盈科锋线团队律师代理被告在专利侵权案二审中获改判,赢得不构成等同侵权的全胜判决

盈科锋线团队王承恩律师和陈豪辉律师共同代理深圳某公司应对专利权人提起的侵害实用新型专利权纠纷一案,近日由广东省高级人民法院作出二审判决,撤销深圳市中级人民法院认定构成等同侵权的一审判决,驳回原告的全部诉讼请求。

专利权人起诉深圳某公司的两款产品侵害其某项实用新型专利权,深圳市中级人民法院作出一审判决,认定其中一款产品不落入涉案专利的保护范围,不构成侵权;同时,还认定另一款产品构成等同侵权。

被告深圳某公司不服提起上诉,结合专利权人在专利无效程序中的陈述,主张本案不应认定构成等同侵权,且被一审认定构成侵权的产品缺少涉案专利权利要求1中的一项技术特征,该产品不构成侵权。

广东省高级人民法院采纳了代理律师团队关于不构成等同侵权的意见,从而撤销深圳市中级人民法院的一审判决,驳回原告的全部诉讼请求。

Mr. Wang Chengen and Mr. Chen Haohui of the ACIES Team, jointly represented a company in Shenzhen in handling a case of dispute over infringement of the patent right for utility model filed by the patentee. Recently, the Guangdong Provincial Higher People’s Court made a second-instance judgment, revoked the first-instance judgment of the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court which determined that there was equivalent infringement, and rejected all the litigation requests of the plaintiff.

The patentee sued the company in Shenzhen, claiming that two of its products infringed upon a certain patent right for utility model of the patentee. The Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court made a first-instance judgment, determining that one of the products did not fall within the protection scope of the patent in question and did not constitute infringement; meanwhile, it also determined that the other product constituted equivalent infringement.

The defendant, the company in Shenzhen, filed an appeal in dissatisfaction. Combining the statements made by the patentee in the patent invalidation procedure, it claimed that equivalent infringement should not be determined in this case, and that the product determined to be infringing in the first instance lacked one technical feature in claim 1 of the patent in question, so this product did not constitute infringement.

The Guangdong Provincial Higher People’s Court adopted the opinions of the agent lawyer team on the non-existence of equivalent infringement, thus revoking the first-instance judgment of the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court and rejecting all the litigation requests of the plaintiff.

附二审判决书节选:

Excerpts from the Second-Instance Judgment

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