华鼎国际法律事务所
华鼎国际专利商标事务所

TIPO has established certificate document example database for international priority of patent application.

“Notice for making specification and drawings of design patent(Ver.202309)”is announced.

TIPO provided patent/trademark certificate searching system from 2017 for the inquiry of latest status of granted patent/trademark with the searching conditions of certificate number, application number, assignee/attorney, issuance date and title.

The certificate searching system is now improved to be more user-friendly.  It can support the browsing from mobile device, and the list of search result is not limited by the past constraint, namely, 500 results.

To enhance the completeness and transparency of Taiwan IP information, TIPO has cooperated with petition and appeal committee of MOEA and Judicial Yuan and added the appeal cases of trademark and patent for the past five years and the cases of related litigation since 2021 into TIPONET and TIPO trademark search system.  The service will be available from Dec. 19, 2022.

Besides browsing appeal and litigation on website, the user may download the appeal decision and written judgment of litigation.  The interfaces of TIPONET and TIPO trademark search system are also enhanced for more intuitional enquiry.

In response to the new twelfth edition of the Nice Classification NCL (12-2023), TIPO has amended its own list of Names of Designated Goods and Services for Trademark Registration, effective January 1, 2023. The changes include 48 removals and 481 additions.  As to class/subclass names or notes, there are 42 revisions.

The above amendment will be effective on January 1, 2023. The list of Names of Designated Goods and Services for electronic trademark application system will be updated accordingly.

For the applicant wanting to enjoy fast track examination and using the electronic trademark application system after January 1, 2023, he/she is advised to download the updated list featuring all incorporated changes.  The applicant filling out applications with names of goods and services not found on the system’s current list will not qualify for the application fee deduction and fast track examination.

The Examination Guidelines on Distinctiveness of Trademarks will be enforced on September 1, 2022. 

  The Examination Guidelines on Distinctiveness of Trademarks in Chinese can be downloaded with PDF format in this link.

Taiwan had declared the mission of net zero emission by 2050.  For better understanding the scope of designated goods/services when filing trademark application, TIPO had compiled green-industry related goods/service trademark applications for the reference of relevant companies engaging in this industry. 

  The newly added “Green industry” section includes green energy, carbon right and related energy business, pollution processing and regenerating utilization, green building to zero-carbon building, green industry related certificate and so on. 

  The manual also provides cross reference between the industries and the goods/services name in Nice Classification for clear demarcation of trademark scope.

The Metaverse is all the latest buzz, and in the field of intellectual property, there are increasing discussions on its relationship to trademarks and copyrights as infringements have already occurred. 

  In light of the fact that there are very few cases of Metaverse-related design patent applications filed both domestic and abroad, as well as a conspicuous lack of academic journals, adjudications, and media reports on the subject, TIPO decided to compile a report on the matter for public reference.

  The report covers whether a Metaverse design patent can be filed, how the application would be examined, and the validity of such a patent.