贵州苗医药传统知识的专利保护

Patent Protection for Traditional Knowledge of Miao Medicine in Guizhou Province

贵州省是我国传统医药开发进入产业化最早的地区。贵州省利用现行专利制度在苗医药研究开发等方面,获得了一批核心技术和关键技术发明专利权,以建立和强化在制药领域的国际竞争力。作为我国专利制度的核心,现行专利法和审查标准在本质上都是用西药的研究方法和思路来评价和保护传统医药,这在实践中对我国苗医药知识产权保护非常不利,使我国的苗医药产业的发展面临严峻的挑战。对此,我国应从苗医药等传统医药的特点出发,确立传统资源权制度,并重新审视和修订专利法律制度,建立体现传统医药特点的专利审查标准,强化对传统医药的专利保护,努力争取在世界范围内形成主导。

Guizhou Province is the first area in China in terms of the development of its traditional medicine being industrialized. This province acquires a series of patents with regard to some core and key technologies by way of the patent institution in development and research on Miao medicine, to establish and strengthen its international competitiveness in medicine field. The present patent law and its approving criteria adopt research methodologies of western medicine to evaluate and protect traditional Chinese medicine, which is unfavorable to and poses severe challenge for the development and protection of Miao medicine. As a way out, considering the specific characteristics we should establish the institution of right to traditional resources and revise the present patent law to form new patent approving criteria to bring stronger patent protection for traditional medicine and form our leading role in this respect in the world.