專利是中藥保護的有力武器，也是提升企業(yè)核心競爭力、開拓國際市場的最有效、最直接的途徑。從一名中藥專利申請審查員的角度出發(fā)，探尋目前在中藥專利保護中存在的一些問題，并針對具體問題提出解決方法及相關建議。

Patent is not only a powerful protection of Chinese materia medica (CMM) but also the most direct way of promoting enterprise’s core competitive ability and exploring international market effectively. On the viewpoint of a CMM patent inspector, some problems in CMM patent protection are to be explained, and the solution methods and related suggestions be put forward in this paper.