Tasly Won the Battle of Safeguarding Its TCM Patent
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Broughton [2011-05-20]
The Nurishing Blood& Cleaning Brain Granule Patent Infringement Case Went in Tasly s Favor. It was the first successful patent infringement case in Chinese Medicine industry. The victory was also selected as one of the most influential Events of Chinese Medical field.
Comments followed the case, many specialists said that the phenomena of patent infringement happened frequently, but the criterion still need to be standardized. Another problem is that China had been a member of WTO for 5years, but intellectual property right is still a sensitive issue, and the relevant cases appeared very often. On Dec. 18th, 2006, Beijing superior people's court released the final judgment of Tasly s winning over Dongguang Wancheng Pharmaceutical CO.ltd concerning its infringement of Tasly s patent invention of Nurishing Blood& Cleaning Brain Granule.
From the day Tasly appealed to the court, 19-month-long safeguarding its patent invention final got the righteous result. This conveys us a courageous message that Chinese enterprises awareness of intellectual property right is gaining momentum.