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November 2020

The "interested parties" who may file an invalidation on the ground that the patentee of a utility model patent is not the person entitled to file the application include the actual inventors, creators or whose assignees or successors or parties with a relationship of employment or commissioned research and development (Taiwan)

September 2020

An invention cannot be patented if it can be easily accomplished by a person having ordinary skill in the art of the invention based on the prior art prior to the application (Taiwan)

August 2020

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)

June 2020

Whether the requirement for "identical invention" under Article 28 of the Patent Law is met should be determined based on whether the invention set forth in the patent application claims is disclosed in the specification, patent application claims or drawings of the counterpart serving as the basis for claiming the right of priority (Taiwan)

April 2020

The so-called "availability to the public" concerning prior art during the examination of inventive steps means that a prior art reference has been disclosed with its technical details in such a state that they become available to the public, and it is not required that the technical details have actually been known to the public (Taiwan)

March 2020

The inventive steps of a patent should be examined based on the technical contents disclosed in its citation documents (Taiwan)