While both criminal data and medical records are considered "sensitive data" under the Personal Information Protection Act, a newly proposed amendment puts medical records into yet another category in which public interest is no longer a justifiable reason for collecting them.

Acronym trademarks are widely used by international brands for their simplicity and versatility.

In 2019, an amendment to Taiwan's Copyright Law was made to combat set-top boxes and programs used for copyright infringement. A new clause (Clause 8) was added to the list in Article 87...

According to Article 3, Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 11 of the Copyright Act, an "adaptation" refers to the creation of another work based on a pre-existing work by translation, musical arrangement, revision, filming, or other means.

The PIF system employed in the new law was modeled after the EU counterpart.

On August 5, 2024, the Intellectual Property and Commercial Court (hereinafter the "IP Court") issued its Civil Judgment No. 112-Min-Shang-Su-Zi-54, which analyzes and assesses whether a licensor can terminate a license agreement on the grounds that the licensee has exceeded the scope of the license.

Multi-level marketing and direct selling occupy an important position in the market as business models, while the recent development of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought revolutionary changes to the business field.

The defendant is protected by the presumption of innocence and has the right to silence.

In a news alert published earlier this year, we outlined the development of the "Mosaic Theory" in Taiwan's privacy law. As in many countries, installing a GPS tracker on a suspect's ...

For example, an unconditional offer is one of the usual suspects of misleading advertising.

The government of Taiwan is actively looking into enacting legislation in response to the problems associated with spam.

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.

Over-the-Top (hereinafter "OTT") streaming technology has introduced revolutionary business models to the audiovisual industry, while also giving rise to controversies...

Taiwan’s legal system offers several useful tools for taking action against infringers in technology cases that offer good value for rights holders willing to think flexibly. With the decriminalization of patent infringement over the past several years, purely civil patent claims can be effective but do not have the strength of a combined assault on the infringer using patent, copyright, attachment of assets, trade-secrets, fair-trade, contract and import/export laws. When possible, we recommend

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Taiwan's robust IT industry, increasing openness to foreign investment and foreign-owned companies, and incremental progress in its digitalisation efforts are increasing its desirability as a market for investors and business leaders in Asia Pacific.