspects are in urgent need of improvement.Drawing on the adjudication experience of Jinshan v.TouchPal,starting with defining the scope of GUI partial design rights,the product name rules for GUI design are further improved on the basis of affirming that GUI design is based on products.It is suggested that the indirect infringement rule could be included in the direct infringement rule as an interpretation theory so as to solve the difficult problem of identifying infringement by GUI software service manufacturers.