In order to protect the rights of well-known trademark’s owners, the national laws or international conventions provide much stronger protection to well-known trademarks than general registered trademarks. For Taiwan, the regulation protecting the
Can an unregistered, used trademark oppose a registered but contested trademark in Taiwan? The trademark registration system in Taiwan operates...
Da Zhuang Company (“Da Zhuang”) plans to set up their own brand “Zhuang Yin” for the beverage store, besides, Da Zhuang already instructed a company
To facilitate Taiwan in joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act coming into force on Aug. 20, 2019 in Taiwan has incorporated patent linkage. Earlier, the TIPO started to draft...
A phenomenon of bioluminescence of marine microorganisms in Matsu is called “Blue Tear”, which has become a local tourist attraction.
In Taiwan, patent applicants often receive an official action made by the examiner against an invention patent for lacking the non-obviousness of patentability. Even though relative regulations and brief enumerations are provided in Taiwan Patent...
Regarding patent applications during the first half of 2017, the total amount of patent applications in Taiwan including three types of patent reaches 35,566, with 21,913 invention patent applications, 9,694 utility model applications...
Recently, the legislature passed amendments related to grace period in the Patent Act; that are, extending the grace period from six months to twelve months and deleting the obligation to the claim grace period while filing.
The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office releases a report referring to green energy patent application and the distribution of IPC of the green energy patents from 2005 to 2015. This report focuses on seven major green energy industries in Taiwan...
Legal Context：Taiwan Patent Article 124（1）：「A design patent shall not be granted in respect of the shape of an article solely dictated by its function」...