Author(s)

Zhuoxuan Xu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310018, China

Corresponding Author

Zhuoxuan Xu

ABSTRACT

Under the background of building an intellectual property power, the number of patent applications and authorizations in China has shown explosive growth. At the same time, the number of patent-related civil disputes is also rising rapidly year by year. However, from the actual situation, problems such as difficult to prove evidence, high cost of safeguarding rights and low compensation amount have become a common phenomenon in judicial practice in the field of patent infringement in China. The compensation principle in the traditional civil law cannot solve these difficulties effectively. To address this challenge, Article 71 of the Fourth Amendment to the Patent Law, which came into effect on June 1, 2021, formally established China's system of punitive damages for patent infringement. Before the State Intellectual Property Office issued the revised draft, through visits and field investigations, it was found that the key to stopping patent infringement and protecting patent rights is to increase the amount of compensation, so the introduction of punitive damages is particularly important. However, there is still a dispute about whether punitive damages can be applied in the civil field.

KEYWORDS

Patent Law; Unitive Damages; Legal Provisions; Patent Infringement; Safeguard Rights

CITE THIS PAPER

Zhuoxuan Xu. Research on the Necessity of Punitive Damages Stipulated in Patent Law. Science of Law Journal (2024) Vol. 3: 111-117. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/DOI: 10.23977/law.2024.030714.

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