技术专利化、专利标准化正不断成为一些企业占领市场优势地位的战略选择。将企业自身拥有的知识产权纳入广泛适用甚至唯一适用的行业标准,一方面加快了先进技术的推广应用,有利于社会进步,另一方面也带来了复杂的知识产权保护问题。FRAND原则作为专利标准化的重要规制手段,堪称标准必要专利许可的“帝王原则”,是知识产权法律与科技产业发展交叉融合的产物。随着技术标准与知识产权的融合不断深化,国内外与FRAND原则有关的司法案例也在迅速增加,使FRAND原则不仅成为司法上的热点,也成为产业竞争和专利运营的热点话题。但由于“公平、合理、无歧视”原则的内涵过于宽泛,而我国行政主导的技术标准制定体制也与国外市场主导的体制不同,对该原则的借鉴和移植也存在一定的障碍,因此有必要对这一原则进行深入研究和剖析。本论文首先运用传统的方法对FRAND原则的产生背景进行了梳理和研究,其次进一步澄清了FRAND原则的基本内涵和法律属性,并运用比较的方法,研究了国外典型案例的判决。最后通过梳理、分析和对比国内法的规制现状,给出了促进FRAND原则与我国现有制度有机融合的建议,指出要因地制宜、分级规制,并建议在我国《专利法》第四次修改中纳入相关规制条款。
<<It seems that having more standard essential patents(SEPs) has become a strategic choice for some enterprises to occupy the market dominant position.Enterprises choose to put their intellectual property rights into the widely used or even the only applicable industry standards,this has led to some challenges to us.On the one hand,it is conducive to the application of advanced technology and social progress.On the other hand,it has also brought complex problems to the protection of intellectual property.As an integration product of intellectual property and technology industry,the FRAND principle is an important way to regulate the standard essential patents,which is also called the emperor principle of SEPs licensing.With the development of the integration of technical standards and intellectual property,judicial cases related to the FRAND principle also increased rapidly at home and abroad,making it not only become the focus of judicial practice,but also become a hot topic of industry competition and patent operation.But due to the meaning of the principle“fair,reasonable and non discriminatory”is too abstract and China's characteristics of standard setting,it also brings some obstacles to the introduction and absorption of the principle.Therefore,it is necessary to carry out an in-depth study of the principle.Firstly,this paper use historical methods to study the background of the FRAND principle,than try to clarify the basic connotation of the principle and its legal attribute.Secondly,the paper use the method of comparison to study some typical cases of foreign countries.Finally,we try to give some reasonable suggestions on application of the principle in China,and point out that we should act according to circumstances,the FRAND principle should also be applied according to the actual situation of our country.
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