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Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and AT&T (now
Agere System Inc., formerly part of Lucent Technology,
and formerly part of AT&T) reached a broad Patent
Cross License Agreement in March 1993. Encouraged by this
agreement, many companies became AT&T¡¦s licensees.
This Agreement enabled them to utilize AT&T¡¦s patents
and enjoyed a lower royalty rate.
To bring Taiwan, Republic of China closer to the goal
of developing into an Asia-Pacific Regional Operations
Center, AT&T pledged a portion of the collected
royalties to establish a non-profit foundation. The
foundation¡¦s objectives are to promote intellectual
property management, IP awareness and more important
to build an IP related multi-purposes databases to serve
the industries in Taiwan and the world through World
Wide Web. Through these efforts, the Republic of China
hopes to become the hub of intellectual property rights-related
information center, thus to improve both economic and
trading relationships with other countries through fair
and reciprocal trade.
As the co founders of this foundation, ITRI and III
also donated fund to the foundation, and Lee& Li
Attorneys-at-Law provided legal services as part of
their pledge. The Asia Pacific Intellectual Property
Association (APIPA) thus was established on June 3,1994,
through the joint endeavors of international technological
and law professional.
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To promote the effective management of intellectual
property rights and R&D results. |
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To assist enterprises in establishing management
of intellectual property rights and commercialize their
R&D results in Taiwan. |
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To set up the APIPA intellectual property
database and provide intellectual property rights-related
information services. |
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To develop Taiwan R.O.C. into an Asia-Pacific
regional intellectual property rights information center. |
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To assist and strengthen fair economic and
trade relationships between the Taiwan, R.O.C. and other
countries for mutual benefits. |
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Board of Directors
The Board of Directors provides visions, long-term strategic
planning, polices & guidelines, and directions for APIPA.
It consists of representatives from funding agencies, AT&T
(from 1996 Lucent Technology as representative of donator;
from 2001 onwards Agere Systems Inc. became a donator), ITRI,
III , Lee & Li Attorneys-at-Law, and industries concerned
with intellectual property rights. The chairman is elected
by the Board of Directors and will be the spokesman for the
foundation.
The current chairman is Dr. Chintay Shih, ITRI Chairman,
and the board members are:
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- Benjamin Wang---General Director, Technology
Transfer & Service Center, ITRI
- Richard Thurston, Vice President and General
Counsel, Legal Organization, Taiwan Semiconductor
Manufacturing Company Ltd.
- Biing-Seng Wu---Executive Vice President, Chi Mei
Corporation
- Jyh-Sheng Ke---President, Institute for
Information Industry
- Jonney Shih--Chairman,ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
- Paul S. P. Hsu---Chairman, PHYCOS International
Co., Ltd
- Yeou-Geng Hsu---President,Chi Lin Technology Co.,
Ltd.
- Chi-Ming Liang---Secretary General, National
Health Research Institutes
- David W. J. Chen---President, Taiwan Electrical
and Electronic Manufacturers' Association
- Paul Chang Bin Liu---Director, Graduate Institute
of Intellectual Property National Chengchi
University
- Ta-Chung Chiang---Partner & Senior Counselor,
Lee & Li Attorneys-at-Law
- Ming-Kai Tsai---Chairman, MediaTek Inc.
- Thomas Q. T. Tsai---Senior Partner, Tsai, Lee
& Chen Patent Attorneys and Attorneys-at-Law
- Fang-Chen, Luo---VP& CTO, Au Optronics Corp.
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Advisory Committee
The Advisory Committee is organized by representatives from
government officials, intellectual property professionals, and
other social groups to provide guidance for APIPA¡¦s activities. |
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Managing Director
The managing director is responsible for implementing decisions
of the Board and to supervise the operations of APIPA. The current
Managing Director is Steven Lai.
Core Team
The Core Team assists the Managing Director in carrying out
intellectual property rights plans, promoting information
services, and conducting training. The current members are:
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- Alex Fan---Director, IP Legal Affairs Div., Technology Transfer & Service Center, ITRI
- Irving Hao-Chun, Tai --- General Director, Science & Technology Law Center, III
- Jolene wang---CEO, Lexcel Partners IP Co., Ltd.
- Shirley Louie---Vice Chairman, Asia-Pacific Technology & Intellectual Property Service Inc.
- Leah Lo---Chief, Technology Transfer Office, National Health Research Institutes
- Ruth Huan-Yu, Fang---Senior Counselor, Lee & Li Attorneys-at-Law
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Administration
Office
This office is responsible for the administrative operations,
including arranging meetings for the Board of Directors, the
Advisory Committee and the Core Team. In addition, it facilitates
the programs of the Intellectual Property Thesis Scholarships,
and the Award for Professionals for Overseas Training &
Study.
