The following tables are made based on 2023 official data published by Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO).
2023 Patent New Filing Cases
| Type | Invention | Utility Model | Design | Total |
|---|
| Domestic Applicant | 19,634 (↑1.2%) | 13,309 (↓2.6%) | 3,437 (↑0.8%) | 36380 (↑0.3) |
| Foreign Applicant | 31,220 (↑1.2%) | 1,157 (↑16.5%) | 3,850 (↑2.8) | 36,227 (↑1.8) |
| Subtotal | 50,854 (↑+1.2%) | 14,466 (↓1.4%) | 7,287 (↑1.9%) | Total 72,607 (↑0.8%) |
2023 Patent-related Cases
| Re-examination | 6,664 (↑19%) |
|---|
| Invalidation | 360 (↓19.7%) |
| Assignment | 4,287 (↓36.5%) |
| Licensing | 66 (↓86.4%) |
| Appeal | 216 (↑8.3%) |
| Administrative Suit | 74 (↓12.2%) |
2023 Invention Patent Cases
| Applications requesting substantive examination | 44,406 |
| Allowed cases at primary examination | 43,863 |
| Rate of allowance at primary examination | 77.10% |
| Average time until first office action at primary examination | 8.9 months |
| Average disposal time at primary examination | 14.4 months |
| Applications requesting re-examination | 7,195 |
| Average time until first office action at re-examination | 10.1 months |
| Average disposal time at re-examination | 13.1 months |
| (Request of substantive examination must be filed by invention patent applications at the time of filing or within three years after filing.) |
2023 Utility Model Patent Cases
| Utility model cases after disposal | 14,317 |
| Average examination duration | 2.8 months |
| Applications requesting Technical Evaluation Report | 787 |
| Average time to complete Technical Evaluation Report | 6.1 months |
| (Formality examination is conducted for utility model applications only.) |
2023 Design Patent Cases
| Allowed cases at primary examination | 6,268 |
| Rate of allowance at primary examination | 87.50% |
| Average time until first office action at primary examination | 5.5 months |
| Average disposal time at primary examination | 6.6 months |
| (Automatic examination is conducted for design patent cases.) |
2023 AEP and PPH Cases (For Invention Patent Applications Only)
| AEP | PPH |
|---|
| Number of cases | 415 | Total 879, including 430 PPH cases from China, Taiwan, Japan, and 402 cases from Taiwan and USA |
| Average time until first office action | Base 1: 48.6 days; Base 2: 60.3 days; Base 3: 90.4 days, and Base 4: 64.8 days | Japan and Taiwan PPH: 45.6 days; Taiwan and USA PPH: 46.4 days |
| Average disposal time | Base 1: 140.5 days; Base 2: 257.1 days; Base 3: 235.1 days; Base 4: 219.4 days | Japan and Taiwan PPH: 127; Taiwan and USA PPH: 146.3 days |
Remarks:
＊ AEP refers to Accelerated Examination Program. The Applicant can file AEP request according to one of the following bases:
Base 1 – for invention that has a corresponding foreign patent application allowed after the substantive examination by a foreign patent office
Base 2 – for invention that has a corresponding foreign application pending before USPTO, JPO or EPO, but official action and search report have been issued
Base 3 – for invention required for commercial practice
Base 4 – for invention related to green technologies
＊ PPH refers to Patent Prosecution Highway program. Currently there are PPH bilateral agreement between TIPO and USPTO, JPO, KIPO, SPTO, PPO and CIPO, respectively. |
2023 Accelerated Examination Of Design Patent Applications
| Acceptance of applications | 35 (↑150%) |
|---|
| Average processing period | 70.2 days |
2023 Patent Invalidation Cases
| Applications accepted (the accelerated examination mechanism for self-design patents was launched on September 1, 2023 and ended on December 31, 2023) | 3 (2 cases for start-ups, 1 case received the German Red Dot Design Award) |
2023 Patent Appeal Cases
| Examination Results | Invention | Utility Model | Design | Total |
|---|
| Sustained | 41 | 87 | 9 | 137 |
| Partially Sustained | 21 | 36 | - | 57 |
| Rejected | 101 | 99 | 7 | 207 |
2023 Patent Administrative Suits
| Sustained | Partially Sustained | Rejected | Other (withdrawn) | Success Rate |
|---|
| 3 | 1 | 232 | 0 | 1.20% |
| (Based on statistics provided by the Petition Review Committee) |
