Patent data from 2024 published by the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) are compiled into the following tables.
2024 New Patent Filing Cases
| Type | Invention | Utility Model | Design | Total number of Applications |
|---|
| Domestic Applicant | 19,586 (↓0.2%) | 13,341 (↑0.2%) | 3,338 (↓2.9%) | 36265 (↓0.3) |
| Foreign Applicant | 31,237 (↑0.05%) | 1,218 (↑5.3%) | 4,022 (↑4.5) | 36,477 (↑0.7) |
| Subtotal | 50,823 (↓0.1%) | 14,559 (↑0.6%) | 7,360 (↑1.0%) | Grand Total 72,742 (↑0.2%) |
2024 Patent-related Cases
| Re-examination | 6,696 (↑0.5%) |
| Invalidation | 393 (↑9.2%) |
| Assignment | 4,525 (↑5.6%) |
| Licensing | 74 (↑12.1%) |
| Appeal | 207 (↓4.2%) |
| Administrative Suit | 68 (↓8.1%) |
2024 Invention Patent Cases
| Applications requesting substantive examination | 45,847 cases |
| Cases disposed at primary examination stage | 45,445 cases |
| Percentage of allowed cases in primary examination stage | 78.10% |
| Average time for issuing first office action in primary examination stage | 8.4 months |
| Average disposal time in primary examination stage | 14.2 months |
| Cases disposed in re-examination stage | 7,139 cases |
| Average time for issuing first office action in re-examination stage | 8.6 months |
| Average disposal time in re-examination stage | 11.7 months |
| (Request of substantive examination must be filed by invention patent applications at the time of filing or within three years after filing.) |
2024 Utility Model Patent Cases
| Utility model cases disposed | 15,943 cases |
| Average disposal time | 2.4 months |
| Applications requesting Utility Model Technical Evaluation Report | 705 cases |
| Average completion time for Utility Model Technical Evaluation Report | 5.7 months |
| (Utility model application is conducted by formality examination only.) |
2024 Design Patent Cases
| Applications allowed in primary examination stage | 6,609 cases |
| Percentage of allowance in primary examination stage | 88.10% |
| Average time for issuing first office action in primary examination stage | 5.6 months |
| Average disposal time in primary examination stage | 6.6 months |
| (Design application is conducted by automatic examination ex officio.) |
2024 AEP and PPH Cases for Invention Patent Applications
| - | AEP | PPH |
|---|
| Number of cases | 391 (226 for Base 1; 12 for Base 2; 106 for Base 3; 47 for Base 4) | 944 (453 for Japan-Taiwan PPH; and 466 for USA-Taiwan PPH) |
| Average time until first office action | 48.8 days for Base 1; 40.7 days for Base 2; 74.8 days for Base 3; 60.5 days for Base 4 | 41.3 days for Japan-Taiwan PPH; 42.9 days for USA-Taiwan PPH |
| Average disposal time | 147.6 days for Base 1; 192.1 days for Base 2; 213.2 days for Base 3; 202.2 days for Base 4 | 118.7 for Japan-Taiwan PPH; 143.2 days for USA-Taiwan PPH |
Remarks:
＊AEP refers to Accelerated Examination Program. The Applicant can file AEP request according to one of the following bases:
Base 1 – an invention application that has a corresponding foreign patent application allowed after the substantive examination conducted by a foreign patent office
Base 2 – an invention application that has a corresponding foreign application pending before USPTO, JPO or EPO, but official action and search report have been issued
Base 3 – an invention application required for commercial practice
Base 4 – an invention application 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. |
2024 Positive Examination of Invention Patent Applications for Start-up Industries
| Applications received for the positive examination | 66 cases (↑88.6%) |
| Average processing time | 70.2 days |
2024 Accelerated Re-Examination of Invention Patent Applications (abbreviated as AEPRe and enforced as from September 1, 2024)
| Applications received AEPRe | 14 cases |
| Applications finished for AEPRe | 10 cases |
| Average processing time | 15 days |
Remarks:
For an invention patent application rejected in the primary examination phase, merely due to part of the claims not being patentable, if the Applicant files a request for re-examination by deleting the rejected claims (or filing divisional application) or by rewriting the non-rejected dependent claims into independent claims, then TIPO may issue a first office action or decision on the re-examination application within six months. |
2024 Patent Invalidation Cases
| Examination results | Invention | Utility Model | Design | Total |
|---|
| Sustained | 48 | 86 | 14 | 148 |
| Partially sustained | 12 | 32 | - | 44 |
| Rejected | 88 | 88 | 8 | 184 |
2024 Patent Appeal Cases
| Sustained | Partially Sustained | Rejected | Other | Success Rate |
|---|
| 6 | 0 | 153 | 5 | 3.70% |
| (Based on statistics provided by the Appeal Review Committee) |
2024 Patent Administrative Suits
| Withdrawn | Plaintiff Won | Plaintiff Lost | Partially Sustained | Dismissal Ruling | Settlement | Other | Success Rate |
|---|
| 18 | 10 | 47 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 17.10% |
| (Based on statistics provided by the Intellectual Property and Commercial Court, IPCC) |
