Overview of the status quo of traditional Indian medicine intellectual property rights protection
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1673-4246.2020.01.002
- VernacularTitle: 印度传统医药知识保护现状及借鉴意义
- Author:
Shiheng WANG
1
;
Jianfeng LIU
2
;
Peijie QIN
2
;
Zhen DONG
3
;
Yingying DANG
4
Author Information
1. Master of 2017, Institute for the History of Chinese Medicine and Medical Literature, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China
2. Office of Traditional Chinese Medicine Traditional Knowledge Protection Research Center of Institute for the History of Chinese Medicine and Medical Literature, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China
3. Master of 2016, Institute for the History of Chinese Medicine and Medical Literature, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China
4. Master of 2018, Institute for the History of Chinese Medicine and Medical Literature, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Intellectual property;
Medicine, traditional;
India;
Protection;
Overview;
Reference
- From:
International Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2020;42(1):5-9
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
India is rich of traditional medicine knowledge. Due to inadequate protection on its traditional medicine knowledge, some of them have been illegally possessed or used by other countries, resulting in huge economic and cultural losses. In order to prevent such issues from happening, the Indian government has formulated a series of policies to protect and rationally develop traditional medicine knowledge, taken up many effective measures, such as collecting and archiving traditional medical knowledge, formulating laws and policies, establishing an administrative supervision system for traditional medicine knowledge, establish a Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), as well as build a traditional medical knowledge registration and invention patent system. It also establishes an investment foundation, and conducts intellectual property culture building. At present, India has formed a relatively complete protection system for traditional medicine knowledge, which has achieved good results and gained recognition. To summarize the experience of traditional medicine knowledge protection in India can provide reference for China.
