Taiwan Intellectual Property Bureau launches accelerated review/deferred review of designs

Starting from September 1, 2023, the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office will begin to implement diversified examination services related to design patents, which include two regulations: accelerating examination and amending the delayed examination of design patents.

Accelerated examination is a measure taken by the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office to quickly crack down on infringing and counterfeit designs, and to assist design competition winners and new start-ups to monetize design patents. As long as one of the following three reasons is met, You can receive the review results after the relevant documents are complete:

• Third party commercial implementation.
• The appearance design has won famous domestic and foreign design awards, including: Taiwan Golden Pin Design Award, German iF Design Award, German Red Dot Design Award, Japanese Good Design Award, International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA).
• New design applications for new start-ups.

In addition, in order to comply with the considerations of commercialization and monetization of foreign designs, the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office has also simultaneously revised the regulations on deferred examination of design patents. Regardless of whether priority is claimed, the deferred examination period will be changed to one year from the filing date. .