Dispute Resolution

“ABC Company”? “XYZ Group”? Confirming the Correct Name of the Defendant and Ensuring Proper Document Service to Enforce Foreign Judgments in Taiwan


In a previous article, we discussed some factors that could make a foreign civil judgment unenforceable in Taiwan. Among such factors, the most common...

August 23, 2024

How to Serve Documents to Defendants in Taiwan to Ensure the Enforceability of Civil Judgments in Taiwan?


In a previous article, we introduced the procedures for enforcing foreign civil judgments in Taiwan and some factors that can make a foreign civil jud...

August 7, 2024

Google Remembers Your Dark Past: Can I Claim the “Right to be Forgotten” in Taiwan?


Many people might have had the experience of searching up their own names on the Internet. These web searches give us the means to dig up nostalgia-ev...

May 13, 2024

Taiwan Courts to Introduce AI-Assisted Judgment Drafting


To alleviate the workload of judges and enhance the efficiency of trials, the Judicial Yuan (Taiwan’s judicial authority) has commissioned Chunghwa ...

November 1, 2023

Recent developments in Taiwan’s trade secrets protection regime


In recent years, trade secret infringement cases have continually popped up in Taiwan’s news media. In one example, Ability Opto-electronics Technol...

December 8, 2021

Exploring statistics at the Taiwan Intellectual Property Court: part IV administrative litigation


Having highlighted some interesting statistics regarding civil judgements rendered by the Intellectual Property Court (“IP Court”) in the previou...

February 19, 2021

Exploring statistics at the Taiwan Intellectual Property Court: part III civil litigation


In this part of our report (previous parts one and two are here), we look at civil judgments rendered by the Intellectual Property Court (“IP Co...

December 17, 2020

Enforcing foreign judgments in Taiwan


In June 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a U.S. $439 million judgment against Taiwan-based technology company Q...

November 30, 2020