中药的专利保护：现状、问题及对策

引　　言中药是中华民族文化之瑰宝 ,是我国劳动人民通过长期实践经验的积累而形成的传统知识的一部分 ,也是中华民族对人类卫生健康事业的杰出贡献。随着社会经济的发展和生活水平的提高 ,人们对生活质量和生命质量的要求越来越高。传统医药以其绿色天然、毒副作用小等特点备受推崇。中药成为医药产业发展的重点领域 ,中医药现代化的研究也成为国家重点科技项目之一。中药现代化研究及产业开发的进程和目标实现 ,离不开中药业的科技创新、国家政策的扶持引导 ,相对完备的法律环境的保障。中药法律保护体系中 ,专利保护无疑是一种通行的、最…     

Forensic medicine in the Indo-Pacific region: history and current practice of forensic medicine

A brief history of forensic medicine in the Indo-Pacific region followed by the extent of medical education imparted to undergraduates and current practice in various countries of the region are examined.     

The Jersey approach to excluding trustee liability: a comparison with the Law Commission's proposals

This article considers how Jersey law regards trustee exemptionclauses, an important topic in a jurisdiction with a substantialand developed trust industry where most trustees are paid professionalswho are regulated by the Island's Financial Services Commission.     

Competition Law and IP Licensing: a refreshing analysis of the modern approach

Technology Transfer and the New EU Competition Rules is a refreshing,invigorating ‘from first principles’ explanationof how IP licensing agreements should be analysed for compliancewith the new EU competition law regime. The modernized competitionlaw regime is only ‘new’ in the sense that it hasbeen in existence for less than three years, but the authorscan be forgiven this slightly liberal use of the word, giventhat their aim throughout the book is very obviously to shakeintellectual property and competition lawyers out of the oldcomfortable, rigid, formulaic approach to IP, and into a worldwhere a much more fluid and arguably sophisticated approachis required.     

A review of a framework for action: a four pillar approach to drug problems in Vancouver

A Framework for Action: A Four Pillar Approach to Drug Problems in Vancouver leaves the author of this review, Jan Skirrow, seriously conflicted. According to Skirrow, the Framework is a useful document and reflects well on those who prepared it, but skips over the hard issues by agreeing that drugs are the problem, and then moving on to repackaging the failed program approaches of the past. This, Skirrow says, is not the fault of those who participated in the planning exercise leading to the Framework. Rather, it results from a lack of courage on the part of society's policymakers.     

Application of personal telemonitoring to current problems in corrections

The first electronic monitoring system in corrections was developed in 1964. It was used as an alternative to the incarceration of parolees and mental patients. More recently, with rapid advances in communications technology and data management, personal telemonitoring systems are being developed at several locations in the United States and other countries. Current case law suggests that at least some types of electronic monitoring may be legally permissible when they are used to verify compliance with other acceptable conditions of probation or parole and have demonstrated therapeutic effectiveness. Three major correctional objectives may be achieved through the use of telemonitoring systems: (1) reduced correctional costs, (2) extended protection of the public, and (3) improved rehabilitation of offenders. Considerations should now be given to the important legal and social issues involved in the large scale use of telemonitoring.     

A practical approach to determining training-solvable problems

Training is a necessity to progressive companies, but how do you decide which problems would benefit from it? The authors' model, based on current literature and consulting experience with a large organization, stresses the importance of using existing data for a more exact and cost-effective diagnosis.     

Drug use in India: Historical traditions and current problems

By all accounts, drug abuse in India — as elsewhere around the world — is reaching near epidemic proportions. Although India has been a world producer of legal drugs for pharmaceutical markets, it also has an ancient tradition of using drugs in daily activities and ceremonial rituals. Only in recent years has this historically drug‐rich country developed a drug abuse problem. Because of its history of tolerance of drug use in culturally sanctioned activities, India offers a rich site for investigating the conditions that foster responsible and irresponsible use of drugs. Global efforts at crop reduction, interdiction, and criminal sanctions continue to be disappointing at best. A more realistic approach may be to identify factors that make drugs particularly alluring to some segments of the population and not to others. This approach emphasized responsible conduct in drug‐rich environments rather than depending on the increasingly unlikely eradication of the supply.     

PTSD及其法医学相关问题

随着国外对PTSD(posttraumatic stress disorder)的深入研究以及中国心理卫生事业与法医学事业的发展,相关领域的学者开始从事这一方面的研究并取得了不少成就。本文结合国内外的一些理论研究与实践成果,对PTSD的概念、诊断与鉴别以及相关法医学问题作一综述和探讨。     

Dominions: Law, Literature, and the Right to Death

The 'curious right' attending modernity and revealed in Blanchot's 'Literature And the Right to Death' could be readily reduced to that sovereign right to take life which ultimately subordinates law. Yet, so the argument runs, with that same curious right law surpasses sovereignty. And it does so by way of its similarity to literature. What will uncover that surpassing by law, and by literature, will be a pervasive concern with death as the horizon of the law.