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Strengthening Examiners’ Professionalism
TIPO provided training programs for assistant trademark examiners. In addition, to strengthen interdisciplinary experience exchange of the examiners, TIPO occasionally invited local experts to deliver speeches on topics including the experiences of harmonizing the Fair Trade Act with IP laws, discussions on trademark administrative litigation cases, the latest trademark issues in dispute and of concern in mainland China. Furthermore, TIPO chose the "absolute grounds for refusal" of the "Common Guidelines for the Substantive Examination of Trademarks in ASEAN" as the topic for the internal English study group, collecting relevant information for "IPR Protection in Southeast Asian Countries."
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Training Program for Assistant Trademark Examiners in 2018
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Outstanding Examiner Award Ceremony
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Copyright Affairs
The Legislative Yuan completed the first reading of the draft amendment to the Copyright Act on November 10, 2017 and submitted it to the Committee of Economic Affairs for deliberation. The draft amendment to the Copyright Act is the most comprehensive in 20 years. It is in response to digital convergence and aims to build a sound environment for copyright. Regarding the curbing of online copyright infringement, TIPO proactively facilitated the communication between Google and copyright holders, and urged PChome to implement "Follow the Money" measures. To crackdown illegal set-top boxes and apps which provided links to infringing websites, TIPO also assisted relevant industries to promote amendment to the Copyright Act, adding provisions on copyright infringement liability of computer software providers including the act of providing computer software enabling access to infringing websites and acts such as producing, importing and selling infringing set-top boxes. In respect of collective management, TIPO conducted royalty rate review and exchanged opinions with domestic collective management organizations on collective management business development to improve the environment for copyright licensing.
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