作者:李中圣  张晓霞  金杜律师事务所知识产权部

li_zhongsheng一、问题的提出

《专利法》第39条规定,发明专利申请经实质审查没有发现驳回理由的,由国务院专利行政部门作出授予发明专利权的决定,发给发明专利证书,同时予以登记和公告。发明专利权自公告之日起生效。《专利法》第59条规定,发明或者实用新型专利权的保护范围以其权利要求的内容为准,说明书和附图可以用于解释权利要求的内容。

上述条款的规定体现了专利权利公示的基本原则,即通过对专利权的公告,向社会公示专利的权利范围,使得社会公众可以基于该公示的权利要求,获知权利人的权利范围,同时社会公众[1]基于对于公示权利要求的信赖,依照该权利要求书来确定权利人的权利范围,并以此评估其经营活动的侵权风险。当专利权获得授权公告时,其权利范围已经固定,不允许权利人在专利获得授权后再对其公告的权利要求进行任意的修改。
Continue Reading PCT专利译文出错怎么解决?

By Kenneth Choy, Partner, Corporate, King & Wood–Hong Kong

The World Intellectual Property Organization, also known as WIPO, recently disclosed the number of international patent applications filed under its Patent Cooperation Treaty (“PCT”) for 2009. A copy of the release, entitled International Patent Filings Dip in 2009 Downturn (PR/2010/6), may be downloaded here. While the total number of PCT applications filed for the year was down compared to 2008, filings by applicants from East Asian countries actually grew with Japan, Korea and China ranking among the top five filing countries. Although the number of applications from the United States dropped by more than 11% to 45,700 applications, it still held its place on top of the rankings. Japan (2), Korea (4) and China (5) accounted for 45,839 PCT applications in 2009, about 30% of total filingsContinue Reading 30% Jump in Chinese WIPO Filings