中医药技术秘密保护的价值审视和风险规制

现代医药的知识产权保护是建立在以西方科技为发展基点、西医药为主要保护对象、专利保护为核心手段基础之上的产权保护制度.在应对中医药的知识产权保护时,一味遵循西药的专利保护制度无法适应中医药理论体系,依靠专利制度进行中医药知识产权保护往往捉襟见肘.相比之下,长期处于专利制度云翳背后的技术秘密保护手段,能够有效弥补传统以专利为核心的知识产权保护制度不足,成为了中医药产权保护的新常态.同时,技术秘密保护也存在着固有的缺陷,并与涉及社会公共利益的信息公开制度存在冲突.本文致力于主动审视技术秘密保护手段在中医药产权保护领域的独特价值,积极找寻破解中医药技术秘密保护困境的方法,从法律视角提供构建和完善中医药技术秘密保护的思路.

Value Examination and Risk Regulation of the Technical Secrets Protection of Traditional Chinese Medicine

The Intellectual Property(IP)rights system protecting modern medicine is based on western science and technology,with western medicine as the main object of protection,and patent protection as the core means.This patent protection system does not fit the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM),so when dealing with the protection of TCM IP rights,problems arise if TCM rights holders rely on that patent system.In contrast,the protection of technical secrets,which has been behind the patent system for a long time,can effec-tively make up for the insufficiency of the traditional IP protection system with patents as the core.Such protec-tion has become the new normal in the protection of TCM property rights.However,the protection of technical se-crets also has inherent shortcomings and conflicts with the information disclosure system involving the public in-terest of the society,so it faces difficulties in realizing the protection of TCM technical secrets.This article re-views the unique value of the protection of technical secrets in the field of TCM IP rights protection,seeking solu-tions for the dilemma of TCM technical secret protection,and providing ideas for constructing and perfecting TCM technical secret protection from a legal perspective.