Financial Office
This office is responsible for financial, accounting, and
expenditure administration.
Database Operation Office
This office is responsible for engineering, designing, set-up,
developing, and maintaining the APIPA intellectual property
database.
Planning and Marketing Office
This office promotes activities related to intellectual property
rights, including conference, promotions, training programs,
exchange visits with China and associating colleges to cultivate
IP specialists, etc. Setting up Intellectual Property Information
Web provides information related to IP activities, Professional
Forum and Q&A. And the office is also devoted to engage
in research of IP related policies.
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| 1.Major Accomplishments
in Supporting Intellectual Property (IP) Activities |
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From May 24 to 25,1995, APIPA teamed up
with the National Bureau of Standards (now Intellectual
Property Office), the Board of Foreign Trade, ITRI, III,
the Chinese National Federation of Industries, the Commercial
Times, Lee & Li Attorneys-at-Law, AT&T, and the
Asia-Pacific Legal Institute to hold the ¡§Conference of
IPR Issues for Industrial Development into the Next Century.¡¨
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In May 1995, APIPA co-sponsored the Asia-Pacific
Legal Institutes¡¦ ¡§Panel on Intellectual Property Protection
conference.¡¨ |
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From 1995 to 1998, APIPA co-sponsored ITRI¡¦s
annual ¡§Intellectual Property Rights Week.¡¨ |
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On November 15,1995, APIPA Teamed up with
Academia Sinica, National Taiwan University, and Lee &
Li Attorneys-at-Law to hold a ¡§Symposium of Policy and
Law Impacts on Science and Technology Development Conference.¡¨ |
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In 1996, APIPA sponsored the i EXCHANGE
Co. from the USA to film a video about intellectual property
rights. |
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From 1997 to 1999, APIPA co-sponsored National
Chiao Tung University¡¦s ¡§Intellectual Property Conference.¡¨
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In 1997 and 1998, APIPA co-sponsored the
Time Fund¡¦s ¡§New Information World Conference.¡¨ |
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From March 9 to 10, 1998, APIPA teamed up
with Lee & Li and Asia-Pacific Technology & Intellectual
Property Service, Inc. for the ¡§1998 Technology Trade
Symposium.¡¨ |
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From 1999 to 2000, APIPA teamed up with
National Cheng-chi University and ITRI to engage in the
Intellectual Property Office¡¦s ¡§Assisting Industries to
Establish Intellectual Property Management¡¨ Project, holding
IP Protection Conference. |
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On May 5,1999, APIPA co-sponsored the Science
Technology Law Center of III to hold the ¡§National Scientific
Technology Law Forum: Impact and Response-the Creative
Application of Intellectual Property in Industries.¡¨ |
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In December 1999, APIPA teamed up with CSMOT
in Kaohsiung National Sun Yat-Sen University to hold ¡§Operation
across century ¡V Intellectual Property Rights Management
Conference.¡¨ |
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From October 30 to November 8, 2000, APIPA
co-sponsored AIT, ROC-USA Business Council and Judicature
Train Place¡¦s ¡§ The Intellectual Property Enforcement
Program for Taiwan Judges and Prosecutors.¡¨ |
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From November 23 to 24, 2000, APIPA co-sponsored
National Chiao Tung University¡¦s ¡§2000 Technology Law
conference.¡¨ |
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In 1999 and 2000,APIPA finished ITRI¡¦s two
special research projects ¡§The responses to National supported
research results opening to empowerment¡¨ and ¡§The analysis
of the structures of Internal and Overseas Research for
Technology Transfer and Service Operations.¡¨ |
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From November 15 to 16, 2001, APIPA co-sponsored
National Chiao Tung University¡¦s ¡§2001 Technology Law
conference.¡¨ |
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in Patent Analysis (Patent Mapping) and Applications |
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From January to December 1999, APIPA teamed
up with ITRI to engaged in the National Science Council¡¦s
¡§Realizing Industries and Universities Cooperation-Establishing
the Mechanism of Intellectual Property Rights Management
and Patent Applications¡¨ to train Patent Mapping and IP
specialists. |
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Basic training classes: In 2000, APIPA engaged
in the National Science Council¡¦s ¡§The Personnel Training
program integrated Information, Communication, and Consumer
Electron¡¦s Patent mapping and applications.¡¨ |
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Advanced training classes: In November 2000,
APIPA set up the advanced training class to train specific
fields talents to enable them to be capable of performing
Patent Mapping and its applications. APIPA selected 3C
products¡¦ ¡§Automatic Speech Recognition, ASR¡¨ as the advanced
training classes¡¦ topic. |
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3.Providing Chinese Patent Database Services |
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modifying its Intellectual Property Database in Chinese to reflect
more of its own characteristics. The current database offers
services including the ¡§ROC Gazette Database¡¨ and the ¡§Mainland
China Gazette Index Database¡¨ through the web site http://www.apipa.org.tw.
