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最高人民法院审理的一起商业秘密侵权案件揭示了技术秘密保护的关键原则：即使技术方案中的单个步骤或参数已为公众所知，但作为整体的完整

The Supreme People's Court establishes a groundbreaking jurisdictional rule for method patent infringement cases involving large-scale equipment that requires on-site assembly and commissioning. This ruling addresses whether the location where equipment is assembled and debugged can serve as a valid jurisdictional connection point when the alleged infringement involves a method patent embedded in the equipment's operation.

The SPC concluded an appeal in an administrative dispute concerning the invalidation against an invention patent. The Court overturned both the first instance decision and the CNIPA's ruling. The case makes clear that when assessing inventiveness, courts and the CNIPA should avoid directly or simply assuming that a patented technical solution is obvious merely because it operates on the same principle. Inventiveness should not be easily dismissed with phrases such as "would have been easily thought of" or "would have been readily available."