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<article xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.1/xsd/JATS-journalpublishing1-mathml3.xsd" dtd-version="1.1" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">CNR</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Clinical Neuroscience Research</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn>3083-4899</issn><eissn>2981-8133</eissn><publisher><publisher-name>Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty. Ltd.</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.26689/cnr.v4i2.15369</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title>Intellectual Property and Copyright Protection in Grade-A Tertiary Hospitals: Current Status and Challenges</title><url>https://artdesignp.com/journal/CNR/4/2/10.26689/cnr.v4i2.15369</url><author>LiMin,JiangJun,SunYingui,FengShuo</author><pub-date pub-type="publication-year"><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>4</volume><issue>2</issue><history><date date-type="pub"><published-time>2026-06-30</published-time></date></history><abstract>In recent years, amidst an environment where medical promotion systems have heightened requirements for research quality, large domestic hospitals, particularly Grade-A Tertiary hospitals, have faced not only research pressures but also severe challenges regarding intellectual property and copyright protection. Effective intellectual property protection is crucial for the scientific research innovation and achievement transformation of hospitals and medical practitioners, while also influencing medical quality and industry development levels. Despite the formulation of numerous intellectual property-related laws and regulations by the state by 2024, there remains significant confusion in clinical practice regarding how to effectively apply intellectual property protection policies. Furthermore, with the diversification of medical activities, balancing patient privacy rights with intellectual property issues has become an urgent problem to solve. To delve into the importance of intellectual property protection, this article combines examples from relevant hospitals to discuss the vital role of intellectual property in medical innovation, research achievement transformation, and clinical medicine development, proposing corresponding improvement strategies. 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