2019 Annual Report Intellectual Property Office

V. IPR CREATION AND USE To explore businesses' needs for patent-related services, deepen their R&D personnel's patent knowledge, TIPO visited 20 medical equipment enterprises and offered consulting services for 30 enterprises to introduce its IPKM platform. TIPO also held the "Seminar on Corporate Intellectual Property Strategy Layout" and organized 20 trainings courses. To provide more diverse IP info to the industries, TIPO collected R&D information such as reports on international R&D and innovation technology resource, online training videos and expert articles. These are available on the IPKM platform. To increase SMEs' innovation capabilities and their effective use of government resources, TIPO's branch offices provided free customized IPR courses. The subjects covered patent search and application practices, IPR portfolios, trade secret protection and copyright basics. A total of 16 SMEs benefited from the customized courses. To assist companies to conduct industry analysis and develop patent portfolios, TIPO held 6 information sessions on industry analysis from patent search, which focused on explaining how to use GPSS and TWPAT for patent search, patent mining, drawing patent maps, and analyzing the technology trends. According to the "Directions of Identifying Qualification for the Professional Organization of Consortium Legal Person that Performs the Evaluation of Intellectual Property Layout Analysis Report", TIPO appointed scholars and experts to form a review committee and complete review process to meet future needs of application of professional organizations. Assistance to the Government in Strengthening R&D Quality of Academic and Research Institutions Deepening the Use of Industrial IP Knowledge Assisting SMEs in Increasing Innovation Capabilities and IPR Awareness Information Sessions on Industry Analysis from Patent Search A course on patent application practices offered at a company by TIPO's Hsinchu Branch office A course on patent application practices offered at TIPO's Tainan Branch office 2019 TIPOANNUAL REPORT 61