摘要
专利侵权警告函是专利权人寻求私力救济的一种重要手段,也是协商解决侵权纠纷的重要途径之一。从专利侵权警告函发送现状来看,主要存在问题表现在发送主体、对象、内容、时间、方式不恰当等方面,其中发送内容和对象不当表现最为明显,有滥用趋势。警告函的接收者虽然可以通过“提起不正当竞争之诉”和“提起确认不侵权之诉”等诉讼方式寻求法律救济。可是,提起诉讼这一公权力救济方式属于事后救济模式且治标不治本。如何从根源规制专利侵权警告函的不当使用是我国司法实务中亟待解决的问题。本文从司法案例着手,借鉴域外相关司法经验并结合我国实践发展,从专利侵权警告函的适格性构成要件和明确不当发送警告函的法律责任两个方面对专利侵权警告函的使用规制提出建议。
Warning letter is an important method for patent owner to seek self-protection,and also an important way to resolve infringement disputes through negotiation.The main problems in current usage of patent infringement warning letters involve inappropriate senders,recipients,content,time and methods,among which,inappropriate content and recipients are especially obvious,leading to possible abuse.Although the warning letter recipients can seek legal remedies by way of bring an unfair competition action or filing an action affirming non-infringement,taking legal action,as a way of public remedy,only provides relief afterwards and is nothing but palliatives.It is an urgent problem for Chinese judiciary to fundamentally address the inappropriate usage of patent infringement warning letters.By analyzing judicial cases,learning from relevant extraterritorial judicial experiences,and taking into account of Chinese judicial development,the paper proposes to regulate the usage of patent infringement warning letters from two aspects,namely,the eligible constitutive requirements of such warning letters and clarifying the legal liability of inappropriate sending warning letters.
出处
《知识产权》
CSSCI
北大核心
2021年第5期56-67,共12页
Intellectual Property
基金
教育部人文社会科学研究项目支持(项目名称:我国知识产权密集型产业集群国际竞争力提升研究,编号:19YJA630012),为项目阶段性研究成果。
关键词
专利侵权警告函
滥用
恶意
惩罚性赔偿
不正当竞争
法律规制
patent infringement warning letter
abuse
malice
punitive damages
unfair competition
legal regulation
