Taiwan: Intellectual Property

From July 2024 through May 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office released a trilogy of reports addressing issues at the intersection of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright law.

Over-the-Top (hereinafter "OTT") streaming technology has introduced revolutionary business models to the audiovisual industry, while also giving rise to controversies...

With the prevalence of the internet, people have become accustomed to refer to online reviews for their consumption decision-making and also express their opinions through online reviews after consumption.

The Taiwan Patent Act was amended on December 21, 2021 with the addition of Article 56. Article 56 stipulates that "the scope of a patent, of which a term extension has been granted...

Technology transfer is a common collaboration model among industry, government, and academia. However, technology transfer often gives rise to disputes such as defects in rights, defects in goods, or breach of warranty terms.

Under the Copyright Act, works are generally deemed protected when they embody both the expression of thoughts or emotions and a degree of originality.

The Taiwan Supreme Court has issued a powerful judgment (Burberry v. ETMall, 2025) that offers significant new direction for the calculation of trademark infringement damages.

ENS' IP team likes to monitor IP cases from around the world. Although we deal with all sorts of trade mark issues, we admit that it is confusingly similarity claims...

Regular readers of our articles will know that we like to discuss trade mark cases from around the world and that many of the cases we report on are what would be referred to as ‘confusingly similar trade mark cases'. In this article, we discuss two trade mark cases recently heard in Taiwan.