中美图形用户界面外观设计专利保护研究

发布时间：2018-04-23 01:35

本文选题：图形用户界面 + 外观设计专利权　；参考：《华东政法大学》2015年硕士论文

【摘要】：随着电子行业的迅速发展,各种电子用户终端,如传统电脑、平板电脑、手机等已经成为人们日常生活中常见甚至必不可少的用品,应用于这些终端上的图形用户界面更是数以万计,发展迅猛。在这个体验为王的时代,用户就是一切。为了争夺用户,各大企业都将目光投向图形用户界面,不惜投入大量时间、资金来研发出更加具有竞争力的图形用户界面。这就使得各种新颖方便又美观的图形用户界面层出不穷,企业相互之间的竞争也愈演愈烈。各大企业在不断投入大量时间和资金研发更具用户吸引力的图形用户界面的同时也必然希望能通过知识产权的手段把自己辛苦研发的图形用户界面保护起来。保护力度强,不需要像著作权一样必须经受思想与表达二分法的考验,这些都是外观设计专利的优势,因而其受到了社会各界的广泛关注。电子产品行业、计算机行业都属于新陈代谢非常快速的行业,不断地推陈出新是其特点,图形用户界面在其所依附产业的推动下也在迅猛发展,新设计层出不穷,伴随着它的就是越来越强烈的对外观设计专利给予保护的需求。面对这种现实情况,国知局做出了回应,将《审查指南》中一直广受诟病的“产品通电后图案”不能被授予外观设计专利权的规定删除,同时也排除了一些不得授予外观设计专利权的带图形用户界面的产品,主要是涉及到和人机交互无关的一些产品。这样一来,外观设计专利对图形用户界面算是敞开了大门,即使仍有一部分不能被授权,但与以往相比已经是非常大的一个改变。国知局通过颁布《审查指南》来指导专利审查工作,当发现实践中出现了一定的问题时,可以及时作出相应的调整。但是,法律不一样,法律具有稳定性,因此,本次虽然实践中授予图形用户界面外观设计专利权的障碍消除了,但由于专利法没有修改,外观设计专利法一直存在的问题,如客体问题,依然存在。特别是在面对图形用户界面这一典型的部分外观设计时,如何缓解和现有制度的冲突?如何完善我国的图形用户界面外观设计专利保护?本文就是以此为研究的主题。在这个思路下,文章结构安排如下所述。除引言外,本文按照上述思路分为三章。第一章——提出问题并对问题进行分析研究。主要是作为部分外观设计的图形用户界面和我国的整体保护原则的冲突。第二章——借鉴美国的外观设计专利的经验。从图形用户界面在美国的外观设计专利制度下从不保护到保护的历程和美国的外观设计的制度设计两个方面进行分析。在专利保护历程一节,从萌芽期、困惑期、试验期、发展期三个时期进行研究分析;在制度设计一节,主要是美国对外观设计专利不进行单独立法,并规定了部分外观设计制度。第三章——提出完善我国GUI外观设计保护的建议。主要从选择合适的保护策略以及选择其他的保护方式两方面提出建议。
[Abstract]:With the rapid development of electronic industry, a variety of electronic user terminals, such as traditional computers, tablets, mobile phones and so on, have become a common and even indispensable thing in people's daily life. The graphical user interface applied to these terminals is tens of thousands, and the development is swift and violent. In an age when the experience is king, the user is everything. In order to compete for users, all the major enterprises are looking to the graphical user interface, invest a lot of time, money to develop a more competitive graphical user interface. This makes a variety of novel, convenient and beautiful graphical user interfaces emerge in endlessly, and the competition between enterprises is becoming more and more intense. While investing a lot of time and money to develop a more attractive graphical user interface, the major enterprises must also hope to protect their hard-working graphical user interface through the means of intellectual property. Strong protection does not need to be tested by the dichotomy of thought and expression just like copyright. These are the advantages of design patents, so they have received wide attention from all walks of life. Electronic products industry and computer industry belong to the industry of fast metabolism. It is characterized by constantly bringing forth the old and new. The graphical user interface (GUI) is also developing rapidly under the impetus of its dependent industry, and new designs are emerging in endlessly. It is accompanied by a growing demand for protection of design patents. In the face of this reality, the State Administration of Public Information responded by deleting the "product design design" which has been widely criticized in the "Guide to Review", which cannot be granted a patent on a design. At the same time, it also excludes some products with graphical user interface that can not be granted the patent of design, mainly involving some products which are not related to human-computer interaction. As a result, design patents open the door to graphical user interfaces, even if some of them cannot be licensed, but this is a very big change from the past. By promulgating the "examination Guide" to guide the patent examination work, the National knowledge Bureau can make corresponding adjustments in time when certain problems appear in practice. However, the law is different, and the law is stable. Therefore, although the barriers to granting patent rights to graphical user interface designs in this practice have been removed, since the patent law has not been amended, there have always been problems in the patent law on design. Such as the object problem, still exist. Especially in the face of the graphical user interface, a typical part of the design, how to mitigate the conflict with the existing system? How to improve the patent protection of graphic user interface design in China? This paper is the subject of this study. Under this train of thought, the structure of the article is arranged as follows. In addition to the introduction, this article is divided into three chapters according to the above ideas. The first chapter puts forward the problem and analyzes the problem. Mainly as part of the graphical user interface design and our overall protection principles conflict. Chapter 2-draw lessons from the experience of American design patents. This paper analyzes the process of never protecting the graphical user interface under the patent system of design in the United States and the institutional design of the design in the United States. In the section on the course of patent protection, it is studied and analyzed in three periods: the budding period, the confused period, the experimental period, and the development period; in the section of institutional design, it is mainly that the United States does not legislate separately on the design patent. And has stipulated part of the design system. The third chapter puts forward the suggestion of perfecting the protection of GUI design in our country. Suggestions are put forward from two aspects: choosing appropriate protection strategy and choosing other protection methods.
【学位授予单位】：华东政法大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2015
【分类号】：D923.42

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