Patents/ Trademarks/ Copyright/ Corporate/ Commercial Law
Patents
Our Patent Department is staffed by more than sixty professionals and engineering specialist, roughly divided into four groups: the Electronics Group, Mechanical Group, Chemistry Group, and Biotechnology Group. While most staff members hold advanced degrees, the core of the Patent Department are qualified patent agents with experience as practicing engineers or former patent examiners at the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO).
Our staff has accumulated abundant experience dealing with a broad range of patent-rights affairs involving administrative and technical issues related to patentability for both utility inventions and industrial design applications. In addition to the daily practice of claims drafting and filing, our experts promptly respond to client requirements for service in patent searches and infringement analyses.
Clients rely on our staff to render expert opinions on cases handled with GTCL by the courts. In this Department, we stress the correlation between intellectual property protection and the particular goals and interests of our clients. We work to assist our clients in achieving their targets by tailoring client-specific strategies. Applying our legal and technical expertise, we devise winning strategies for our clients. We are proud of our ability to enlist the impeccable expertise of additional patent attorneys and industrial engineers from other areas within GTCL. These experts cooperate whenever interdisciplinary issues arise.
All our efforts in the Trademark Department focus on safeguarding the business reputation and product integrity created and developed by the clients.
To guarantee maximum effectiveness, the department also cooperates and coordinates with professionals and specialists from inside and outside GTCL to provide trademark-related services such as trademark searches, prosecution for registration, appeals, oppositions, invalidation and revocation procedures, and relevant legal services involving investigation, infringement assessment, coordination of police raids and full-scale litigation.
This Department represents both international clients for in-bound trademark cases and domestic clients for out-bound cases. With professional experience of more than 40 years, we realize clients’ trademarks from regional marketing to global portfolio.
For years our Trademark Department has been recognized as a top-level (or first-tier) firm among peers in Taiwan for professional services of quality according to quite a few international renowned IP media and agencies.
It will be our great honor to represent you/your clients in protecting their trademarks in Taiwan. If we could be of any assistance for trademark matters in Taiwan, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Our Trademark Department also provides copyright-related services such as consultation on copyright protection, review of copyright work, prosecution for registration, maintenance, management, recordal of copyright change, assignment and license, and dispute resolution. Our professional experience of more than 40 years enables us to counsel our clients effectively and protect their copyright comprehensively.