The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) has proposed a draft amendment to the Trademark Act, which has been passed by the Executive Yuan and submitted to Taiwan’s Congress for deliberation. Once it is passed into law, opposition and invalidation will be consolidated into a single procedure. This means that the opposition system will be abolished and replaced by invalidation proceedings. However, there will be other ways to prevent trademark squatting when the amendment comes into force.
Currently, Taiwan has a post-registration opposition system. When a trademark application is approved for registration, it undergoes a three-month opposition period following publication. If no opposition is filed during this time, the registration is maintained and subject to potential invalidation, typically within five years.
According to TIPO’s Annual Report 2022, which was published on 30 June 2023, the statistics on trademark oppositions and invalidations are as follows. Read more