Page 87 - 2018 Annual Report Taiwan Intellectual Property Office

TIPO ANNUAL REPORT Unit: Case
Total
Types of Infringement
Year
Internet
Markets
Storefronts
Flyers
Factories
Others
2018
2,135
1,654
77
248 0
85
2017
2,162
1,694
103
108
0
38
219
Rate of Change(%)
-1.2% -2.4% -25.2%
IP Court Rulings
129.6% 0%
123.7%
71 -67.6%
Unit: Case
02
The IP Court’s rulings on patent, trademark and copyright cases are as follows:
Civil Cases
Criminal Cases
Year
First Instance
Second Instance
Special Criminal Law
Violation of Copyright Act
Violation of Trademark Act
Copyrights
Patent Rights
Trademark Rights
Copyrights
Patent Rights
Trademark Rights
2018
97
124
63
23
59
21
60
2017
71
107
47
28
42
15
56
38
Rate of Change(%)
.
41 36.6% 15.9% 34.0% -17.9% 40.5% 40.0% 7.1% 7.9%
Source: Judicial Yuan’s website
03
TIPO organized four IPR Training Sessions in preliminary, intermediate, and advanced levels to strengthen enforcement officers’ professionalism in their investigations of IP infringement. A total of 96 people attended these sessions to step up their investigation of cyber and digital IPR infringement.
04
TIPO set up on its website a special webpage for the IPR Action Plan to continue providing information on the Action Plans of past years, results of counterfeiting investigation by different government agencies, statistics and adjudications of judicial agencies. The objective is to enable different sectors to better understand TIPO’s efforts in coordinating agencies to strengthen counterfeiting investigation under the Action Plan.
To enable different sectors understand the status of Taiwan’s IPR protection, TIPO publishes on its website Quarter IPR Report in English comprising concrete results of the effect made to protect IPR and key international exchange activities. The report is available to the public.
Strengthening Law Enforcement Professionalism
Strengthening the Public’s IPR Protection Awareness
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VII IPR IMPLEMENTATION