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E-SERVICES AND PUBLIC ACCESS TO INFORMATION
ins. This is an indication that the plug-ins
are highly accepted by the industries.
TIPO will include more
e
-filing forms in the
future and merge the old and new e-filing
systems to enhance rate of use.
14.6% 15.1% 16.2% 17.0% 19.8%
15.9%
25.3%
30.5%
41.0%
47.9%
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Patent Applications
Trademark Applications
Percentage of Patent and Trademark
e
-filing
Note
1. All figures are based on new application cases.
2. Percentage is calculated using the number of
hardcopies plus electronic applications as denomi-
nator, and electronic applications as numerator.
Information on Goods and Ser-
vices
In response to the diverse devel-
opment of commercial activities and
revision to the 10
th
edition of the NICE In-
ternational Classification of Goods and
Services, TIPO reviewed and revised its
classification of designated goods and
services for trademark registration. The
titles or groups of a total of 285 goods
and services, as well as 29 notes were
revised. These revisions took effect in
July. TIPO also compiled a Chinese-Eng-
lish edition of classes 1 to 45 for public
reference.
Open Access to Patent and
Trademark Gazette
The online gazette was launched in
October to give access to high-value
and re-processable gazette data. This
availability is aimed at encouraging pri-
vate sectors to develop their own data
services. Currently, 30 patent and trade-
mark datasets are free for download;
this is an accumulation of 5TB of data.
There are now 250,000 cases of patent
data and 210,000 cases of trademark
data available. As of the end of 2014,
the public had downloaded a total of
1.5 million files.
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Upgrading Search Functions
2
To provide businesses with patent
portfolio and analytical application,
TIPO added a number of new functions
to the Taiwan Patent Search System.
These include patent statistical charts,
technology life cycle chart, search of
cited reference, machine translation of
patent specifications, personalization
settings, and hyperlinks to case file data.