In 2018, a total of 1,567 AI-related invention patent
applications were filed in Taiwan by 521 applicants, according to a
Report released by TIPO on December 3, 2019.
Out of the 521 applicants, only 12 filed more than 20 AI-related
invention applications that year, which are Alibaba HK, Beijing
Didi Infinity Technology & Development Co., Ltd, Samsung
Electronics, KLA-Tencor, ITRI (a Taiwan government sponsored
research institute), Google, CHT (a leading telecommunication
company in Taiwan), Qualcomm, ASML, Semiconductor Energy Laboratory
Co., Ltd., Institute for Information Industry (another Taiwan
government sponsored entity), and Acer. As many of the surveyed
filings have yet to be laid open, the TIPO's Report does not
provide these applicants' respective filing numbers other than
a jurisdictional breakdown.
