2019 Annual Report Intellectual Property Office

IV. e–ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES On May 10, TIPO published on its website the List of Officially Recognized International Exhibitions Qualified for Claiming Right of Exhibition Priority to provide reference to applicants wishing to claim right of exhibition priority. TIPO collected, compiled and summarized 76 trade secret rulings from all levels of courts to help businesses stay abreast of relevant judicial practices and trends. This important compilation is structured on the basis of trade secret's three components, civil liability in the damages for trade secret infringement, criminal liability, evidence preservation procedures, and confidentiality protective order. On April 16, TIPO published on its website the updated "Statistics on Registered Geographical Marks by Case" and the "List of Registered Geographical Marks." Geographical marks are listed by class, and the registration information is updated according to the Trademark Gazette. There are hyperlinks accessing the Trademark Search System which contains more detailed information of each geographical mark. Back in 2013, TIPO published the Trade Secret Protection Playbook to help businesses build a more comprehensive trade secret protection mechanism. Six years following the book's publication, TIPO used its accumulated experiences and practices to publish the updated Playbook 2.0 that focuses on processes of implementing reasonable confidentiality measures. The viewpoints of judicial rulings were adopted to provide suggestions to businesses creating confidentiality protective measures. TIPO added Mandarin translation of US, EU, and Japanese trademark laws and regulations to the "Trademark Laws and Regulations of Other Countries" webpage of its official "Trademark Laws and Regulations" website. List of Officially Recognized International Exhibitions Qualified for Claiming Right of Exhibition Priority Published Compilation of the Important Court Rulings on Trade Secret Lawsuits List and Statistics on Geographical Marks Updated Playbook for Trade Secret Protection 2.0 Translation of US, EU, and Japanese Trademark Laws and Regulations Trade Secrets 2019 TIPOANNUAL REPORT 57