关于专利创造性判断中的事实认定剖析

Analysis of Fact-Finding In Patent Creativity Judgement

【目的】专利权的授予过程需要对专利申请进行谨慎且可靠的审查,相应地需要对技术方案的创造性标准做出合理的要求。【方法】以创造性判断过程中常见的事实认定的判断为切入点,从隐含公开、特征的限定作用、特征之间的关联性等角度探讨了如何准确进行事实认定。【结果】在创造性判断的过程中,需要以事实为依据,其判断的对象是技术本身,技术事实与法律问题密不可分。【结论】以专利申请的整体技术构思为基础,通过将具体特征的表达形式代入整体技术方案中,从技术问题、技术手段和技术效果三个方面考虑实现对于技术特征事实的准确把握,进而提高创造性判断准确性。

[Purposes]The patent granting process requires a careful and reliable review of patent applications,and accordingly requires reasonable requirements for the creativity criteria of technical solutions.[Methods]This study takes the judgment of common fact-finding in the process of creative judgment as the starting point,and discusses how to accurately determine the facts from the perspectives of implicit disclosure,the limiting role of features,and the correlation between features.[Findings]In the process of creative judgment,it is necessary to be based on facts.The object of judgment is technology itself,and technical facts are inseparable from legal issues.[Conclusions]Based on the overall technical scheme of the patent application,through putting specific features into the overall technical scheme,the accurate grasp of the technical features from three aspects of technical problems,technical means and technical effects is achieved,which is helpful to improve the accuracy of creative judgment.