※ 引述《piglauhk (我要当阳光型男!!)》之铭言： : 最近想到一个问题 想请教一下各位先进 : IDS 的责任期间为何? : 目前查到的资料是: : 若前案(PA)在核准後、领证前出现 : 则自PA出现後3个月内可以提交IDS而不用提RCE : 亦即领证前出现的PR基本上都要提交PTO(?) : 但敝人的问题在於 领证後呢? 领证後有提交IDS的义务吗? : § 1.56 Duty to disclose information material to patentability. : Each individual associated with the filing and prosecution of a patent : application has a duty of candor and good faith in dealing with the Office, : which includes a duty to disclose to the Office all information known to that : individual to be material to patentability as defined in this section. The : duty to disclose information exists with respect to each pending claim until : the claim is cancelled or withdrawn from consideration, or the application : becomes abandoned. : 提出专利申请者....具有揭露可能影响该案专利性之己知文件之义务 : 该义务於 CLAIM被撤回、除消、或申请案被放弃时 方为中止 : 领证 好像不太符合上开 被撤回、除消、或申请被放弃 的要件... : 另外上开要件好像又不以申请期间为限? 搞不懂 (．＿．?) : 故此 想请教一下各位先进 美国专利在领证後 申请人是否具提交IDS之义务? : 若具有相关义务 又没执行的话 是否得以为主张专利无效之理由? : 以上 敬请先进们助为解惑 谢谢 个人认为领证後就没有这个义务 原因是如法条所载The duty...exists with respect to each "pending claim" unil... 领证後的claim本身就不符合pending claim的要件 故应无这个义务再去揭露领证後所知悉的资讯 另外 在Kimberly A. Moore(现任Fed Cir.法官)所着的Patent Litigaiton and Strategy书中 也明示了 "To succeed on a charge of ineqitable conduct, the accused infringer must prove that the patentee withheld material infromation from the PTO [during prosecution of the patent] with an intent to deceive" 所以个人认为这个duty of candor and good faith应仅存在於prosecution期间 --

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