Franchising in Taiwan: preliminary injunctions
In Part I and Part II of this series of articles we discussed the need to take the common sense precautions of registering any applicable intellectual property and performing…
A ray of hope for transnational same-sex marriage rights in Taiwan
This is a translation of the original Mandarin Chinese article by Kai-yu Chang and Christine Chen, which can be found here. Translation by Paul Cox. How…
Taiwan COVID-19 entry restrictions as of 1 March 2021
Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) has announced new entry restrictions for people entering the country. These new rules came into force on 1 March…
Franchising in Taiwan: due diligence
As in our first installment of this series of articles on franchising in Taiwan, in this second installment we are going to focus on basic…
For many years Winkler Partners has aimed to reduce our negative impact on the natural environment, while looking for meaningful ways where we can create…
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 intellectual property to a franchisee to…
Winkler Partners has been ranked as a top tier firm for intellectual property (enforcement and litigation) by the World Trademark Review. Only three law firms…
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 previous section of this report, we turn now to…
WP featured in article on family-friendly work environments
Winkler Partners’ child friendly policies were recently featured in an article by Social Enterprise Insights that looked at how businesses in Taiwan can do more…
Megan Chiu joins Winkler Partners as a Compliance Specialist, assisting clients establish Taiwan entities, handling company registration and compliance issues, and assisting foreign professionals apply for…
Winkler Partners is today announcing that we have achieved carbon neutrality for 2020 through reducing our emissions, purchasing green energy credits, and offsetting what we…
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…
Winkler Partners recently welcomed several new members to our legal team. Yi-Kai Chen advises domestic and international clients with enforcement and conflict resolution matters, often those…
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 Court”) and analyze statistics…
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 Quanta Storage…
Impact investing challenges the traditional view that (i) social and environmental issues are best solved through philanthropy and government policy and (ii) market investments should…