01 January, 2004
Building and Enforcing Intellectual Propery
The environment for building and enforcing intellectual property rights in Taiwan has continued to evolve apace since Taiwan’s accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in January 2002. In 2003, there have been substantial revisions to the Patent, Copyright and Trademark Acts and numerous high-profile programmes to bolster the government’s efforts at combating IP infringement. President Chen Shui-bian pronounced 2002 as the Action Year for IPR Protection; the successor to that campaign, the Comprehensive Three-Year Action Plan for IPR protection, was implemented in January 2003. Taiwan is trying to establish itself as a healthy environment for the... Download Full PDF
