无效宣告程序中当事人主体资格审查的思考

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1 专利申请的复审与专利权的无效宣告国家知识产权局专利复审委员会 1

2 一专利申请的复审单方当事人参与

3 1 复审程序国家知识产权局发明专利初步审查发明专利实质审查实用新型专利初步审查外观设计专利初步审查驳回决定 3 个月内提起复审请求

4 专利复审委员会进行形式审查国家知识产权局原审查部门进行前置审查是专利复审委员会做出决定是否同意撤销驳回决定否专利复审委员会进行合议审查回到国家知识产权局原审查部门继续审批程序

5 专利复审委员会进行合议审查发出复审通知书口头审理通知书或者两者结合的方式撤销驳回决定逾期未答复复审请求视撤 ; 口审通知书视撤的情形回到国家知识产权局原审查部门继续审批程序答复或进行修改

6 作出复审决定 3 个月内维持驳回决定起诉至北京市第一中级人民法院撤销驳回决定起诉至北京市第一中级人民法院上诉至北京市高级人民法院上诉至北京市高级人民法院法院判决维持复审委决定的回到国家知识产权局原审查部门继续审批程序

7 2 复审程序中应注意的问题关于请求原则关于听证原则关于申请文件的修改 7

8 二专利权的无效宣告请求当事人之间的争议

9 1 无效宣告程序的审查流程无效宣告请求提出复审委员会形式审查通知人民法院或地方专利管理局决定生效维持决定撤销决定北京市高级人民法院发出受理通知书并转送文件请求人北京市第一中级人民法院专利权人当事人不起诉送达当事人书面审查作出审查决定答复意见进入合议组审查决定口审并发出通知口头审理

10 2 提出无效宣告请求应当注意的问题如果认为专利存在不属于专利保护客体的问题, 一般应首先提出此无效理由有理有据, 在充分举证的基础上, 合理地运用证据对于所称的公知技术也应当举证证明或充分说理不需要提交证据支持的一般是 : 众所周知的事实自然规律及定律按照法律规定推定的事实以及根据日常生活经验法则推定的事实

11 2 提出无效宣告请求应当注意的问题充分利用补充证据的时机对于不能单独使用需要与其他证据形成证据链证明某一事实的, 还应具体分析不同证据之间如何彼此关联, 形成完整的证据链证明待证事实成立对于以专利权不具备新颖性和创造性等理由请求宣告无效的, 应当通过技术方案与现有技术的对比, 论述理由以专利不具备创造性为理由请求宣告无效的, 除了论证现有技术的结合能够覆盖专利权利要求记载的技术特征之外, 还应当着重分析为什么其结合对于所属技术领域的技术人员来说是显而易见的

12 3 答复无效宣告请求时应注意的问题 1 注意请求人和代理人资格核查 2 关于期限 3 关于一事不再理 4 正确把握答复的分寸 5 利用修改时机, 尽可能维持专利权

13 3 答复无效宣告请求时应注意的问题 6 适时提出反证 7 考虑无效宣告理由变更的可能性 8 考虑延期提交证据的可能性 9 注意禁止反悔原则 10 避免前后不一致的论述

14 修改案例相关事实说明 : (1) 本专利所要解决的技术问题是通过在背景技术所述方案基础上增加特征 D E 来实现的 (2) 请求人提供的对比文件 1 公开的技术方案即为本专利背景技术中的方案, 且该对比文件 1 公开了本专利权利要求 1 4 所述的方案 (3) 对比文件 2 3 分别公开了权利要求 2 3 的附加技术特征 D E, 且起的作用与本专利相同经分析, 如果专利权人不修改权利要求书, 请求人的无效理由成立, 该专利很可能被全部无效 14

15 7 合并式修改案例修改对策将同从属于权利要求 1 的权利要求 2 3 合并为一个新的独立权利要求具体修改为 : 1 一种装置 X, 其特征在于 :A B C D E 2 根据权利要求 1 所述装置 X, 其特征在于 :F 案例分析修改后的独立权利要求不仅构成了实现该专利发明目的的完整技术方案, 符合实施细则第 20 条第 2 款的规定 ; 相对于请求人提供的对比文件 1-3 具有新颖性 ; 对该权利要求的创造性也有充分的理由该专利有可能部分维持有效 15

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17 Re-examination of Patent Applications and Invalidation of Patents Patent Re-examination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office 1

18 Chapter 1 Re-examination of Patent Applications Participation of a unilateral party

19 1 Re-examination procedure The State Intellectual Property Office Preliminary examination of invention patents Substantial examination of invention patent Preliminary examination of utility-model patents Preliminary examination of design patents Decision rejection Within three months Submission of a request for re-examination

