專利審查中的聽證原則

Study on the Hearing Principle in Patent Examination

听證制度作為行政程序法的核心已經被多數國家廣泛接受，1996年《行政處罰法》在我國法律體系中首次引入了听證制度，這是我國民主法制建設的一大進步。專利審查作為一種行政行為，同樣應當遵守听證原則。目前我國專利審查實踐中已經明確將听證原則作為專利審查的一項基本原則，但由於專利審查自身的特點以及具體程序規定的缺失，對於听證原則在專利審查實踐中的一些問題一直存在著較大爭議。從專利審查行為的一般性質入手，研究了專利審查听證作為一種行政听證應滿足的一些基本規則，並根據專利審查自身的特點，針對听證原則在复審程序中的應用，提出改進辦法和可行性建議。

In recent years, it has been widely accepted that the hearing system is becoming the soul of administration procedure laws by most countries. The law of administrative penalty introduced the hearing principle into the legal system of our country in 1996 for the first time, which is a great progress of China’s democracy and legal system construction. As one of administrative behavior patent examination shall abide by the hearing principle as the same. At present patent hearing system has already been conifrmed as a basic principle of patent examination in our examination practice. However there have been a lot of problems in the great disputes in patent examination relating to hearing principle because of the characteristics of patent examination and the absence of specific provisions for the application of hearing procedure. In order to solve above problems this paper studies the basic rules that the patent examination hearing as an administrative hearing should satisfy from the general nature of the patent examination. Further, this paper puts forward the improvement measures and feasible suggestions about the main problems that the hearing principle in reexamination combining the characteristics of patent examination.