IPR Trends Q2 2014: Patent and Trademark Statistics - 2014.08.25
Statistics released by TIPO show an 8.14% drop in overall patenting activities, brought down mainly by decrease in both domestic and foreign invention patent applications. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., the all-time leader in domestic invention filing, saw a 73.03% plunge. The number of pending invention applications, on the other hand, was down for the first time to less than 120,000. In trademark, applications grew by 8.81%. Mainland China, of all the major trademark filing countries, came out on top for the first time with 926 applications.
The number of overall patent applications (18,618) in Q2 2014 was 8.14% less than in Q2 2013. This is because of a 10.81% decrease in invention applications (10,462; Table 1, Fig 1), the greatest drop since Q3 2009. Domestic filings (4,435; -16.43%) were down mainly by a 23.74% slump in corporate applications (3,006); an increase in applications filed by non-corporate nationals (772; +16.27%), however, did little to break this downward spiral. Likewise, decrease in the number of foreign corporate applications (5,814; -5.91%) (Fig. 1) also brought down overall foreign applications (6,027; -6.17%). Breakdown by countries of origin, the top five invention filing countries are Japan (2,661), the U.S.(1,445), South Korea (505), Germany (304), and mainland China (269) (Fig 2).
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Newly-Amended Patent FAQ - 2014.06.11
In cooperation with the amended Patent Act that took effect on January 1, 2013, the new version of Patent FAQ is now available on the official TIPO website.
For more information, please visit our website at
Patent FAQs
http://www.tipo.gov.tw/lp.asp?CtNode=6818&CtUnit=3599&BaseDSD=7&mp=2
Patent Examination and Administrative Remedy
http://www.tipo.gov.tw/public/Data/4669223171.pdf
Patent Act Amendment Concerning Border Protection Measures for Patents Passes in Legislative Yuan - 2014.01.08
On January 3, 2014, the Legislative Yuan passed the Patent Act amendment that includes the addition of 4 border protection provisions (Article 97-1 to 97-4) and a wording revision in Paragraph 2 of Article 143. According to an Additional Resolution at the Legislative Yuan, the coordinating procedures and regulations in regard of this amendment shall be established within 2 months after its promulgation and the new Act shall enter into force therefrom.
Extension of PPH pilot program between USPTO and SIPO - 2014.01.08
State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C. (SIPO) announced on November 29, 2013 that Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program between USPTO and SIPO was extended from December 1, 2013 with no definite end. In addition, the requirements and procedures for submission of PPH requests to both Offices remain unchanged.
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PPH pilot program between TIPO and SPTO launched - 2013.10.15
TIPO launched a patent prosecution highway (PPH) Mottainai pilot program, which is an enhanced version of the general PPH programs, with the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO) on October 1, 2013, allowing both offices to speed up patent examination.
Read more: PPH pilot program between TIPO and SPTO launched - 2013.10.15
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