Chapter 580: Emphasis and Patents
With the advent of KE, with the success of animal experiments, it quickly attracted enough attention from above!
On this day, Ruan Bin was busy in the laboratory, when suddenly his mobile phone rang, and when he took it out, it turned out to be Vice Dean Lin calling!
"Ruan Bin, are you free now? Come to my office, there is an important person to talk to you today!" Vice President Lin said solemnly.
"Who?" Ruan Bin was slightly surprised.
"Someone from above!" Vice President Lin said.
"Oh?" after Ruan Bin listened, he probably had something to talk about.
"I'll go over now!"
Ten minutes later, Ruan Bin came to Vice Dean Lin's office.
I met a man in his fifties, dressed in a suit, who looked dignified.
"Hello, I'm Zheng Yongshun, the director of the patent ju!" Zheng Yongshun smiled and stretched out his hand.
"Mr. Zheng, hello!" Ruan Bin was in awe when he heard that it was this person!
He was one of the first people in China to engage in intellectual property adjudication, and in 2003 he was named one of the 50 most influential intellectual property professionals in the world by Eagle Nation Intellectual Property Management magazine!
After the two sides are polite.
"Dr. Ruan, I have heard about your invention of KE before, and now that animal experiments are so successful, the above attaches great importance to this drug! Regardless of whether the next human experiments are successful or not, we are very optimistic about you, even if it is not successful at that time, just continue to improve!" Zheng Yongshun smiled faintly.
"Thank you!" Ruan Bin nodded.
He knew that he had researched this drug, and although there were no results showing that it would be successfully applied, the above must have paid attention to it, and he didn't expect that the above would attach so much importance to it!
"Well, this KE element, if it is completely successful in the future, is very suitable for human use! I don't know what you think?" Zheng Yongshun asked in an inquiring tone.
"Regardless of whether KE is successful in the future or not, or continue to research, I want to keep it in Huaxia!" Ruan Bin said with a serious face.
"Okay, hahaha! That's a great idea, I appreciate you. Zheng Yongshun said earnestly.
"By the way, have you started to apply for this KE prime patent?
"I started applying in China two months ago!" Ruan Bin said. He knew that if he wanted to hold this KE in his own hands, he had to get the patent down!
"Well, you don't have to worry about the domestic application, I can help you when the time comes, and get it down as soon as possible! But the most important thing about patents these days is to look at the patents that everyone recognizes! That is, to apply for an international patent, the WHO (World Health Organization) certification! As long as you win this international patent, KE can stay in your hands and stay in China! Otherwise, it will be like a tragedy like artemisinin!" Zheng Yongshun said with a straight face.
In the past, the situation in China was that research was emphasized over protection. Due to the vague concept of intellectual property rights of some researchers, the lack of clear awareness of patents and protection, and the existence of certain thresholds in the pharmaceutical-related intellectual property system, which were deliberately created by developed countries, a considerable part of our research results have not been certified and protected in a timely manner, which has brought huge losses to Huaxia and pharmaceutical companies themselves.
Take artemisinin, for example, a patent for artemisinin extraction was filed in 1989. However, a few years later, Geigy (the predecessor of Novartis) purchased the international marketing rights of artemisinin-based combination drugs from the original patent holder of artemisinin. After five years of development, Novartis has become the first pharmaceutical company in the world to launch a fixed-dose artemisinin-based combination or combination drug (ACT).
Because the combined artemisinin antimalarial drug has better efficacy than single artemisinin, two years later, the World Health Organization recommended the use of combined artemisinin as the first antimalarial drug. Unfortunately, none of Huaxia Pharmaceutical companies are GMP (World Good Manufacturing Practices for Hygienic Medicines).
As a result, Novartis became the only qualified supplier at that time and obtained a patent for the derivation of compound artemisinin. This process clearly reflects the lack of awareness of patent protection among Chinese pharmaceutical companies, which has led to the current embarrassing situation of "Nobel Prize belongs to Chinese people, and artemisinin belongs to foreigners".
"I understand!" Ruan Bin nodded.
"However, even if we can successfully obtain internationally certified patents at that time, there is still a way in front of us, and that is the successful transfer of science and technology to clinical application!"
At present, many of the Chinese people still focus on research and light application, and the domestic medical research capabilities and achievements are still quite advanced in the world, but the conversion rate of scientific and technological achievements into clinical applications is obviously insufficient, even less than 10%.
"That is, we should pay attention to the quality and production standards of drugs for industrial mass production at that time?" Ruan Bin frowned.
"Yes, that's it! Although it's too early to say this, if we want to win the huge market in the future, we can only take this road! Otherwise, it's difficult!" Zheng Yongshun said in a deep voice.
"Understood!" Ruan Bin nodded, this thing is not something he can do alone.
Industrial mass production also requires a lot of investment in research and development, and this step will have to be discussed later.
Now he can't keep himself busy!
And there is not so much money either.
At most, when the time comes, buy a production line directly from the system!mmp!But it will cost billions?
More on that later!
"Your secret recipe must be kept secret and not disclosed, otherwise...... This success was in vain. Two of your papers were on the Lancet, and now the whole world is paying attention to you!" Zheng Yongshun said in a deep voice.
"I know that the secret information, the most core information, is only in my mind at the moment!" Ruan Bin smiled faintly.
This, he knows, must be kept secret!
Otherwise, the eggs will hurt when the time comes.
After chatting about business, Zheng Yongshun asked Ruan Bin with a serious face: "Ruan Bin, do you have a good grasp of human experiments?"
I believe this is what everyone wants to ask at the moment!
"To tell you the truth, I can't guarantee it, but try to be the best. Ruan Bin said.
You can't say it's going to work, right?
Let's keep it a secret first!
"Okay. ”
Finally, after chatting for a while, the three of them went to eat again, and finally the two sides exchanged contact information.
"Don't worry, the domestic patent can be done quickly, but the main thing you need to get is the international patent, that is, the certification of the World Health Organization! ”
"I know, thank you!" Ruan Bin said sincerely.
Originally, Ruan Bin did not engage in this KE for the purpose of making money, but to save countless cancer patients.
But, no matter what, this KE Su must stay in Huaxia!