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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

SUITE G, 12TH FLOOR, 167 TUN HUA NORTH ROAD, TAIPEI, 10549, TAIWAN

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Web:: www.orrick.com

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What we say about the firm's legal practice in Taiwan

Capital markets

Within Capital markets, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is a third tier firm,

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP advised Taiwanese manufacturer SemiLED on its $102m IPO on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, and Memory Logic on its Taiwan stock market listing. Edwin Luk, Allen Shyu and Tom Tobiason are the key contacts.

Intellectual property

Within Intellectual property, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is a second tier firm,

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP assists high-profile Taiwan-based IT companies in issues such as cross-border patent litigation, regulatory aspects and portfolio strategies.

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International firms with offices in Taiwan include JTJB Taipei; Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.; K&L Gates; Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP; and Russin & Vecchi (International Legal Counsellors).

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Franchising Guidelines Revamped

The Guidelines Governing Disclosure of Information by Franchisors were first promulgated by the Fair Trade Commission in 1999.

- Formosa Transnational
IP Court clarifies whether online publication counts in patent spat

Under Taiwan’s patent law, an invention must not be published before a patent application is filed in order for it to be patentable.

- Formosa Transnational
Director’s Implied Agreement to Electronic Notice for Convening Board Meetings

According to the Companies Act, “in convening a meeting of the Board of Directors, a notice setting forth therein the subject(s) to be discussed at the meeting shall be given to each Director and Supervisor no later than 7 days prior to the scheduled meeting date.

- Formosa Transnational
TIPO determines royalty rates for public performance

The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) recently completed a review of several copyright public performance royalty rates set by copyright collective management organizations (CMOs).

- Formosa Transnational
Rules for Compensation Committee Settled

In the December/January 2011 issue, we reported that an amendment to the Securities and Exchange Law was adopted to request listing companies establishing compensation committees. And, under the authorization of the Law, qualifications of the members and the competence of the compensation committee will be promulgated by the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), the financial regulator in Taiwan.

- Formosa Transnational
Proposed Amendments to Insurance Law to Deter Unapproved Offshore Insurance Policies and...

to Enable Collection of Sensitive Personal Data

- Formosa Transnational
Proposal to amend Company Law

In 2009 the government proposed amendments to the Company Law (the Law) and on January 3 2011, the Economic Committee of Legislative Yuan passed the first reading of the amendments. The main points are summarised below.

- Formosa Transnational
Taiwan Company Law provides favourable conditions for business establishment

The codified Taiwan Company Law constitutes the major regime of Taiwan corporate law and systematically covers matters from establishment, management and audit structure, accounting, merger and split-up to dissolution and liquidation.

- Formosa Transnational
Taiwan provides safe harbour for ISPs in copyright infringement cases

On 21st April 2009, in light of the increase in online copyright infringement in recent years, the Legislative Yuan completed the third and final reading of the Internet Service Provider (ISP) Liability Limitation Bill, which amends the Copyright Act to strengthen the protection of copyrighted materials on the Internet.

- Formosa Transnational
Amendment to patent examination guidelines regarding determination of filing dates

In order to harmonise Taiwan’s practice further with international patent prosecution practice, the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) recently completed an amendment to the Procedural Examination Guidelines. The amendment focuses on how to determine the filing date of a patent application.

- Formosa Transnational