Do I Need Clout to Protect My Name?
– The concurrence of name rights and trademark rights

After the fight for the 2022 Qatar World cup came to a close, a series of new battles in the world of trademarks popped up. In China, media outlets re...

Will I Waive my Right to Claim Trademark Infringement by Being Silent About Counterfeit Products?

For trademark owners, counterfeiting has always been a very troubling issue. Sometimes, even if a company knows that counterfeit goods are circulating...

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...

When claiming trademark priority in Taiwan, choice of country can make a difference

When filing a trademark application in Taiwan, an applicant may use the first application filed in a foreign jurisdiction to serve as a basis for a pr...

TIPO announces directions on third-party observations regarding trademark applications

The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) has released “Operational Directions on Trademark Applications Submitted by Third Parties”, which a...

WP secures registration of historic motion mark

Winkler Partners is happy to announce that we recently obtained a historic trademark registration on behalf of one of the world's largest social media...

Security interests in IP rights in Taiwan

Security interests in IP may be recorded with the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) as a pledge, either by the rights owner or by the pledgee...

Do trademark rights owners have recourse against similarly transliterated names?

Chinese, like many languages, has established commonly-followed conventions for transliterating names in foreign languages. Names of famous people, br...