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August 2020

Other Areas

It is not appropriate to conclude that medical treatment violated the duty of care solely because it was not as effective as expected (Taiwan)

August 2020

Capital Market / Securities

Since the commissions and securities transaction taxes are necessary costs for an investor's trading of stocks, it is not appropriate to elect to conclude that there is a causal relationship between such costs and an illegal speculative act and to include such costs in the damages incurred by the investor (Taiwan)

August 2020

Infrastructure Projects / Construction Laws

After the registration of the land, if an interested party discovers any registration error, although he/she may apply in writing to verify the error and approve the correction, still the correction of such registration error is permitted only in the absence of any dispute over private rights and without undermining the identity of the original registration (Taiwan)

August 2020

LTP Special Column

Opt-in? Opt-out? Precautions for Enterprises Concerning the Design of Two Different Systems (Taiwan)

August 2020

Arbitration / Litigation

If the voluntary consent to a search is withdrawn, the search should stop immediately (Taiwan)

August 2020

Patent

The term "using" under Article 22 of the Patent Act shall include producing, offering for sale, selling, using, or importing that product for the aforementioned purposes. To determine that an invention has been publicly used, its technical contends must have been made public through the aforementioned acts and not necessitated by the actual making, offering for sale, selling, using, or importing that product for the aforementioned purposes by the public. (Taiwan)