Articles from April 2001
Is Taiwan on a Priority Path?
Over the past decade, Taiwan has gone from intellectual property pest to promising pupil and back again if we are to judge by the Special 301 lists on intellectual property rights announced each year by the United States Trade Representative (USTR).
April 30 is the date for the decision, and all signs are pointing to the probability that Taiwan's status will be “upgraded” from the Watch List, where it has found itself since an out-of-cycle August 1998 review, to the more serious Priority Watch List. While an "upgrade," in Special 301 parlance, is not a positive occurrence, there may be a silver lining, and the authors are optimistic that this year’s Special 301 process may portend brighter days ahead for IPR protection in Taiwan...Download Full PDF
Categorised in Feature. Tagged: commercial , IP
Immigration and Nationality, Center for International Legal Studies, Taiwan Chapter
Taiwan (the Republic of China or ROC) is located off the coast of southeast China. It occupies a land area about the size of The Netherlands—approximately 36,000 square kilometers. A population nearing twenty-one million makes Taiwan one of the most densely populated countries in the world...Download Full PDF
Categorised in Feature. Tagged: employment , immigration , labor
Court Extends the Boundary of Use
The Taiwan High Court has ruled that a trademark, which does not appear in the traditional forms, such as packaging, constitutes use, so long as the trademark is identical to wherever it appears...Full PDF Article
