About Chinese medicine preparation, it must go through strict procedures, a long time and a lot of capital investment. First of all, it has to go through animal experiments (about 300,000 yuan), and then it has to entrust scientific research institutions to make documents (654.38 million yuan) and report them to the Provincial Food and Drug Administration. After the examination and approval in the province, we will go to the National Bureau, which will then examine and approve the clinical documents. The clinical stage is about half a year (654.38 million yuan), and then we will approve the drug number (quasi-brand name), and we can produce it when there are production conditions. There must also be a registered trademark. Finally listed for sale.
In short, it is very complicated and difficult. I have a friend's prescription (with amazing curative effect) developed 10 for more than 0 years, and now the National Bureau is stuffy, waiting for clinical approval.
At present, there are two ways to accurately grasp "how to obtain foreign protection for domestic patents": 1. Before China joined the PCT, it could only file a patent application with foreign countries according to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. According to the provisions of Article 4 of the Paris Convention, anyone who formally files an application for patent, utility model registration, design registration or trademark registration in one country of the Union, or his successor in rights, may enjoy the priority within 65,438+02 months (application for invention patent and utility model) or 6 months (application for design) from the date of filing the first application in other countries. Simply put, give you a priority period of 6 ~ 12 months! But during this priority period, you still need to apply abroad, not the so-called "automatic patent protection in other countries"! ! Because one of the characteristics of patents is "regionality". 2. After China joins the PCT, the applicant can also use the PCT to file an international application. PCT is a good choice when the applicant wants to get protection from more than five countries (generally more than five countries) for an invention. Because only one international application needs to be submitted to the Chinese Patent Office through PCT, the trouble of submitting national applications to each country is avoided.