Patents have long been considered as the most important way to protect pharmaceutical innovations, and the drug patent system has exerted a profound impact on the development of the pharmaceutical industry. In the context that domestic effective drug regulations and patent laws and regulations have covered the provisions on drug patent linkage system, this paper, by taking the first case of domestic drug patent linkage litigation as an instance, analyzes the trial effect of the newly launched drug patent linkage system in China, explores its impact on the generic drug industry, and tries to give suggestions to generic drug enterprises on the choice of patent application types and the authenticity of application materials. The research-based pharmaceutical enterprises need to seize the opportunity to safeguard their rights and protect themselves against patent infringement by choosing an appropriate method to resolve patent disputes. Moreover, given the constraints of China's binary separation of procedures of patent infringement and patent invalidation on the early solution of pharmaceutical patent disputes and the problems awaiting to be solved in different types of patent applications, this paper also puts forward related suggestions on patent protection, including the necessity of timely review and analysis of the implementation of the patent linkage system, enhancement of the legal status of administrative adjudication to enable some authorities of administrative confirmation, and the necessity for clearer definition of types of patent applications and further standardization of patent infringement cases under different circumstances.
| 科 Family | 属数 Number of genus | 种数 Number of species | 占总种数比例 Percentage of total species (%) | 属 Genus | 种数 Number of species | 占总种数比例 Percentage of total species (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 鹅膏菌科Amanitaceae | 2 | 11 | 5.26 | 鹅膏菌属 Amanita | 10 | 4.78 |
| 小菇科 Mycenaceae | 2 | 12 | 5.74 | 丝盖伞属 Inocybe | 5 | 2.39 |
| 多孔菌科 Polyporaceae | 8 | 14 | 6.70 | 蜡蘑属 Laccaria | 5 | 2.39 |
| 红菇科 Russulaceae | 3 | 23 | 11.00 | 小皮伞属 Marasmius | 6 | 2.87 |
| 小菇属 Mycena | 11 | 5.26 | ||||
| 光柄菇属 Pluteus | 5 | 2.39 | ||||
| 红菇属 Russula | 17 | 8.13 | ||||
| 栓菌属 Trametes | 5 | 2.39 |