技術效果與晶型專利的創造性認定

Technical Effect and Determination of Inventive Step of Crystal Form Patents

因創造性條款的本質在于保護發明人與獲得技術方案所付出的創造性勞動,故通常情況下,訴爭專利是否具備創造性,考慮的是技術方案的獲得是否顯而易見。但實踐中亦存在例外情形。對于藥品專利,尤其是晶型專利而言,技術效果在創造性認定中具有著重要意義。

The provision on inventive step is essentially to protect the creative efforts made by an inventor for acquiring a technical solution.Therefore,generally speaking,consideration shall be given to whether the acquisition of the technical solution is obvious when deciding whether a disputed patent possesses an inventive step.However,there are also exceptions in practice.