美國最高法院Illinois
Tool Works判決評析
與權利金計算基礎之研究(1)
林金榮[1]
美國最高法院在2006年Illinois Tool Works Inc. v.
Independent Ink, Inc.(547
在此案件判決對於美國專利法§271(d)(5)的意見出爐後,對於搭售合約或是包裹授權是否構成專利濫用及妨礙競爭,以及與市場影響力之間關係的看法也轉趨一致,也就是不得直接認定具有專利權的專利產品,即具有市場競爭力,而有構成違反反托拉斯法之虞。[4] (待續)
[1]筆者為道法法律事務所智權法律顧問部門主持律師,美國華盛頓大學智慧財產權法碩士,中興大學物理系/法律碩士,東吳法律博士班。
[2]Pg 543, Raymond T. Nimmer, Licensing of Intellectual Property and other information assets, 2nd edition.
[3] Holding: A product involved in a tying arrangement is not presumed to have market power for purposes of establishing an antitrust violation by the mere fact that it is patented. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded.
[4] Pg 1253, Robert Patrick Merges and John Fitzgerald Duffy, Patent Law and Policy: Cases and Materials, Fourth Edition.