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| Title: | Exuberance or Bubble? Study of Nano-Based Herbal Medicine Patents in the PR China |
| Authors: | Dong, Tse-Ping
Sung, Chun-Hsien |
| Keywords: | Chinese herbal medicine (CHM)
Nano-based patenting
Nanotechnology
Biopharmaceutical industry
SIPO |
| Issue Date: | May-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | The growing economic and therapeutic
importance of Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) has prompted the governments of
East Asian countries to develop it into an industry. The current research on
the application of nanotechnology in CHM is deemed a new field of study. This
article focuses on the issue of overly broad patent applications and
assignments in the PR China by examining a case in which a patentee
successfully registered more than 900 nano-based CHM patents in China’s State
Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), all of which were based on the same
preparation process. This article further shows that the proliferation of
nano-based CHM patents in China is due to the illusion of biomedical
technological progress and that the current irrational exuberance for patents
not only is a bubble that will burst, but also presents barriers to innovation
and invention in the emerging biopharmaceutical ind ustry and the nano-based
CHM market. |
| Page(s): | 225-234 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1076 (Online); 0971-7544 (Print) |
| Source: | JIPR Vol.16(3) [May 2011]
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