国外科研机构的专利保护情况最近参加中国科学院高级科技管理培训团赴德国考察,访问了马普学会等十几个部门,其中有7个部门的专家在介绍情况与讲课中涉及到知识产权的管理和保护,可见知识产权的保护与管理是何等重要。德国专利商标局是联邦政府的专利管理机构,德国专利制度的建立比英、美等国要晚,但在专利保护方面有许多独道之处。因而也是世界上有很大影响的国家之一。在德国,专利法只把发明专利作为保护对象,实用新型与外观设计分别依据实用新型法、外观设计法予以保护,植物新品种及其培育方法依据植物品种保护法加以保护。德国专利法对发明专利的保护范围相当广泛,除了诸如科学发现、智力活动或计算机程序、疾病的诊断与治疗方法等外,其它技术领域 Patent Protection of Foreign Research Institutions Recently, they attended a senior science and technology management training mission of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to visit Germany and visited more than a dozen departments such as the Maple Association. Among them, experts from seven departments involved in the introduction and lectures related to the management of intellectual property And protection, we can see how important intellectual property protection and management is. German Patent and Trademark Office is the federal government's patent management agencies, the establishment of the German patent system than the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries later, but there are many monopolistic aspects of patent protection. It is also one of the countries in the world that has great influence. In Germany, the patent law only takes the invention patent as the object of protection. The utility model and the design are respectively protected by the utility model law and the design law. The new plant variety and its cultivation method are protected according to the Plant Variety Protection Law. German patent law covers a wide range of invention patents. Apart from scientific discoveries, intellectual activities or computer programs, the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, etc., other technical fields