試析專利文獻附圖事實認定的標準和方法

Tentative Studies of Standards and Methods for Factual Findings of Drawings in Patentl Documents

在新穎性和創造性的判斷過程中,現有技術作局客觀存在的技術資料,其公開内容的判斷不同於證據形式以及法律適用的判斷,不存在法律推理和價值評價,應該以本領域技術人員的角度客觀認定事實,限制自由裁量權的使用。

In the assessment of novelty and inventive step,the judgement of disclosure in prior art,as an objectively exist ing technical material,is different from the judgment of evi dence form and application of law as the former does not re quire legal reasoning and value evaluation,and factual find ings thereof shall be objectively determined from the per spective of those skilled in the art to restrict the exercise of discretionary powers.