试析我国的中药品种保护与中药专利保护

Analysis on the Protection for the Variety and Patent of Chinese Traditional Medicine in China

中药是我国传统医药以及传统文化的重要组成部分，目前在中药知识产权保护领域比较常用的手段是中药品种保护和中药专利保护。本文总结分析这两种保护方式的现状及各自存在的问题，指出二者存在权利冲突、不利于中药专利保护的发展、加重药品生产企业负担等矛盾．提出了协调中药品种保护与中药专利保护的途径——完善符合我国国情的中药知识产权立法．最终形成用专利来保护中药的模式。

Traditional Chinese medicine is an important component of traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese culture. Currently, the protection for the variety and patent of traditional Chinese medicine is a commonly used means in the field of intellectual property protection for traditional Chinese medicine. This paper summarizes and analyzes the present situation and the existing problems of these two kinds of protection modes; points out the existing rights conflict, which is against the development of patent protection for traditional Chinese medicine, and will aggravate the burden of pharmaceutical production enterprises; and puts forward the coordination approaches to the variety protection and patent protection, i.e： perfecting the legislation of intellectual property rights in traditional Chinese medicine which is in accordance with China＇s national conditions, and finally form the patent protection mode for traditional Chinese medicine.