Taiwan

Firm overview

Tsai, Lee & Chen Patent Attorneys & Attorneys at Law is a top-tier IP law firm based in Taipei, Taiwan, with more than 180 full-service IP professionals and lawyers.

Firms History
Founded in 1995, Tsai, Lee & Chen Patent Attorneys & Attorneys at Law boomed with the advent of Taiwan’s high-tech industrialization. The firm is a full-service IP law department that encompasses all areas of intellectual property in prosecution, portfolio management, searches, litigation, licensing negotiation, etc., with constant trust among its reputable domestic and international clientele.

Industry Sector Strengths
The firm’s patent expertise is led by 40 patent attorneys licensed in both Taiwan and China, while another 45 patent attorneys licensed in either Taiwan or China. Their technical backgrounds encompass the fields of semiconductors, consumer electronics, thin film transistor liquid crystal display technology, mechanical and electrical engineering, optics, artificial intelligence, financial technology, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, biochemistry, pharmaceuticals, business methods and information technology.

IP filing and Portfolios Managed
The firm remains a dynamic momentum to grow. Every year it files more than 8,500 patent applications globally, while 2000 new trademark filings from domestic and international clients.

Litigation and Dispute Resolution
The firm has a record of handling many landmark cases at Taiwan IP Court. The types of litigation and disputes range from trademark, patent, copyright, unfair competition to breach of contracts. The team is sophisticated in complex trademark enforcement issue, patent invalidation and infringement as well as non-infringement analysis and declaratory actions.

The firm is joined by a senior attorney sophisticated in the Company Act and the Securities and Exchange Act, along with a strategic alliance with a Chartered Accountant. This expands the horizon of the legal expertise to resolve corporate disputes relating to company merger and acquisition, including the shareholders’ meeting, company management, investment and transaction, as well as transfer of company assets and tax issues resulting from IP.

Clients
Tsai, Lee & Chen is reputable for its representation for the globally renowned international and domestic clients in electronics, software and semiconductor industries, as well as companies in pharmaceuticals and medical devices areas.

Firm overview

Over the past 60-plus years, Tai E International Patent & Law Office has matured into a major international IP law firm in Taiwan. Today we provide the highest level of quality legal service to our valuable clients from every corner of the world. With their support and trust, Tai E takes great pride in being referred to as one of the pioneering IP law firms in Taiwan. We are encouraged by the success and recognition that we have achieved so far, and our goal is to increase our efforts in order to meet the strictest professional standards and our clients’ every request in the future.

Our legal and technical professionals

We employ more than 270 professionals, including attorneys at law, patent attorneys, trademark agents, technical specialists and legal consultants, in four Taiwan offices. These professionals are experienced in providing customized solutions on a cost-effective basis. Many of them hold postgraduate degrees, including PhDs, in either legal or technical fields from top institutions in Taiwan or overseas. Their outstanding academic credentials are enhanced by active engagement in advanced professional activities, from writing IP textbooks and articles to lecturing on IP courses held by the government and academic institutions.

Every professional of the firm is proficient in at least one foreign language, including English, German and Japanese; while some of them are multilingual. Tai E’s professionals are trained in various categories of law and specialize in a wide range of technical fields, including pharmacology, chemistry, biotechnology, immunology, computers and software, electronics, semiconductors, physics, mechanical engineering and industrial design. Depending on the nature of a case, our professionals collaborate with one another to ensure that the best result is achieved for each client.

Tai E also offers a wide range of consulting and educational programs to local enterprises and is frequently consulted by government agencies. A number of our professionals have been invited to participate in public hearings regarding amendments to IP laws or regulations, such as the Trademark Act, the Patent Act and the Examination Guidelines. In addition, Tai E has played an active role in a number of professional organizations and has provided pro bono legal service at the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office.

Simple philosophies, solid commitments

We vow to provide services that exceed our clients’ expectations, catering to all requests.

Our reasonable fees guarantee the value of our services and we ensure that the best staff with the right expertise will be appointed to the task.

We believe that a stable operation benefits our clients and that this can be achieved only by recognizing the outstanding performances of all our team members. Everyone at Tai E is encouraged to take part in advanced education and to create a comfortable working environment. These simple philosophies encourage our staff to progress in their careers at Tai E and to provide an unequalled excellence of service to each and every client.

The firm has faced many challenges over the past decades, yet one thing has remained the same: our persistent pursuit of professionalism, excellence and faithful service to our clients. These are values that we have cherished since the first day of the firm. We are determined to continue to preserve and uphold these values in the future.

Notable case

Through Tai E’s endeavor on behalf of a plaintiff in civil litigation, we convinced the court that the disputed invention patent could not be proven invalid for lack of novelty and inventive step based on the prior art cited by the defendants. Moreover, we persuaded the court that the elements recited in the claims of the patent could be read on the allegedly infringing product. The lawsuit in this case lasted for more than seven years. The defendant had made persistent efforts and filed multiple appeals, however, the court's four decisions were in our favor. In the end, the court ruled that the defendants pay US$101,900 to our client as compensation for the damages caused by their infringement. 

Firm overview

Deep & Far attorneys-at-law was founded in 1992 and is dealing with all phases of laws with a focus on the practice in separate or in combination of all aspects of intellectual property rights (IPRs) including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair competition, and/or licensing, counseling, litigation and/or transaction thereof. 

Deep & Far prosecutes worldwide patent matters for local clients.  For international or foreign clients, Deep & Far prosecutes patent matters mainly in Taiwan, and significantly in China & Hong Kong, with minor representation in Macau, Singapore, Korea & Japan.

The patent attorneys and patent engineers in Deep & Far normally hold outstanding and advanced degrees and are generally graduated from the top three universities in this country.  Our prominent staffs are dedicated to provide the best quality service in IPRs in this country.  As a proof, about one half of top 100 incorporations in this country have experiences of seeking patented their techniques, but more than one fifth of the top 100 incorporations has ever used services of this firm.  Furthermore, Hi-Tech companies in the science-based industrial park located at Hsin Chu had ever played the most important role in booming the economy of this country.  About one half of them has experiences in seeking patented their techniques, and out of more than 50% of the patent-experienced companies in that park have ever entrusted their IPR works to this firm.  Certainly, we must also represent international giants, e.g. InterDigital, Gleason, Grenzebach, Beckhoff, NovaLed, BYD, Baidu, Schott Glas, MPS, Lenovo, Oppo, Cypress, Haribo, Armani, CICC, Sun Pharma, Dr. Reddy, Intercept, Torrent, Lupin, Piramal…

It is our philosophy to provide competent legal services that other firm cannot comparably provide.  The necessitated ensuing problem is how we can so provide?  Deep & Far so achieve by selecting, edifying and nurturing peoples who have the following personalities: learned in expertise, morally earnest and sincerely behaved in mind and strictly disciplined between give and take.  It is well-believed that such properties are key factors for peoples to properly and competently behave themselves. 

By the perseverance that we only do what and only perform works which enable this firm to be deep and far, Deep and Far can then equate the reality with its name.

If challenges similar to the following are desired to show our extraordinary competence, we would like to take them: (1) Sending a pending or granted patent for our comments on how we can improve its claims; (2) Sending a pending patent specification without the claims for us to draft new claims for comparison with the original claims; or (3) Sending an initial disclosure at the same time to the client’s current counsel and this firm in order to compare and find out which claim set is the better one.

Firm overview