Legal 500 Asia Pacific names WP top-tier insurance firm
For the second year in a row, Legal 500 Asia Pacific has recommended Winkler Partners as a top-tier firm in insurance. Led by Chen Hui-ling,…
Winkler Partners reduces carbon footprint
Our firm has recently reduced our carbon footprint! Between 3 June 2013 and 4 August 2013, we achieved a 20% year on year decrease in…
Translations of Taiwan securities laws and regulations updated
Taiwan’s official portal for securities-related laws and regulations was recently updated with changes to nine of its English translations by Winkler Partners. The Winkler Partners Translation Department…
Derivative shareholder litigation in Taiwan
Although Taiwan’s Company Act permitted shareholder derivative actions in 1977, few if any were filed before the Securities and Futures Investor Protection Center gained standing…
Restrictions on what Taiwan job candidates can be asked
Taiwan's labor regulator recently revised its Enforcement Rules for the Employment Services Act following the Act's amendment late last year. In November, the Legislature enacted…
Translations of Taiwan securities laws and regulations updated
Taiwan’s official portal for securities-related laws and regulations was recently updated with changes to nine of its English translations by Winkler Partners. The Winkler Partners Translation Department…
Executive Yuan approves bill to amend Intellectual Property Adjudication Act
Taiwan's Executive Yuan has approved a bill to amend three articles of the Intellectual Property Adjudication Act (IPAA). The bill was drafted based on recommendations…
Translations of Taiwan securities laws and regulations updated
Taiwan’s official portal for securities-related laws and regulations was recently updated with changes to nine of its English translations by Winkler Partners. The Winkler Partners Translation Department…
Freedom of government information in Taiwan
Taiwan's Freedom of Government Information Act (FGIA) took effect in 2005. It was enacted to ...establish institutions for the publication of government information, facilitate people…
Wrongful termination and age discrimination in a Taiwanese employment dispute
The Japan Airlines subsidiary in Taiwan dismissed eighteen of its Taiwanese flight attendants with severance as its parent company was undergoing financial difficulties in 2010.…
Translations of Taiwan securities laws and regulations updated
Taiwan’s official portal for securities-related laws and regulations was recently updated with changes to nine of its English translations by Winkler Partners. The Winkler Partners…
Peter Dernbach appointed WIPO panelist
Peter Dernbach, head of the firm's IP practice, has been appointed as a domain name dispute resolution panelist by the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration…
Copyright for photographs in Taiwan: originality, reasonable use, and U.S. case law
Taiwan’s Supreme Court recently upheld a decision by the Intellectual Property Court holding that the United Daily News’s reprinting of photograph by rival Apple Daily…
The test for well-known trademarks in Taiwan
UCC Holdings Co. Ltd. v. Ministry of Economic Affairs SAC, Pan Zi, NO. 48,2012, IP Court, Xingshang gengyi Zi, No. 1, 2012 Taiwan’s Trademark Act…
Commutation of sentences to fines in Taiwan
As the owners of intellectual property are well aware, convictions for lesser crimes in Taiwan rarely result in the offender actually serving jail time. But…
Chinese suppliers to be treated as foreigners for Taiwan public procurement projects
As Taiwan's opening to China continues, the Executive Yuan's Public Construction Commission has issued a draft amendment to its regulations governing foreign suppliers that will…