TIPO Releases IPR Statistics for the First Half of 2020 - 2020.08.11

In the first half of 2020, TIPO received a total of 33,954 applications for invention, utility model, and design patents, marking a 4% decrease over the same period last year. On the other hand, the number of trademark registration applications hit a record high with 43,385 cases (see Table 1). In terms of invention patent applications, TSMC topped domestic applicants and QUALCOMM topped foreign applicants (see Figure 2). The applications by domestic SMEs grew by 14%.

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The provisions governing matters relating to patent applications are relaxed after promulgation of the amended Enforcement Rules of the Patent Act - 2020.07.27

On June 24, 2020, the Enforcement Rules of the Patent Act was amended to relax regulation, and broaden public participation in examinations to increase examination quality.

The key revisions include an invention patent applicant who uses an electronic file format prescribed by TIPO to submit a listing of nucleotides and/or amino acids sequence may be exempted from submission in written form. Also, the restriction where a third party may submit observation to TIPO only after the publication of the invention patent application is now relaxed. Any person may submit observations prior to an examination decisions being rendered.

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TIPO releases the English edition of the annual report - 2020.07.27

In 2019, TIPO celebrated its 20^th anniversary of its establishment.

In 2019, the Copyright Act was amended in May to impose civil and criminal liabilities on any person providing computer programs which have aggregated IP addresses that enable access to infringing contents. The purpose is to curb the circulation of illegal set-top boxes.

In November, the Patent Act was amended to extend the term of protection for design patent from 12 to 15 years. In addition, the restriction on post-grant division of invention and utility model patents was relaxed, and an invalidation requester should submit grounds thereof within three months after the request is filed. The amendment is to facilitate development in Taiwan’s design industry and increase the efficiency in the examination of invalidation cases.

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Analysis of trademark applications and the trend in business development in the past decade - 2020.07.10

In recent years, TIPO has been publishing patent application analysis reports of domestic and foreign businesses’ patent portfolios and the trend in their development. These reports have received great attention from various sectors.

This year, with reference to the “World Intellectual Property Indicators 2019 (WIPI 2019)” published by WIPO IP Statistics Data Center, TIPO uses similar method to group Nice classes assigned to designated goods or services of trademark applications into ten industry sectors (see attached chart), and publishes the report “Analysis of the trend in trademark applications from 2010 to 2019 by industry sector.” It is the result of collecting and organizing more than 770,000 trademark applications over the ten-year span, and the complicated data is converted into easily-understood graphs and charts by employing data visualization and data-driven strategy.

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