The paper aims to study the effect of "partial elements" on the overall judgment principle of design patent in order to draw the conclusion that partial design patent should be introduced in legislation. With the change of the level of legal fictional characters , more and more "partial elements" have important influence on the judgment of identical or similar design. However, because the partial elements verified by judicial procedures haven't been coincided with rights holders' intentions, and partial elements recognized by all-level administrative and judicial organs has been discordant radically, which has dazzled the prediction of the right holders, hence"partial elements" can't replace the functions played by partial design in legal practice. Some new problems in the protection of graphical user interface (GUI) cannot be solved by introducing partial design patent.%旨在通过梳理实务中"局部要素"对外观设计整体判断原则的影响,得出是否有必要在立法上引入局部外观设计的结论.在我国没有规定局部外观设计制度的现状下,随着法律拟制的判断主体水平的变化,越来越多的"局部要素"对外观设计的相同或近似性判断产生重要影响.但由于部分法院确定的"局部要素"与权利人意图保护的局部并不一致,再加上行政保护机关和各级法院对"局部要素"的判断大相径庭而难以提前预测判断结果,"局部要素"在实务中仍无法替代局部外观设计的作用.图形用户界面(GUI)保护的新问题无法通过引入局部外观设计制度解决.
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