商业方法专利保护:美、日、欧的实践及其启示

商业方法对电子商务发展所具有的潜在的巨大经济价值,使得各国对是否给予专利保护做出了不同的制度选择。从美、日、欧对商业方法专利保护的历史发展可以看出,其更多的是从其产业政策角度在司法判例中对专利保护范围做出新的诠释,从而使其专利保护紧密配合市场需要,美、日、欧的这一做法对我国具有重要的启示作用。

Patent Protection for Business Approaches:Revelation from the Practices in USA,Japan and Europe

Due to the great potential economic values of business approaches in the advancement of e-business,various countries in the world make different choices of system on whether to grant these approaches the patent protection.As witnessed from the history of patent protection for business approaches in the USA,Japan and Europe,those protections tend to be more concerned in the perspective of industrial policy to make a new interpretation to the scope of patent protection in judicial practice so as to match the ...