专利是一种兼有学术价值和商业价值的科技文献，中药专利由我国专利制度的建立而产生，伴随中药现代化事业快速发展，到今天已经积累成为一种数量可观、内容丰富的重要科技文献资源。有效挖掘中药专利中的有用资源，对政府管理部门、科研机构和药企都具有重要的意义。然而，由于中药领域科研人员的专利意识和专利专业知识都比较欠缺，导致对中药专利信息资源的利用力度远远不够。本文简要回顾了中药专利文献资源从无到有的发展历程，对发展中的问题进行了深入探讨，尝试性的提出有效利用专利 资源的指导思想和具体措施，并对中药专利资源的发展前景做了分析。

Patent is a type of technological literature with both academic and commercial value. Patents of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) occurred by the establishment of Chinese medicine patent system, and got a rapid development by the TCM modernization. To date, TCM patents had been accumulated into a large and content-rich technology resource. Efficient utilization of TCM patents is of significant importance to government departments, research institutions and pharmaceutical companies. However, due to the absence of patent awareness and knowledge, the TCM researchers have no idea on the use of TCM patent information resources. In this article, a brief review was presented on the development process of TCM patent. Besides, several issues of development were discussed in depth. We attempted to outline the guidelines and come out with a series of specific measures on exploring patent resources.The prospects of TCM patent resources were also analyzed.

中国医学科学院北京协和医学院协和青年科研基金项目（3332013079）：咖啡酸衍生物的植物学分布与构效关系，负责人：刘海波。