The Current Situation and Reflections on the Protection of Trade Secrets in Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescriptions

Songran Yang

2025

Abstract

Traditional knowledge of Chinese medicine is the outcome of the Chinese nation’s struggle against diseases and survival in nature over several thousand years. It embodies the wisdom of countless ancient medicine practitioners. This thesis will conduct an overview of traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions as the object, analyzing their uniqueness and the current status of legal protection, as well as anylzing the current protection status of existing patent system for traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions, analyzing the protection methods, protection scope and identifying the shortcomings. This study reveals that the protection of trade secret is highly applicable to the protection of traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions. Based on the practice of protection traditional medicine in foreign counties, it can be concluded that the protection of trade secrets for traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions can be achieved through the issuance of targeted laws and regulations as well as the establishment of databases.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Yang S. (2025). The Current Situation and Reflections on the Protection of Trade Secrets in Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescriptions. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Politics, Law, and Social Science - Volume 1: ICPLSS; ISBN 978-989-758-785-6, SciTePress, pages 251-256. DOI: 10.5220/0014372800004859

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icplss25,
author={Songran Yang},
title={The Current Situation and Reflections on the Protection of Trade Secrets in Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescriptions},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Politics, Law, and Social Science - Volume 1: ICPLSS},
year={2025},
pages={251-256},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0014372800004859},
isbn={978-989-758-785-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Politics, Law, and Social Science - Volume 1: ICPLSS
TI - The Current Situation and Reflections on the Protection of Trade Secrets in Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescriptions
SN - 978-989-758-785-6
AU - Yang S.
PY - 2025
SP - 251
EP - 256
DO - 10.5220/0014372800004859
PB - SciTePress