The Acknowledgement and Understanding of Foreign Legal Doctrines in Patent Cases in Thailand

ผู้แต่ง

  • Jade Donavanik Faculty of Law, College of Asian Scholars

คำสำคัญ:

สิทธิบัตร, กฎหมายสิทธิบัตรไทย, คำพิพากษา, หลักกฎหมาย, การรับรู้, คดีสีลม, คดีแม็คโครฟาร์

บทคัดย่อ

As commonly known by scholars particularly those who work on patent issues that the patent law was originally created in industrialized countries, where technological development and the progress of science have flourished the most. What perpetually follows from there has continually been a great number of litigations on various patent issues, including infringement and invalidation lawsuits, stemming for one reason from high competition in those aforesaid countries. As a consequence, people in the patent realm, specifically courts in those countries have
abundant resources to utilize as tools to originate legal doctrines for the courts themselves as well as all related parties to be able to rely upon when cases occur. Thailand, as a country that has just adopted the patent law into its legal sphere around half a century ago as compared to several centuries in countries like the European countries or the United States, still lags behind on the aspect of generating patent legal doctrines. The research leading to this article, therefore, seeks to submit a proposition for all interested parties, specifically the courts to make the acknowledgement and develop the understanding of foreign legal doctrines on patents, and adjust them to be in line with the Thai laws and use them as the foundation to create the country’s own patent legal doctrines. The foreign legal doctrines on patents chosen mostly from case law of the United States as they related to the Thai cases studied by the research selectively and exemplary proposed include the doctrines of claim construction, claim differentiation, prosecution history disclaimer, prosecution history estoppel, literal infringement, infringement by doctrine
of equivalents, anticipation, obviousness, clear and convincing evidence and analogous arts. 

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