医药化学领域发明专利现有技术适格性判断路径研究

A Research on the Existing Technologies Suitability Determination Path for Invention Patents in the Field of Medicine and Chemistry

摘要:

创造性是发明专利申请能被授予专利权的必备条件之一,我国目前通常采用 三步法 来判断发明专利是否具备创造性,无论是第一步的“确定最接近的现有技术”环节,还是第三步的“判断是否显而易见”环节,均需要专利审查人员从诸多现有技术中选择适格的对比文件。本文将结合医药化学领域发明专利的特点,对该领域专利审查过程中现有技术的适格性判定要点进行梳理和深入分析,尝试从审查员初步认定、发明人协助校正以及技术调查官介入三个维度,构建现有技术适格性判断的基本路径,以期为提升专利审查质量提供思考及决策支持。

Abstract:

Creativity is one of the necessary conditions for a patent application to be granted. At present, we usually adopts the "three-step method" to determine whether a patent for invention is inventive in China, whether it is the first step of "determining the closest existing technologies" or the third step of "determining whether it is obvious", which requires the patent examiner to select suitable comparative documents from many existing technologies. In this paper, we try to analyze and sort out the key points of existing technologies suitability determination in the process of patent examination in the field of medicine and chemistry, and try to construct the basic path of existing technologies suitability determination from three dimensions: preliminary determination by examiners, correction by inventors and intervention by technical investigators, with a view to providing thoughts and decision support for improving the quality of patent examination.