再议知识产权的重叠保护——以外观设计后续保护为例

Rediscussing the Overlapping Protection of Intellectual Property Rights—Taking the Subsequent Protection of Appearance Design as an Example

知识产权是否应当重叠保护在学界一直未有统一定论,而我国司法实践在外观设计专利法保护与其他知识产权保护的关系上同样有着很大分歧。由于外观设计兼具“修饰性”和“功能性”,在维权中往往面临重叠保护问题,因此本文拟从外观设计的后续保护入手,试图明晰知识产权重叠保护的正当性,并在此基础上提出“有条件的知识产权重叠保护原则”,以期统一司法对于重叠保护的认知,减少司法实践中的对立判决,从而促进我国知识产权保护的协调一致。

There has been no unified conclusion in the field as to whether intellectual property rights should overlap protection. However, there has been much divergence in our judicial practice on the relationship between the protection of patent law and other intellectual property protection. Since appearance design is both “decorative” and “functional”, it often faces the problem of overlapping protection in safeguarding rights. Therefore, this paper, starting from the subsequent protection of appearance design, at-tempts to clarify the legitimacy of overlapping protection of intellectual property, and proposes “principle of conditional overlapping protection of intellectual property” on this basis, in order to unify judicial cognition of overlapping protection, reducing the opposing judgments in judicial prac-tice so as to promote the coordination of our intellectual property protection.