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(5) The rate of online payment cases grew over 30%
Thanks to the growth of e-receipt usage, the rate of online payment increased to 34.4% in Q4 2018.
Percentage of Online Payment
34.9%
25.5% 20.4%
32.6% 29.9%
27.5%
34.4%
2018Q4 Quarter
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Note: The percentage is derived from using the number of payment cases as the denominators and that of online payment cases as the numerators.
TIPONet https://tiponet.tipo.gov.tw/
e-Delivery
With regard to e-delivery of patent and trademark documents, a total of 387,579 documents were delivered electronically in 2018, marking an increase of 5.3% from 2017. In Q4 2018, e-delivery rate of documents hit an all-time high at 76.8%.
To expand the service scope of e-delivery of patent documents and provide comprehensive information to users, TIPO launched a new service to provide patent search reports with non-patent citations by e-Delivery on September 1, 2018.
20.1%
2017Q1 2017Q2
2017Q3 2017Q4
2018Q1 2018Q2 2018Q3
Percentage of e-Delivery
Patent
Tardemark
80.7%
Total
81.6%
80.1%
74.4%
64.9%
2017Q4
79.5%
81.5%
76.8%
69.4%
74.6%
66.6%
2018Q1
75.4%
76.0%
66.8%
2018Q2
67.3%
2018Q3
2018Q4
Quarter
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