To assist in building IP Portfolio for Precision Health – one of the Six Core Strategic Industries of Taiwan – TIPO held various speeches, consultations, and interviews throughout 2021, intending to facilitate conversations between TIPO, the precision health industry, and research institutions. Addi

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Japan Patent Office (JPO) intend to further improve their Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) programs.The PPH is a fast-track examination framework that enables users to make a simple request to accelerate examination of a patent application pe

Today, history is being written - the last hurdle now gone for a unitary patent As early as 2009, 25 EU countries agreed on a solution to achieve a unitary patent system. In practice, however, the solution could not be launched because questions about the validity of the agreements were raised in th

In response to the latest version of Nice Classification NCL (11-2022), TIPO has amended its own list of Names of Designated Goods and Services for Trademark Registration, effective January 1, 2022. The changes include 45 revisions and 556 additions. As for amends done to class/subclass names or not

1. If the name or address of the trademark registrant is to be modified, the trademark registrant shall change all registered trademarks together. For registered trademarks that need to be modified together, the applicant can apply for cancellation if they are no longer in use.2. If the modification