On June 26, 2010, Taiwan and China entered into a Cross-Strait Agreement on Intellectual Property Rights Cooperation and Protection (Cross-Strait IP Agreement). This Cross-Strait IP Agreement was renowned for China’s admission of a right of priority of Taiwanese patent applications or...

The molecular weight of a polymer is not just a number for a single molecule. In fact, molecular weight measurement is based on a large volume of molecules of the same polymer. Due to the non-uniformity of molecular weights, there are several methods to measure an “average molecular weight”...

In 2011, Super 7, a Taiwan-based girl group, was created and was intended to copy Girls' Generation. Super 7's first single features the outfit that copies Girls' Generation's outfit for “Hoot.” Super 7's album also features a title of “少女時代.” This paper analyzes how Super 7...

On February 20, 2014, the Taiwan Intellectual Property Court (“TIPC”) issued its first adult video copyright case, Taiwan Intellectual Property Court Criminal Judgment 101 Xing-Zhi-Shang-Yi-Zi No. 74 (2012). It held that an adult video work is copyright-eligible under the Taiwan Copyright...

This article explains why a popular music songwriter could easily infringe some old pop songs. The infringement theory is based on “subconscious copying”. This thought may be right in the past, but in the era of Internet, the facts of subconscious copying may be deemed to be true in many...

This article analyzes a Federal Circuit decision from 2015, Internet Patents Corp. v. Active Network, Inc., 790 F.3d 1343 (Fed. Cir. 2015), holding that the claims for a method, computer system, or computer-readable storage medium, for providing an intelligent user interface to an online...