Chapter: 1507

Wei Lian hurriedly explained, "Miss Chen, you misunderstand. Our boss is not being petty, but cautious. Before our product is officially released, we must strictly guard against it and cannot let any confidential information leak out. Now, Japan and other Asian countries have been constantly imitating and plagiarizing China's traditional Chinese medicine, which has brought tremendous losses to the traditional Chinese medicine industry."

Chen Moudou frowned and asked, "Is your boss paranoid? It's already the 21st century, and patent laws are very strict. As long as you've applied for a patent, you don't need to worry about others copying your formula."

Wei Lian shook his head and said, "Miss Chen still doesn't understand. In the pharmaceutical industry today, truly having strict patent protection and being able to execute it, only chemical synthesis type medicines have this kind of protection."

"Miss Chen asked, 'What's meant by chemical synthesis type medicines?'"

Wei Lian said, "Medicines that are chemically synthesized all have strict and clear chemical molecular formulas. Their chemical structures are also very stable. For example, the cancer treatment drug Gleevine is a Swiss Novartis company product. From its chemical structure, it's basically just 6-fluoro-imatinib. As long as Novartis has applied for a patent on this formula, any other company that produces a product with the same chemical composition will be considered an infringement."

Wei Lian paused and then said, "However, traditional Chinese medicine is not a type of chemically synthesized product. It's a combination of many different plant-based medicines used in specific proportions to achieve therapeutic effects. This kind of formula is difficult to patent and even harder to effectively protect under patent law. Moreover, it's hard to go after someone for infringement."

"Let me illustrate this with an example," Wei Lian said. "Everyone knows about the Dandelion root decoction. Its main ingredients are Dandelion root and cane sugar. How can you apply a patent for this kind of formula? This kind of thing, as long as the formula is leaked out, ordinary people can easily make it at home. The pharmaceutical company cannot take these ordinary citizens to court."

Chen Moudou said, "Even if ordinary people infringe on your rights, you can still take action against a pharmaceutical company for infringement?"

Wei Lian shook his head and said, "Miss Chen, you're thinking too simply. First of all, things that naturally exist in nature are difficult to patent. For example, almost the entire Asian continent uses rice as its staple food. If one day research shows that rice can be used to treat some diseases, then a pharmaceutical company will want to apply for a patent on it. The international patent organization would not even possibly approve it."

"And even if you have a complex formula and manage to get a patent, the probability of someone else breaking it is also very high. For example, by making slight adjustments to the original formula, such as adjusting the dosage ratio or replacing individual ingredients with similar ones, you can perfectly avoid infringing on the patent without affecting the drug's efficacy."

"So, in the end, the patent protection for traditional Chinese medicine is very weak. The best way to maximize your avoidance of being infringed upon is to seize the initiative and let consumers recognize our brand and product. Even if a competitor produces a product that's not much different from ours, we can still capture the market at the consumer level."

"This is like Yunnan Baiyao. There are many similar products on the market with effects similar to Yunnan Baiyao. Their ingredients and formulas are also basically very similar, but because Yunnan Baiyao has been well-known for a long time and has a strong foundation among ordinary people, those counterfeit products will not harm Yunnan Baiyao's roots."

Chen Moudou puckered up her mouth: "You're saying so many things. I just want to ask you one question. Is this formula also taken from Chinese ancient formulas? Isn't that equivalent to saying you're plagiarizing the ancestors' achievements?"

"So, I'm really not clear about this." Wei Liang shook his head.

"You're not clear?" Chen Moudou was even more puzzled and asked him again: "Your own products' formulas, where do they come from? You yourself are not clear?"

Wei Liang said sincerely: "The formula is given by our boss."

"Our boss?" Chen Moudou exclaimed in surprise: "Is our boss a doctor?"

Wei Liang's face was filled with infinite reverence and sighed: "Our boss is truly the dragon of humanity, the sage of this era!"

"Cut!" Chen Moudou said disdainfully: "Don't talk nonsense about this. Nowadays, there are still people who dare to call themselves by such titles?"

Wei Liang saw that Chen Moudou was looking down on his boss and immediately spoke up with a sense of justice: "Miss Chen, you can look down on me, but absolutely cannot look down on my boss. If you interact with my boss for long enough, you'll know everything I say is not empty talk."

Chen Moudou raised her eyebrows and was about to say something else when her colleague Gu Qiu Yi grabbed her arm and warned: "Moudou, don't be so impolite when you're out. I believe what Wei General says. If someone can research and develop a magical stomach medicine like Nine Mysteries Stomach Powder, it's not wrong at all to call him the sage of this era."

Chen Moudou puffed out her tongue: "Okay, since you've said that, I won't bother him anymore. I was originally going to tease him a bit anyway."

Wei Liang was taken aback, not expecting this girl to be deliberately teasing him.

He, after all, is an old gentleman, and discovering himself being played by a woman, his heart had some pent-up emotions. However, he couldn't help but think that this woman is Gu Qiu Yi's agent, so he could only deeply suppress his emotions in his heart.

Just then, the workshop director rushed over to him and said, "Wei Manager, Ye Dachen has arrived!" JrNovels.com