专利侵权诉讼中瑕疵专利问题的司法优化路径

The Path to Judicial Optimization of Defective Patents in Patent Infringement Litigation

由于我国的专利确权纠纷解决机制承袭了德国的二元制体系,法院在瑕疵专利的侵权诉讼中无法对涉案专利的效力问题作出认定,导致现有救济模式的适用范围受限且救济成本较高,影响了诉讼效率与公平。为探究专利侵权诉讼中瑕疵专利的司法优化路径,引入以权利抗辩为核心的专利无效抗辩权,以公定力理论对行政确认行为在民事侵权诉讼的柔性限制、权利抗辩对请求权效力问题的回避,以及民事诉讼中将行政确权行为作为优势证据来论述专利无效抗辩权的合理性。

As Chinese patent validity dispute resolution mechanism inherited from the German dual system,the court cannot make a determination on the validity of the patent in question in the infringement litigation of defective patents,resulting in the limitations of the existing remedy model with limited scope of application and high application cost,which affects the efficiency of litigation and individual fairness.In order to explore the judicial optimization path of defective patents in patent infringement litigation,the patent invalidity defense with the right defense as the core is introduced.The reasonableness of the patent invalidity defense is discussed in terms of the flexible limitation of the theory of the public determination of administrative acts to civil infringement litigation,the property that the right defense does not evaluate the validity of claims,and the means of using administrative corroboration acts as the preponderance of evidence in civil litigation.