Invention Undermined 逐漸損壞的發明

■■October 23, 2007

■Invention Undermined 逐漸損壞的發明

Bryan Zerhusen of McCarter & English opines that KSR & the new USPTO obviousness examination Guidelines ring a death knell for many constitutionally patentable inventions: It is now apparent that in the view of the USPTO, KSR went much further than previously thought in eroding the certainty established by decades of Federal Circuit precedent. Taken together, KSR and the Guidelines result in an unfair system where the spirit of Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the Constitution has been undermined. Furthermore, in some fields of art it seems as though only pioneering inventions are likely to be patentable.

Bryan Zerhusen of McCarter & English 對KSR判決及USPTO新的非顯而易知性的審查基準發表意見，認為它們為許多本質上具可專利性的發明敲起喪鐘。非常明顯地，觀察USPTO可知，KSR嚴重脫離習知見解，CAFC數十年所建立之判例的確定性，正被侵蝕中。KSR和此基準一起造成不公正的、且憲法第一條第八段第八節之精神已被逐漸損壞的系統。甚者，在一些技術領域中，似乎僅有先驅型發明才能取得專利。

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