我国中药知识产权保护的现状

The Actuality of the Protection of th e Intellectual Property Right of TCM in China

由于我国知识产权制度建立较晚,还不够完善,加上中药许多自身的特点,现有的保护中药知识产权的规章制度很难为中药的知识产权提供充分的保护。因此,在国内经常出现中药知识产权被侵犯而法律法规无法解决的情况。一些新药被某些企业开发生产以后,很快就被其它企业仿制,导致从事研究开发的企业得不到应有的回报,影响和限制了我国中药事业的发展。又由于中药和西药差别很大。发达国家的知识产权制度可为西药提供健全的保护,而中药的自身特征则与这种制度不符,很难获得发达国家的保护。这使在国际上传播中药文化和开拓中药国际市场非常困难。本文从专利保护、行政保护、商标保护和商业秘密保护4个方面分析了我国中药知识产权保护的现状;提出中药的知识产权保护,除运用现有的办法外,应当着重改善和加强中药的专利保护,结合中药特点,对我国中药的专利保护提出了建议。

s: As every other medicine,Chinese Tra ditional Medicine that has huge commercial value is the achievement of hu manintelligence activities,which should be protected by law.With intelle ctual property protection system is being estab-lished in gradually in our country,t he government has enacted a series of regulations and rules for protectin g the property of Chinese traditional medicine.But due to some specific characteristi cs of Chinese traditional medicine i nto practice by existing regulation of law.So,that why cases of property infringement i n field of Chinese traditional are fr equently happening and also some of them can' t be solved easy.Many new medicine developed and produced by some enterpr ises was often imitated by other companie s,which conduced profit lose of developer and restrain the progress of Chinese traditional medicine. In addition,because the distinctio n between Chinese traditional medic ine and Western medicine are huge,th e intellectual property protection s ystem in developed countries could o ffer perfect protection for Western medicine but not Chinese traditional medicine,that made difficulty for spreading the cu lture of Chinese traditional medicine and exploiting market into west. In text,author is making the analysis about status of protection of intellectual property of Chinese traditional medicine in four aspect,such as protection by patent,administration,a nd trade brand and know how or business secret,and presenting some proposal about protection of intellectual property of Chinese traditional medicine,combining with specialty of Chinese traditional me dicine.