title: [On the necessity of intellectual property rights involving standardization of acupuncture and moxibustion therapies].
abstract: In the process of working out and implementing standardization of acupuncture-moxibustion (acu-moxi) therapy, the issue of intellectual property rights has been frequently involved. Whether is the standardization inevitably involved in intellectual property rights? A reasonable answer to this question is definitely of important realistic guiding value and significance for acu-moxi standardization work. For this reason, authors of the present paper sum up historical development of correlation between acu-moxi standardization and intellectual property rights, and fully analyze the related causes under the conditions of knowledge economy from 1) increasing protection of acu-moxi intellectual property rights, 2) intrinsic requirements for raising the standardization level of acu-moxi, 3) profits drive of the intellectual property rights owners, and 4) increasing impetuous international economic trade competition.
authors.forename: Guo-Feng
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Xiao-Dong
authors.initials: XD
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Yan-Jing
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jun-Wen
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D026881:Acupuncture / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D018973:Intellectual Property; D009071:Moxibustion / Q000592:standards*