2019 Annual Report Intellectual Property Office

V. IPR CREATION AND USE Computer vision Speech processing Natural language processing Planning and scheduling Predictive analysis Robotics Control methods Knowledge representation and reasoning Distributed AI Telecommunications 13 1 2 1 16 2 4 1 Transportation 56 4 2 33 7 7 Life andmedical sciences 109 5 2 59 2 6 1 1 Personal devices, computing and HCI 55 23 9 4 14 23 13 7 Business 52 6 11 67 1 1 Banking and finance 21 1 2 28 1 Security 17 5 1 1 19 1 Networks 5 2 11 2 Document management and publishing 1 Industry and manufacturing 136 3 2 70 3 38 Energymanagement 4 6 20 20 1 Law, social and behavioral sciences 1 Education 2 1 2 1 Entertainment 13 4 1 1 1 1 1 Computing in government 5 5 Agriculture 7 1 8 1 Application Field Functional Application There were 521 applicants, of which only 12 applied for more than 20 inventions. Although inventions filed by resident applicants accounted for 45% of the total applications, only 4 resident applicants entered the top 12. This shows that the distribution of applicants is quite scattered. Most applications concentrated on a handful of applications by SMEs. Of the 517 office actions in the study, 21 cases (4.1%) were not eligible for patenting, 62 cases (12.0%) lacked a sufficient disclosure in the description, 190 cases (36.8%) made unclear claims, 405 cases (78.3%) lacked novelty or inventive step, and 128 cases (24.8%) were not patentable due to other reasons. Since the Patent Act allowed for post-grant division of an invention patent, the number of such requests has seen a year-on-year increase. These requests became the majority. Data also showed that it was one of the important patent portfolio strategies for industry. The current Patent Act extended the range of applicability and the application period. As such, this post-grant division of an invention patent will continue to be the majority for applicants. To understand the changes in the types of industries and technical fields and in response to the needs in the business sector for a flexible scope of patent right protection, TIPO analyzed the application trend from 2013 to 2019 and compared relevant laws and practices between Taiwan and IP5. TIPO also suggested ways Analysis of the Types of Post-Grant Divisional Requests 2019 TIPOANNUAL REPORT 63