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1973年在慕尼黑签署的欧洲专利公约,标志着各缔约国在专利法上的一个重要转折点。虽然该公约的主要目的是为授予欧洲专利提供一项有效的机制,但为达到这一目的还必须确保缔约国的实体专利法能够相互协调。不管怎样,1963年的斯特拉斯堡公约已为协调任务打下了相当的基础。对我们来说,斯特拉斯堡公约的最重要的决定之一就是以下协议,即专利申请的作用在于划定专利权的范围。这一规定被欧洲专利公约的起草人所采纳并且规定在该公约的第69条之中。然而,欧洲专利公约的起草人所面临的问题之一是担心专利法的协调遭到各国法院特有的解释的阻挠。在某种程度上讲,正是对解释偏差的担心才致使公约的起草人
The European Patent Convention, signed in Munich in 1973, marked an important turning point in Patent Law among Contracting States. Although the main purpose of the Convention is to provide an effective mechanism for the granting of European patents, it must also ensure that the substantive patent law of the contracting States is compatible with each other. In any case, the Strasbourg Convention of 1963 laid a good foundation for coordination. For us, one of the most important decisions of the Strasbourg convention is the agreement that the role of a patent application is to delineate the scope of the patent. This provision was adopted by the drafters of the European Patent Convention and laid down in Article 69 of the Convention. However, one of the problems facing drafters of the European Patent Convention was the concern that the harmonization of patent laws was hampered by the specific interpretations of national courts. To some extent, it is precisely the fear of interpretations that led to the drafting of the convention