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October 2019

LTP Special Column

Brief Analysis on the Application of "Patent Contribution Rate" to the Calculation of Damages in Patent Infringement Cases in Taiwan (Taiwan)

October 2019

Arbitration / Litigation

An actor's knowledge of an illegal act is not limited to the exact knowledge of the penal provisions, and the mere knowledge that the act is not legally permitted will suffice (Taiwan)

October 2019

Arbitration / Litigation

Whether an offense is established or a criminal penalty should be exempt should be determined based on civil-law relations; and in a civil case where a complaint has been filed, a criminal court has the discretionary right under the law to decide if the criminal trial will be stayed before the civil proceedings are concluded without been bound by any motion of a party, and it is not true that the criminal court that does not stay the trial would violate the law (Taiwan)

October 2019

Tax

For a foreign insurance company whose head office is not located in the ROC, interest and property transaction gains earned by its affiliates from their investment in the ROC are business profits generated in the ROC and should be regarded as income generated from sources in the ROC (Taiwan)

October 2019

Other Areas

The Standards for Correction, Rectification or Reporting within the Required Period are amended to specifically provide that the deadline for correcting air pollution violations should be determined on a case-by-case basis (Taiwan)

October 2019

Other Areas

An act of medical negligence is constituted only when there is a specific causal relationship between a medical treatment that violates medical custom and the results (Taiwan)