India is rich of
traditional medicine knowledge. Due to inadequate
protection on its
traditional medicine knowledge, some of them have been illegally possessed or used by other countries, resulting in huge economic and cultural losses. In order to prevent such issues from happening, the Indian
government has formulated a series of
policies to protect and rationally develop
traditional medicine knowledge, taken up many effective
measures, such as collecting and archiving traditional medical
knowledge, formulating
laws and
policies, establishing an administrative
supervision system for
traditional medicine knowledge, establish a Traditional
Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), as well as build a traditional medical
knowledge registration and
invention patent system. It also establishes an
investment foundation, and conducts
intellectual property culture building. At present,
India has formed a relatively complete
protection system for
traditional medicine knowledge, which has achieved good results and gained recognition. To summarize the experience of
traditional medicine knowledge protection in
India can provide reference for
China.