摘要
《国家知识产权战略纲要》明确提出要建立和完善专家证人诉讼制度。专家证人制度在各国,尤其是英美法系国家证据法中是不可或缺的重要制度,对于解决技术事实争议具有重要价值。近年来,知识产权审判实践一直在积极尝试技术专家证人制度的适用。即根据现行司法解释关于诉讼辅助人制度的规定,同时借鉴域外法的规定,探索当事人聘请专家证人与法庭指定专家证人相结合的方式,协助法庭查明相关技术事实。有关专家证人适格性标准、专家证人出庭方式、专家意见可采性标准以及裁判文书表述等的相关研究,一方面满足了解决技术事实认定难的司法现实需求,另一方面也为专家证人制度的进一步发展不断积累了经验。实践证明,通过司法实践不断加强实际操作,总结、研究并提炼相应规则,专家证人制度在知识产权诉讼中完全可以与传统司法技术鉴定制度并行存在并获得发展。尽管专家证人制度的建立和完善困难重重,但稳步推进是知识产权审判发展的必然趋势。
The Outline of the National Strategy of Intellectual Property Development specifies the introduction and improvement of the expert witness system in judicial procedure. Expert witness is an essential section of evidence law in other jurisdictions, especially in the US and England, and it is of special importance for the settlement of technical disputes. Recent years see the judicial procedure exploring and practicing the application of expert witness. The applicable judicial interpretation provides that tribunals, during the procedure of their hearing, can designate expert witness present before the court, to help with the finding of the technical facts, on the capacity of auxiliary witness of expert in light of exterritorial experiences. Much effort also has been attached to the exploration of eligibilities, the presence thereof before the court, and the qualities of admissibility of the testimonies of expert witness, as well as the expression of the opinions in the awards and decisions rendered by the court of justice. Our effort on the trial and practice, on one hand, meets the actual needs of discovery of the technical facts and accumulates necessary experiences thereabout, on the other hand, accumulates necessary experiences for the judicial settlement of technical disputes. We are glad to see that expert witness can be applied and function well in parallel with the traditional technical testimony in the judicial settlement of IP disputes by means of reinforcement of careful practice, summery and exploration of related rules and provisions. We strongly hold that the tendency of IP judiciary is in a process of stable progress of expert witness though it might be caught in difficulties.
出处
《知识产权》
CSSCI
北大核心
2013年第4期25-34,共10页
Intellectual Property
关键词
专家证人
法庭审判模式
专家证人意见可采性
expert witness
manners of court trials
admissibility of expert witness opinions
