July 18, 2022
Taiwan’s Judiciary Says Intellectual Property Complaints Can Be Made Online The Judicial Yuan’s electronic litigation and online indictment platform has begun taking complaints about intellectual property infringements.  This new service is partly in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and also because digitization is more environmentally friendly.  For civil and administrative suits involving intellectual property, the system receives requests to upload only legal documents involving provisional attachments, the preservation of evidence, provisional injunctions maintaining a temporary status quo, and the enforcement of a suspension of action.  In the event that the plaintiff in an intellectual property case agrees to an administrative lawsuit, the Intellectual Property and Commercial Court can also upload the litigation documents and the official copy of the ruling to the platform.  Once the upload has been completed and the files are in the system archives, it is considered legally binding and any rulings on the document would be effective immediately.  The Judicial Yuan has urged the public to use the platform as it is in accord with the government policy of becoming carbon neutral by 2050. TIPO Publishes Patent Applications Data. The Intellectual Property Office in Taiwan has published the statistics for patent applications for the first quarter in 2022.  In that time period, TIPO received a total of 17,498 patent applications which was a 2% increase year on year.  There were 12,534 invention patent applications (a 5% increase), 3,328 utility model patent applications (a 6% decrease), and 1,636 design patent applications (a 5% decrease).  8,983 patent applications were filed by foreign applicants, which was an increase of 7% mainly attributed to a jump in the number...