The Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Laws in the Trial of Patent Infringement Disputes gives the following answers on how to protect appearance patents:
Article 9 The people's court shall determine whether the product types are the same or similar according to the uses of the design products. To determine the use of a product, you can refer to the brief description of the design, the international design classification table, the function of the product, the sales and actual use of the product and other factors.
Article 10 The people's court shall judge whether the designs are identical or similar according to the knowledge level and cognitive ability of ordinary consumers of patented products.
Article 11 When determining whether the designs are identical or similar, the people's court shall make a comprehensive judgment based on the design features of the authorized design and the accused infringing design and the overall visual effect of the design; Design features mainly determined by technical functions, and features such as materials and internal structures that have no influence on the overall visual effect of products should not be considered.
The following conditions usually have a great influence on the overall visual effect of the design:
(1) The parts that are easily observed directly during normal use of the product are relative to other parts;
(2) The design features of the authorized design that are different from the existing design are relative to other design features of the authorized design.
If there is no difference in the overall visual effect between the accused infringing design and the authorized design, the people's court shall consider it the same; If there is no substantial difference in the overall visual effect, it should be considered that the two are similar.
patent law of the people's republic of china
Article 11 After the patent right for invention and utility model is granted, except as otherwise provided in this Law, no unit or individual may exploit the patent without the permission of the patentee, that is, it may not manufacture, use, promise to sell, sell or import the patented product for production and business purposes, nor may it use the patented method and use, promise to sell, sell or import the product directly obtained according to the patented method.
After the design patent is granted, no unit or individual may exploit its patent without the permission of the patentee, that is, it may not manufacture, promise to sell, sell or import its patented product for production and business purposes.
Article 65 The amount of compensation for patent infringement shall be determined according to the actual losses suffered by the obligee due to the infringement; If the actual loss is difficult to determine, it can be determined according to the interests obtained by the infringer due to infringement. If it is difficult to determine the loss of the obligee or the interests of the infringer, it shall be reasonably determined by reference to the multiple of the patent license fee. The amount of compensation shall also include the reasonable expenses paid by the obligee to stop the infringement.
If it is difficult to determine the loss of the obligee, the benefits obtained by the infringer and the patent license fee, the people's court may determine the compensation of more than 1 10,000 yuan and less than1100,000 yuan according to the type of patent right, the nature and circumstances of the infringement.
Tort Liability Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)
Fifteenth ways to bear tort liability are:
(1) Stop the infringement;
(2) remove obstacles;
(3) eliminating danger;
(4) returning property;
(5) restitution;
(6) Compensation for losses;
(7) apologize;
(eight) to eliminate the influence and restore the reputation.
The above tort liability methods can be applied separately or in combination.