Statistics on Trademark Application Cases Filed by Chinese in Taiwan and Taiwanese in China from 1999-2008 (more…)

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Revised Patent Fees in Taiwan will officially take effect January 2010

The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) published a notice on December 8, 2009 that starting from January 1, 2010, a new rule introducing a set of revised patent fees will (more…)

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In order to shorten the waiting time for an invention patent application, Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) started a one-year trial period of “Accelerated Examination Program (AEP)” on January 1, 2009. Until now there are about 475 applications filed for AEP, (more…)

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Although the “Guidelines on Inspection of Patent Official Files” had been amended twice in 2000 and 2004 respectively since its first promulgation in 1994, yet inspection on an official file for opposition and invalidation cases was still restricted to the parties concerned and (more…)

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HISTORY OF CHANGE OF PATENT TERM IN TAIWAN (more…)

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aiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) began “Accelerated Examination Program (AEP)” on January 1, 2009. The program is similar to Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) between foreign patent offices, and aims to speed up the examination of invention patent (more…)

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Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) promulgated on June 3, 2009 “Examination Guidelines for Medicinal Inventions” under “Section 2 of Substantive Examination on Invention Patent” and the same guidelines took effect from the same date. (more…)

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Quick Review of HONG KONG Trademark System (more…)

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