Written Chinese characters are used in Chinese-speaking areas such as China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia, as well as Japan. However, due to a variety of factors over time, people in China, Singapore and Malaysia (Chinese is not an official language in (more…)

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Taiwan trademark dispute cases generally include opposition, invalidation, revocation, appeal and administrative suit. The following statistics are mainly based on the 2016 annual report from Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) for trademark dispute cases with (more…)

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Taiwan patent dispute cases generally include invalidation, appeal and administrative suit (patent opposition system was abolished in 2003). The following statistics are mainly based on the 2016 annual report from Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) for patent (more…)

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During the recent years, Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) implemented various measures to simplify the filing procedures for patent and trademark applications, especially to shorten the pendency of examination time for patent applications via Accelerated (more…)

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During the past two decades, Taiwan Trademark Act was revised in 2003 to provide protection on three-dimensional, single color and sound trademarks, and further revised in 2012 to expand the scope of protection for more types of non-traditional trademarks. (more…)

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Nowadays, the design appearance or trademark of a commodity always plays an important role in commercial activities. The intellectual property of such design or trademark in Taiwan is protected by the Patent Act or Trademark Act, respectively. Currently, the relevant (more…)

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Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) held annual public meetings on intellectual property matters during this late June to mid-July. Participants included IP practitioners, patent attorneys, applicants, and other members of the public. The meetings were for TIPO (more…)

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In order to speed up the examination process of invention patent applications, Taiwan began the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) program with United States, followed by Japan, Spain and Korea, respectively, from the year of 2011 to 2015. Recently, the Taiwan (more…)

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