APIPA has been granted to be the exclusive licensee of State
Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of P.R.C. in Taiwan, and
we will complete construction of "Mirror Site",
the patent database of PRC, on APIPA from May 2002. Moreover,
being an exclusive agent for selling SIPO's CDs and related-publications,
APIPA expands its services on providing P.R.C. patent information.
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4.Promoting the Cooperation & Interaction between Taiwan
and Mainland China in IP Practices |
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Exchange Visits Activities
To promote IP personnel Cross-Strait exchange visits:
the Mainland China experts came to Taiwan in January
and December, 2001. In April 2001, APIPA invited professionals
that devote themselves to IP and judges to visit the
Mainland China.
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Inter-exchanging Conferences |
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On November 6, 1996, during the second meeting
of the First Advisory Committee, APIPA invited professionals
from Mainland China who were then visiting Taiwan to participate
in a conference on ¡§How Both Sides Across the Taiwan Strait
should Cooperated to Promote Technology Information and
The exchange of Intellectual Property Rights Information.¡¨
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From October 31 to November 3, 1999, APIPA
teamed up with Institute of China IP Studies, Peking University
IP Teaching and Research Center, and National Cheng-chi
University Center for Technology Policy and Law (CTPL)
in Peking to hold ¡§ The Third Intellectual Property University
Interchanging conference.¡¨ |
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From January 3 to 13, 2001, APIPA invited
the Mainland China central authorities and local IP-related
personnel to form a visiting party called ¡§ Technology
Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights Investigation
Party.¡¨ In addition, on January 11, APIPA held a ¡§ The
Mainland China Intellectual Property Rights Law and Executed
Present Situation Project Report¡¨ in Taipei. |
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From December 10 to 19, 2001, APIPA invited
the Mainland China IP-related personnel again to compose
¡§High and New Technology Industries and Intellectual Property
Rights Protection Practice Conference¡¨ to Taiwan. In addition,
on December 14, APIPA held a ¡§ The Mainland China High-Tech
Industries and IP Protection Practice Conference¡¨ in Chia-Yi
National Chung Cheng University. |
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5.Providing Chinese IP Information Website Services |
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2000, APIPA set up ¡§ Intellectual Property Rights Information
Website¡¨.
Its goal is to develop a portal site to offer share of Intellectual
Property Information and services. The website includes IP activities,
searching IP services, Law databases, professional forums and
patent analysis information etc. In addition, APIPA also provided
information in laws, and activities related to intellectual
property rights through http://www.apipa.org.tw/
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6.Sponsoring Graduate Student Theses on IP related Subjects |
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on intellectual property rights is one of APIPA¡¦s objectives,
an Intellectual Property Thesis Scholarship has been offered
since 1995 to encourage graduate student to write theses related
to intellectual property rights. Scholars and the Core team
serve as judges for granting this scholarship.
Scholarship winners now are over 40 students from National
Taiwan University, National Chengchi University, National
Chiao Tung University, National Sun Yat-Sen University, National
Central Police University, National Dong Hwa University, National
Yunlin University, Soochow University ,Yuan Ze University
and National University of Education.
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for Overseas Training and Study |
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APIPA Awarded many professionals to attend ¡§Professionals for
Overseas Training & Study.¡¨ Thirty-one people were selected
as candidates whom were engaged in research on intellectual
property rights and scientific technology. They had received
full or partial sponsorship and were selected from Intellectual
Property Office, Committee of Administrative Appeal of MOEA,
Legislative Yuan, Taichung District Court, ITRI, III, Commercial
Times, and Winbond Electronics Corp, Ltd. |
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To promote intellectual property-related
operations in scientific technology as major objective,
and legal and management matters as secondary. |
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To complete the Chinese-language intellectual
property databases on Internet and strengthen our ability
to provide on-line services. |
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To incorporate scholarly research resources
and to facilitate professional training programs in patent
analyses. |
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To expand the utilization of patent analytic
information to help various disciplines to plan their
strategy in licensing new technology or in their R&D
development. |
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To enhance the interaction of Intellectual
Property Rights Information Cross-Strait and the foundation
of cooperation mechanism between P.R.China and Taiwan
R.O.C. |
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To help create a favorable environment for
development of the technological service industry. |
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To continue promoting other activities related
to intellectual property rights awareness. |
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The
Chinese Hsinchu APIPA is located at:
3F.,Bldg, 53, 195
Sec. 4, Chung Hsing Rd., Chutung, Hsinchu, Taiwan 310, R.O.C
Tel ¡G886-3-5918785
Fax¡G886-3-5833325
E-mail¡G services@apipa.org.tw
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