• Evaluate the recent patent and trademark cases in Taiwan
• Analysis the impact of update IP regulations and legislation on corporations– what are the advantages and disadvantages
• Discussing how to make full use of the improved environment for IRP protection in Taiwan

Ms. May Lee, Secretary General, Taiwan Intellectual Property Office

• Promoting the quality and quantity of patents and ensuring the highest quality in technology patents.
• Understanding the formation of companies’ patent strategies to focus on ensuring the overall success of application

Winston Hsu, General Manager, NAIP

• Importance of IP Protection in Taiwan
• Litigation Strategy
• Invalidation Skills

H. Henry Chang; Stacey Lee; Frank Sung, Baker & McKenzie

• Taiwan IP court
• US Litigation
• US Patent Perspective

Jason Chen; Marcus J. Woo; Edison T. Lin, Jones Day

• IP value-added Profile
• Open Innovation Management
• Value-added intellectual property strategy
• IP value-added model

Benjamin Wang, General Director of Technology Transfer and Service Centre, Industrial Technology Research Institute

• Enterprises in China: Their patent management strategy
• China's high-tech feel that the new approach
• Policy of approval of China's patent-funded projects
• Efficient ways to enhance patent applications
• Jian-li core technology patent portfolio
• Product development and management of the patent application process
  

Anita Liang, IPR Director, Inventec Appliances Ltd

• Patent strategy at the right-obtaining stage—aggressive patents and defensive patents
• Patent search and investigation—the best free database, and the reliable approach for a saver search
• The evaluation of the validity of a patent, the evaluation of a market value of a patent, the appraisal of licensing royalty and tips of invalidation procedures
• Pioneer invention, improvement invention and circumventing designs
• The productive mode to spark innovation and new ideas by linking the factory to the IP professionals
• Set up a stronger patent strategy by charting navigable Patent net and patent map
• Patent strategy and its return—an overlook on the patents issued to Taiwanese corporations and the conceived extra room for more intensive R&D investment and aggressive IP strategy.
  

J. K. Lin; Nelson Yu, TIPLO Attorneys-at-Law

• The intricate balance between Innovation upholding policy and maintenance of trade secrets - the proprietary issue of the patent filing right and patent right in the corporation; practical arrangement of corporation regulation and innovation –perking policy
• Insight on the practical effect of confidentiality agreement and non-competition covenant
• The general flow of the patent enforcement procedure—from evidence collecting, infringement assessment, warning, preliminary injunction, filing of suit, conclusion of settlement to licensing agreement;
  
• The negotiation at the pre-trial stage of a patent enforcement case—how to reach better results with effective evidence and tactical warning approaches;
  
• Securing the best experts’ opinion—who to ask for and how to render the best results
  
• The nitty-gritty of the warning letter
  
• Contributory infringement and relevant issues of evidentiary techniques, shifting of the burden of proof, plus the effectiveness of evidence securing procedures
  
• The effectiveness of preliminary injunction—the latest development based on case study and legal analysis
  

H. G. Chen, TIPLO Attorneys-at-Law

• Tailor-made IP construction system tying up with corporate developing
• Strategy and industrial competition
• IP team construction – how to build up the team and how best to manage them
• Patent-dominating IPR protection system in high-tech industry: how to integrate with all business functions eg R&D and marketing

Mr. Thomas J.Colson, Esq., President/CEO, IP.com

• A quick look at economics
  
• Some ancient history
  
• Taiwan’s emergence as an IP Center
  
• Taiwan as a market
  
• Recent trends in Taiwan’s trademark environment

John Eastwood, Wenfei Attorneys-at-law

• Trademark Enforcement Challenges
• Trademark Enforcement and Border Control
• Case Study of Trademark Infringement in Taiwan

David Yang; Joy Pan; Grace Shao, Baker & McKenzie

• Outstanding recent reforms in Trademark legislation and practice in Taiwan, with illustration of some intriguing cases and introduction of diversified types of registrable trademarks in Taiwan;
  
• Trademark application and examination practice in Taiwan----and the pre-filing sorting and search business
  
• Insight of The latest Taiwanese official ‘groupings of similar goods and services pertaining trademark registration’
  
• Keys to trademark registration and use strategy----plus the current update on relevant legal requirement and the official practice
• Case analysis on Trademark disputes----Trademark Opposition, Trademark Invalidation and Trademark Revocation
  
• Trademark Transfer, Letter of Consent, Appraisal of Royalty Rate and illustration of pertinent cases----with a focus on good-faith and bad-faith unfair registration by third party.
  

Johnny Yang; C. C. Chen, TIPLO Attorneys-at-Law

• Tools for constructing patent applications efficiently, as well as patent litigation tools that help you zero in on potential patent issues and seek ROI
• Develop internally consistent, concise, and well-tailored patent applications, as well as analyze and dissect online issued patents

Michiel De Bruijn, Global IP Solutions team, LexisNexis AsiaPacific

• The tension between antitrust & patent law
  
• Antitrust & patent agreements
  
• Antitrust & the enforcement of patent rights
  
• Remedies in patent antitrust cases

Glenn W. Rhodes, Partner, Intellectual Property Patent Litigation, Howrey

• Keep competitive and advanced: preventing the patents from dropping behind of the researchers and manufacturers
• Overcoming the main challenges – how to avoid the risks in patent protection
• Patent protection with good actualization of the patent strategy

Dr. Richard L. Thurston, Vice President and General Counsel, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

• An evolving proposition
• The changing IP landscape
• Overview of IBM IP strategy and goals

Pauline Liu, Counsel, IP Law, IBM Taiwan Corporation