Citaat | Parket bij de Hoge Raad 24 november 2017

Onder 2.24 Parket bij de Hoge Raad 24 november 2017

Een alinea uit Parket bij de Hoge Raad 24 november 2017, ECLI:NL:PHR:2017:1282.

The most pragmatic instrument of choice here is the cognitive faculties of a person skilled in the art, who is, on the basis of his knowledge and skill in the art, analyzing the patent claim and using the description and the drawings to interpret the claim [footnote 18: id. (mentioning explicitly the ‘consideration of the description and drawings by a person skilled in the art’ (emphasis added))]. The scope of the patent is determined by this person’s conclusions. It extends to any variant that is made obvious by the claim to the person skilled in the art [footnote 19: BGH 14-06-88, Case No. X ZR5/87 – Ionenanalyse, 22 IIC 249.]. On the one hand, this has the effect that the scope of the patent is proportionate to all subject-matter that can be done or carried out by the person skilled in the art, on the basis of the protected inventive achievement , without being inventive himself (to meet demand for fair protection). On the other hand, this extent of protection is (almost) becoming predictable by focusing on subject-matter, which is recognizable by a person skilled in the art, as being part of the protection conferred by the patent (to meet demand for legal certainty).” [onderstrepingen A-G]

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