Page 51 - 2018 Annual Report Taiwan Intellectual Property Office

TIPO ANNUAL REPORT IV. e–ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES
In order to develop high-quality intellectual property infrastructure, TIPO continues to provide many services that are faster and more convenient for users. For instance, TIPO in 2018 strengthened the Industrial Patent Knowledge Platform System, increased file converter performance of the e-filing system, and added QR code on reissued certificates, etc. In addition, TIPO celebrated the 10th anniversary of e-filing service with a review of the developments and achievements over the past years.
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e-Services
10-Year Milestone Archives of E-filing Service
Public Services
It has been 10 years since TIPO launched the Patent and Trademark e-filing service on August 27, 2008. When we look back to 2008, TIPO received only 192 e-filing applications in the first month. Nowadays, more than half of filing documents are received through the e-filing system, and e-filing rate of new applications is over 70%.
Over the past ten years, TIPO has continued to offer many e-filing services to meet users’ needs. Below are important measures and achievements over the years:
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Milestone of E-filing
Aug
Launched e-filing service v1.0
Feb
eATM online payment service
Apr
Range of agreed account
withholding banks extended to all domestic banks
Oct
Introduced a universal form for e-filing
2011
Apr
Launched online payment of patent annuities
May
Set up an IPR counseling team
Aug
Service hours extended to 9pm
Jan
Launched 24/7 e-filing service
Jul
Launched priority document online transmission Launched 24/7 e-delivery service
Jul
Launched e-filing service v1.5 (HTML2PDF and E-SET)
Nov
Launched trademark registration fee online payment
Apr Increased file
converter performance of e-filing system
2017 2018
Jan
Launched e-receipt service
Feb
Extended support for 64-bit version of MS WORD Add-Ins for e-filing
2008
2014
2016
2010 2009
Mar
Began issuance of TIPO digital certificate
2012
Jan
Launched e-filing service
v2.0 (MS WORD Add-Ins) May
Launched e-delivery service Dec
Allowed for sequence listing in PDF or Text format
Launched e-modification Dec
service
Allowed for subsequent documents without basic information
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