A set of Draft Amendments to the Foreign Trade Act aiming to augment sanction on fraudulent origin labeling, or what local media coined as "origin laundering," was approved by the Executive Yuan on May 16, 2019.

On November 16, 2022, the Taiwan IP Office announced that, from January 2023 onwards, patent and trademarks applicants will be offered the option to receive electronic Patent/Trademark Certificates instead of paper copies.

Taiwan's Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) will hold a public hearing on February 25, 2019 on reforms of administrative appeals system.

The IP Court's decision was reversed and remanded by Taiwan's Supreme Court.

On May 4, 2020, the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) issued on its website an announcement clarifying how patent or trademark applicants may seek COVID-19 related deadline relief.

Utility model (UM) patents in Taiwan are issued without substantive examination as to novelty and inventive step.

One feature of Taiwan's Patent Law (and its entire IP laws) that many patentees find interesting is the lack of indirect infringement.

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...

For years patent practitioners in Taiwan had been looking forward to an IP Court decision affirming a patent's non-obviousness (or inventive step in local legal terms) on the ground of commercial success, ...

It has been a longstanding practice that third parties are allowed to submit comments and evidence of their own accord in pending trademark applications, and there is a noticeable trend that pre-issuance submissions ...

The amended Pharmaceutical Affairs Act embracing the Patent Linkage System, among others, devised to foster better development of the new biomedical industry in Taiwan through early resolution of patent disputes ...

Taiwan's Intellectual Property & Commercial Court published a decision on August 30, upholding the Taiwan IP Office's ruling that an artificial intelligence system cannot be named as a patent inventor.

Since 2004, protection of plant breeder's right in Taiwan has become largely in line with the benchmarks set by the 1997 Act of the UPOV's Convention (although Taiwan is not a member.)...

According to the IBMOJ's press release, before the launch of the said app, forensic reports in Taiwan were prepared in hard copy.

Based upon such recordal, Customs will conduct goods inspection.

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"...

At the beginning of January 2018, a patent linkage system was promulgated and introduced into the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act.

On April 19, 2022, the Taiwan IP Office (TIPO) submitted to the Executive Yuan (Taiwan's highest executive branch of the Government) the draft Patent Law Amendment which has undergone several rounds of public hearings in the past 12 months.

One of the most straightforward and cost-effective approaches for a trademark owner to halt infringement is to seek customs border protection.

Taiwan's Supreme Court delivered a decision on this issues in June 2021. Taiwan High Prosecutors Office v. Chen, 110 Tai Shang 3193, Taiwan's S. Ct. (June 2021).