In a recent decision on a copyright infringement dispute, the IP Court judges once again demonstrated their adeptness in interpreting problematic contractual wordings ...

In Taiwan's patent and trademark law regimes, the doctrine of international exhaustion is still the benchmark for addressing issues of parallel imports, also called "water goods"...

In Taiwan, a Geographical Indication (GI) may be registered as a certification mark or a collective trademark to be protected under Taiwan's Trademark Law.

"Trademark Use," as provided in Article 5 of the Trademark Law, means the use of a trademark for marketing purposes in any of the following manners to enable the relevant consumers to recognize it as a source-identifier:

Rights holders looking at Asia-Pacific enforcement budgets often have to make hard decisions about where to take action.

The Taiwan Supreme Court has issued a powerful judgment (Burberry v. ETMall, 2025) that offers significant new direction for the calculation of trademark infringement damages.

Regular readers of our articles will know that we enjoy reviewing and discussing cases dealing with confusingly similar trade marks from around the globe. This time around, we discuss two interesting cases in Taiwan.

As big brands increasingly engage in developing their metaverses or joining one, new issues have occurred in protection and enforcement of trademark rights in this unchartered virtual world.

Under the practice of Taiwan's Intellectual Property, when determining the similarity of trademarks, only characters in the same language contained in the trademarks under comparison will be considered.

Regular readers of our articles will know that we like to discuss trade mark cases from around the world and that many of the cases we report on are what would be referred to as ‘confusingly similar trade mark cases'. In this article, we discuss two trade mark cases recently heard in Taiwan.

We receive a fair number of intellectual property ("IP") case reports from Taiwan, and we like to report on these Taiwanese cases for one simple reason – these tend to be well written and they are easy to follow.

ENS' IP team likes to monitor IP cases from around the world. Although we deal with all sorts of trade mark issues, we admit that it is confusingly similarity claims...

商標権者にとって、税関での水際取締措置を利用することは、商標権侵害となる模倣品の輸出入を防ぐための最も簡易で費用対効果の高い

In this article, we discuss a case in Taiwan dealing with confusingly similar trade marks, as well as an EU case that shines a light on certain trade mark principles. To begin, we'll take a look at Taiwan and the VW device mark.

Official documents can be served electronically according to the draft amendment.

最近（2021年2月）、台湾の知的財産裁判所は、ある商標権侵害事件の中間判決（109年度民商訴字第27号）を下した。

台湾では、専利権消尽について、「特許権の効力は、次に掲げるものに及ばない。…六、特許権者が製造、又は特許権者の同意を得て製造し

台湾商標法第36条第1項第3号によると、「他人の商標の登録出願日より前に、善意で同一又は類似の商標を同一又は類似の商品又は役務に使用

A Cantonese company being a pioneer in Karaoke booth designs was recently awarded damages of NT$5 million by Taiwan's IP Court in a passing off case against a Taiwanese company.

Trademarks Comparative Guide for the jurisdiction of Taiwan, check out our comparative guides section to compare across multiple countries