Traditional Chinese Medicine Protection Of Intellectual Property

The intellectual protection in the pharmaceutical industry plays a very important role. Under the Explosion of knowledge in today's society, many traditional resources need to be protected by the intellectual property rights, especially in the Chinese traditional medicine field. So, it has a profound impact no matter for China or for the whole word. With relatively high technical content, Chinese medicine has pure natural and little medication side effects, and such a distinctive feature of Chinese tradition makes its resources to occupy an important position, so the demand for traditional Chinese medicine is also expanding. Some foreign medicine enterprises are popular every year to increase the development of Chinese medicine. Through acquisition or mergers in our country, some large pharmaceutical companies abroad mean to obtain valuable resources in medicine, and then share the use of intellectual property rights achieved by their theoretical knowledge of Chinese medicine in China and related technologies, making the traditional Chinese medicine resources of great loss. Therefore, the research and the use of intellectual property rights of Chinese medicine have to be enforce to maintain the domestic and foreign markets, and to participate actively in international competition, those become a pressing development priorities. Major foreign pharmaceutical companies on research and development of Chinese medicine in our country come back, which is not only a threat but also an unprecedented challenges for traditional Chinese medicine industry in China. Our national treasure from generation to generation is facing strong external shocks, so increasing intellectual property rights of traditional Chinese medicine research efforts and effective using of intellectual property rights of Chinese medicine to maintain and consolidate the resources of Chinese medicine in China with independent intellectual property rights, enhancing the competitive strength of the traditional Chinese medicine are our current important tasks need to be addressed urgently.Four chapters on Chinese medicine in China for the protection of intellectual property rights would be discussed in this paper. In chapter one, we'll introduce the topics of this paper, such as the research background, research significance, research priorities and the basic ideas; In chapter two, the traditional Chinese medicine for the general issue of protection of intellectual property rights would be introduced. Taking the concept of Chinese medicine as a starting point, we recall the history of its development, analyze the actual situation and then, discuss in detail on the protection of its intellectual property rights of Chinese medicine to the value and meaning; The author would discuss the current intellectual property protection in Chinese medicine summarized the status quo, and point out the protection of intellectual property rights of Chinese medicine problems in chapter three. Patent protection, trademark protection, copyright protection, trade secrets protection, varieties of Chinese medicine for the protection are the five major aspects of intellectual property protection in Chinese medicine which conduct in-depth analysis of the status quo, And finally, the suggestions about how to improve the corresponding intellectual property protection in Chinese medicine system would be made out in chapter four.