The amendments to the Patent Act released on May 1, 2019 entered into force on November 1, 2019. Consequently, amendments to the Enforcement Rules of the Patent Act and the Regulations of Patent Fees

    In Q3 2019, TIPO received a total of 18,976 applications for invention, utility model and design patents, a 4% increase from the same period of last year. Applications for trademark

    The 2nd TIPO-CGPDTM Patent Examiners Exchange took place from October 21 to 25, 2019 at the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office. With two assistant controllers from India’s Of

Today (October 30th), the Taiwan-Japan Relations Association and Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association signed the MoUs on Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) and on Design Patent Priority Document Exchange (

In continuation of the discussions on the amendments to the Trademark Act last year (2018), and in response to global legal trends and Taiwan’s examination requirements, TIPO collected suggestio

The amendments to the Patent Act promulgated on May 1, 2019 will come into force on November 1, 2019. The main points of the amended act include: the term of protection of a design patent will extend