专利有效性仲裁问题的国际比较研究

在所有替代性纠纷解决机制中,仲裁具有不可替代的优势。世界范围内专利纠纷的仲裁案件大幅增多,导致专利有效性的仲裁问题成为世界各国研究的热点。本文通过对数个专利大国的相关法规和学说进行评述,指出赋予专利有效性问题可仲裁性是目前各国的发展趋势。但是,因为与公共政策可能发生冲突,对专利有效性的仲裁应当设置一定的限制条件,即裁决效力只应对当事人双方产生拘束力。

Among all dispute resolution processes alternative to litigation,arbitration has its own superiorities that can not be substituted.In the context of increasing caseload concerning patent disputes at the worldwide level,the issue of patent validity has been in hot research in almost all nations.Through reviewing relevant regulations and opinions,here arises a tendency qf arbitrating patent validity.As however might violate public policy,die arbitration of the patent validity may be put under,some restriction i.e.the resolution effect only binding involved parties.