Taiwan took a major step forward a year ago in protecting intellectual property rights when legislators passed a law to establish a “Patent Linkage” system for safeguarding patents on pharmaceuticals. Distressingly, the government now appears to be preparing to take a big step backward by limiting the coverage of that law. Rules being proposed by…
Through improved legislation, stricter enforcement, and the fast-tracking of intellectual property rights (IPR) cases through the court system, Taiwan has developed one of the strongest IPR protection regimes in the Asia Pacific region. While acknowledging the progress already achieved, however, the Intellectual Property & Licensing section of the newly published 2017 Taiwan White Paper of…
