Intellectual Property

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

Creative works as NFTs and relevant legal issues in Taiwan


Blockchain or distributed ledger technology is the primary technology upon which cryptocurrencies, utility tokens, security tokens, and similar produc...

November 23, 2021

Franchising in Taiwan: protecting your trademarks


Franchising arrangements are essentially just a specialized form of intellectual property license. A franchisor, or rights owner, licenses its intelle...

March 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

A new positive patent examination program for startups


Lack of funds and tangible assets is a common problem for startups, and one which often proves fatal. To address this issue, Taiwan began promoting in...

January 4, 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

How Taiwan’s TAICCA is supporting creative industries


Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) is a new government institute under the Ministry of Culture aimed at catalyzing the development of Taiwan’s ...

August 24, 2020

Exploring statistics at the Taiwan Intellectual Property Court: part II litigation


After taking a look at the caseload of Taiwan’s Intellectual Property Court (“IP Court”) in part one, we now focus on the number of litigation ...

July 21, 2020