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」...
Regarding patent applications during the third quarter of 2016, the total amount of patent applications in Taiwan including three types of patent reach 18,121 and have increased by 0.34% compared to the same period of last year...
After four months examination, the Ministry of Economic Affairs Intellectual Property Office has selected 44 outstanding patents from 474 selected cases. Among them, many patents are jointly developed by industry, academy and research institute...
Taiwan Code of Civil Procedure article 496(11)：「Except where the party has filed an appeal to assert the ground for a review or has failed to assert such ground known to him/her, a rehearing action may be initiated to request a review...