To assist domestic and foreign market participants and people from different sectors in further understanding the latest development of trademark-related laws and judicial opinions, TIPO has selected classic judgements made by Intellectual Property and Commercial Court in the past 5 years to accomplish 7 case briefs and their English translations. 

The content of these case briefs contains many important issues in the field of trademark, including how to determine the scope of goods in connection with which the trademark has been put to genuine use, the territorial limitation on genuine use of the trademark, the determination of likelihood of confusion between trademarks with low degree of similarity, whether the protective scope varies among well-known trademarks due to different levels of fame, the determination of the parody defense related to trademark infringement, keyword advertising and the determination of trademark infringement, the application of the defense of trademark exhaustion, etc., and it is believed that these case briefs can be very beneficial for those interested to have more complete understanding of trademark-related laws and practices in Taiwan.

Source : TIPO