Patent data from 2025 published by the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) are compiled into the following tables.
2025 New Patent Filing Cases
| Patent Type | Invention | Utility Model | Design | Total number of applications |
|---|
| Domestic Applicant | 19,511 (↓0.4%) | 12,574 (↓5.7%) | 3,192 (↓4.4%) | 35,277 (↓2.7%) |
| Foreign Applicant | 31,719 (↑1.5%) | 1,426 (↑17.1%) | 3,543 (↓11.9%) | 36,688 (↑0.6%) |
| Subtotal | 51,230 (↑0.8%) | 14,000 (↓3.8%) | 6,735 (↓8.5%) | Grand Total 71,965 (↓1.1%) |
2025 Patent-related Cases
| Re-examination | 6,760 (↑0.9%) |
| Invalidation | 344 (↓12.5%) |
| Assignment | 5,683 (↑25.6%) |
| Licensing | 66 (↓10.8%) |
| Appeal | 166 (↓19.8%) |
| Administrative Suit | 65 (↓4.4%) |
2025 Invention Patent Cases
| Applications requesting substantive examination | 46,720 cases (↑1.9%) |
| Cases disposed in primary stage | 46,275 cases (↑1.8%) |
| Allowed Cases in primary stage / percentage | 36,364 cases / 78.6% |
| Average time to first office action in primary examination stage | 8.0 months |
| Average disposal time in primary examination stage | 13.8 months |
| Cases disposed in re-examination stage | 7,299 cases |
| Average time to first office action in re-examination stage | 7.4 months |
| Average disposal time in re-examination stage | 10.3 months |
| (Request of substantive examination must be filed by invention patent applications at the time of filing or within three years after filing.) |
2025 Utility Model Patent Cases
| Utility model cases disposed | 13,592 cases |
| Average disposal time | 2.0 months |
| Applications requesting Utility Model Technical Evaluation Report | 576 cases |
| Average completion time for Utility Model Technical Evaluation Report | 5.0 months |
| (Utility model application is conducted by formality examination only.) |
2025 Design Patent Cases
| Allowed cases in primary examination stage | 6,572 cases |
| Percentage of allowance in primary examination stage | 87.50% |
| Average time to first office action in primary examination stage | 4.7 months |
| Average disposal time in primary examination stage | 5.7 months |
| (Design application is conducted by substantive examination ex officio.) |
2025 AEP and PPH Cases for Invention Patent Applications
| AEP | PPH |
|---|
| Number of cases | 389 (177 for Base 1; 9 for Base 2; 123 for Base 3; 80 cases for Base 4) | 738 (366 for TIPO-JPO PPH; 348 for TIPO-USPTO PPH; 24 for TIPO-MOIP PPH) |
| Average time to first office action | 43.4 days for Base 1; 72.1 days for Base 2; 61.9 days for Base 3; 59.3 days for Base 4 | 35.3 days for TIPO-JPO PPH; 40.6 days for TIPO-USPTO PPH |
| Average disposal time | 149.7 days for Base 1; 207.9 days for Base 2; 209.9 days for Base 3; 172.9 days for Base 4 | 113.8 days for TIPO-JPO PPH; 134.6 days for TIPO-USPTO 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, CIPO, INPI, and ILPO, respectively. |
2025 Positive Examination of Invention Patent Applications for Start-up Industries
| Applications filed for positive examination | 75 cases (↑13.6%) |
| Average processing time | 65.8 days |
2025 Accelerated Re-Examination of Invention Patent Applications (abbreviated as AEPRe and enforced as from September 1, 2025)
| Applications filed for AEPRe | 58 cases |
| Applications finished AEPRe | 54 cases |
| Average processing time | 22 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. |
2025 Deferred Substantive Examination Patent Cases (cumulative applications received since implementation)
| Received cases | Remarks |
|---|
| Invention application | 1,921 | From April 1, 2015 (date of implementation) until the end of 2025 |
| Design application | 1,146 | From July 1, 2018 (date of implementation) until the end of 2025 |
2025 Patent Invalidation Cases
| Examination results | Invention | Utility Model | Design | Total |
|---|
| Sustained | 41 | 102 | 4 | 147 |
| Partially sustained | 24 | 44 | - | 68 |
| Rejected | 80 | 73 | 8 | 161 |
2025 Patent Appeal Cases
| Sustained | Partially Sustained | Rejected | Other Disposals
(self-withdrawn, etc.) | Success Rate |
|---|
| 9 | 0 | 186 | 0 | 4.60% |
| (Based on statistics provided by the Appeal Review Committee) |
2025 Patent Administrative Suits
| Withdrawn | Plaintiff Won | Plaintiff Lost | Partially Sustained | Dismissal Ruling | Settlement | Other | Success Rate |
|---|
| 2 | 8 | 51 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20.60% |
| (Based on statistics provided by the Intellectual Property and Commercial Court, IPCC) |
