The patent invalidation system in current Chinese Patent Law has always been a question under debate. Consequently, whether the related judicial proceeding is administrative litigation or civil litigation is also debatable. Under current system, the Patent Re-Examination Board of SIPO and the courts apply different procedure rules in determining the validity of patents. To solve this and other problems, the simplest way is to establish the Intellectual Property Appellate Court, and give it jurisdiction over both patent infringement appeal cases and patent invalidation cases nationwide. The Intellectual Property Appellate Court should have the authority to directly determine the patent validity. The Patent Re-Examination Board of SIPO should be regarded as an adjudicative organ, and thereby cannot be the defendant in the appeal cases. With these reforms, the problems currently exist in the Patent Law can be solved.%在我国，专利法中专利权无效制度的性质一直存在争议，由此导致包括法院的司法救济当属行政诉讼还是民事诉讼的争论。在现行制度下，专利复审委与法院在判定专利有效性问题时分别使用不同的程序规则。类似的问题还有不少。要解决这些问题，最为简捷的做法就是结合知识产权上诉法院的设计，赋予知识产权上诉法院同时管辖全国侵犯专利权的上诉案件和专利无效宣告决定的案件；且知识产权上诉法院可就专利有效性直接做出裁判；并将专利复审委视作一级司法审判机关，进而不再将其作为上诉案件的被告。通过这几个方面的变革，即可克服目前专利法中存在的问题。
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