20 The Patent Re-examination Board conducting formal examination YES The Patent Re-examination Board making a decision The original examination department of the State Intellectual Property Office conducting pre-examination Do you agree to revoke the rejected decision? N O The Patent Re-examination Board conducting collegial examination Return to the State Intellectual Property Office to continue the approval procedure

21 The Patent Re-examination Board conducting collegial examination Issue notification on re-examination, notification on oral hearing or a manner combining the two Revoke the rejected decision Situation that the notification on re-examination or the notification on oral hearing shall be deemed to be withdrawn if the time limit for making response is not met Return to the original examination department of the State Intellectual Property Office to continue the approval procedure Answer or modify

22 Make a re-examination decision Maintain the rejected decision Revoke the rejected decision Within three months Sue to Beijing No. 1 Intermediate Court Sue to Beijing No. 1 Intermediate Court Appeal to Beijing Higher People's Court Appeal to Beijing Higher People's Court Court decision maintaining the decision of the Patent Re-examination Board of returning to the original examination department of the State Intellectual Property Office to continue the approval procedure

23 2 Issues that should be paid attention to in the reexamination procedure Upon request principles Upon hearing principles Upon modification of application documents 7

24 Chapter 2 Requests for Invalidation of Patents Disputes between the parties

25 1 Examination process of the invalidation procedure Submit a request for invalidation Inform people of court The Patent Re-examination Board or local patent administration conducting formal examination The decision entering into force Maintain the decision Revoke the decision Beijing No. 1 Intermediate Court Issue the Notification of Acceptance and transferring documents Claimant Beijing Higher People's Court Patentee The parties not suing Serve to the parties Written examination Make an examination decision Reply to comments Go to the collegial group to examine Decide oral hearing and posting notices Oral hearing

26 2 Issues that should be paid attention to for submitting the request for invalidation Generally, you should provide the invalid reason first, if thinking that the patent has a problem of not belonging to patent protection objects. Adequate reasoning and proofs. Using evidence reasonably based on adequate proofs, and providing evidence to prove the called known technology or reasoning adequately. What are not needed to submit evidence for support generally are well-known facts, natural law, facts referred and judged according to law and facts referred and judged according to routine experience and principles.

27 2 Issues that should be paid attention to for submitting the request for invalidation Making full use of the opportunity for supplementary evidence To the evidence which cannot be used alone and needs to form an evidence chain with other evidence so as to prove some fact, analyzing how different evidences are linked with one another concretely and forming a complete evidence chain to prove the to-be-proved fact holds water. For the patent rights which request invalidation by the reason that they are not novel and creative, discussing reasons through the comparison of the technical scheme with the prior art. For the patents which request invalidation by the reason that they are not creative, mainly analyzing why the combination of the prior art is obvious to the technical staff belonging to the technical field except that the combination of the prior art is demonstrated to be able to cover the technical characteristics recorded by patent claims.

28 3 Issues that should be paid attention to for answering the request for invalidation 1. Pay attention to qualification check of claimant and attorney 2. Upon time limit 3. Upon non bis in idem 4. Make answers correctly 5. Use the modification opportunity and maintaining the patent rights as far as possible

29 3 Issues that should be paid attention to for answering the request for invalidation 6. Disprove at the right time 7. Consider possibility of change for invalidation reason 8. Consider possibility of deferring to submit evidence 9. Pay attention to Principle of Estoppel 10. Avoid inconsistent discussions

30 Modification of cases Relevant facts show that: (1)The technical problems which this patent needs to solve is realized by increasing characteristics D and E based on the scheme stated in the background technology; (2)The technical scheme claimed in the comparison document 1 provided by the claimant is the scheme in the background technology of this patent and the comparison document 1 claims the schemes stated in claims 1 and 4 of this patent; (3)Comparison documents 2 and 3 respectively claim additional technical characteristics D and E of claims 2 and 3 and play a same role as this patent. The analysis shows that the invalidation reason of the claimant is tenable and all of the patent may be invalid if the patentee does not modify patent claims. 14

31 7 Combined modification of cases Modification of countermeasures The claims 2 and 3 belonging to the claim 1 are combined into a new and independent claim and specific modifications are that: 1, a device X, wherein A, B, C, D and E; and 2, the device X according to claim 1, wherein F. Analysis of cases The modified independent claim not only constitutes a complete technical scheme for realizing invention purpose of the patent but also is qualified to conduct the rule in paragraph 2 of article 20; Being novel relative to the comparison documents 1-3 provided by the claimant; Have adequate reasons for creativity of the claims. The patent may remain in effect partially. 15

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无效宣告程序中 当事人主体资格审查的思考

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