Research On Intellectual Property Involved In Search Engine

Search engine can help online users find what they need indeed from various information on Internet conveniently and quickly, which makes it very popular with most of people. According to some data coming from PIALP, online users more and more depend on search engine service when surfering on Internet, and then, search engine has been the second service applied most widely, behind E-mail. It is known, along with access amount of online users to some websites providing search engine service increasing rapidly, those providers inevitably obtain abundant profits. Driven by substantive benefit, the competition during search engine market became more and more drastical, varieties of issues in law appear, including a mass of infringements referring to intellectual property. In order to standardize rationally and improve our search engine market, and meanwhile balance the benefits among online search engine provider, intellectual property owner and social public, the author put forward this title, and research on it.The thesis contains eight parts. Firstly, it introduced the setting, purpose to select this topic, and researchful actuality in & out our country, and then gave the innovative points in article. In part two, through analyzing search engine's operating elements and technology characteristics, intellectual property risk involved in search engine is brought forward, which concentrated on the main points for states afterwards according to system of Intellectual Property Law. During the third part, the author focused on copyright concerning search engine, discussed different copyright infringements separately existing in technology application & service types of search engine, combined with legal analysis to relative cases, and searched for elusion to resolve and avoid this risk. Till part four, after introducing two kinds of infringing activities related to trademark right familiar in search engine area, and parsing corresponding convictive law case, the writer gave some measure's how to settle that infringement. Part five is about the patent dissension concerning search engine, which mainly behaved the ownership issue of technology patent applied to search engine, the author put the patent dispute between Baidu & Yahoo for example, and judged nomological the sentence possibly. Similarly, along with case explanation, part six set out various unfair competition infringements in search engine...