Present Situation Investigation And Research Countermeasures On Intellectual Property Protection Of Chinese Medicines

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is one of our extraordinary national treasures, which is an essential ingredient of Chinese traditional culture. Compared with chemical medicine and biological technique medicine, TCM has the obvious advantages of less risk, shorter period and lower cost.As a superior traditional industry, TCM industry has made great contributions to the national economy. With the internationalization development of TCM industry, how to protect its intellectual property rights becomes more and more important. Owing to a weak protection system, our country is loosing its advantage in traditional medicine, and even is facing with a crisis of existence and development.Firstly, the thesis compares and analyzes the present situations of intellectual property protection of TCM both in the domestic and foreign, including the patent data and patent protection system,the trademark data and trademark protection system,the copyright data and copyright protection system,the business secret data and business secret protection system,the administration protection system performed to analyse.In the process of analysis, it gathers lots of data and applies several methods, especially the two professional methods of Patent Number Calculation and k-means Dynamic Samples Clustering Analysis.Secondly, on the basis of present situation investigation, finds out the problems of intellectual property protection of our TCM in practice. Thirdly, it works out countermeasures on intellectual property protection of our TCM. Finally, in the view of the enterprises, the governments and the international organizations, it puts forward the concrete measures to carry out the countermeasures, so as to help the relevant institutions and enterprises.