Study on the Registration System of Traditional Chinese Medicine Knowledge

Establishing and perfecting the registration system of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge can protect traditional Chinese medicine knowledge, promote its inheritance, development and innovation, and safeguard national interest. With the active promotion of the formulation of the Regulations on the Protection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Knowledge, the relevant provisions of the registration system of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge are becoming more and more specific. However, the Regulations on the Protection of Traditional Chinese Medicine Knowledge (draft for comment) is controversial in terms of definition, registration acceptance procedures, audit confirmation procedures and so on, which reflects the problems of incomplete registration objects, unreasonable registration methods and imperfect rights relief mechanism. By learning from the foreign experience of traditional knowledge registration system, and combining with the actual situation in China, we can improve the registration system of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge from three aspects: expanding the registration object, balancing the registration method and refining the right relief mechanism.