Bulletin
LEE & LI Bulletin - March 2016
Bulletin
Copyright Infringement of Circuit Layouts
The Intellectual Property Court delivered court judgment No. 104-Min-Zhu-Su-19 on January 6, 2016 for a case regarding copyright infringement of circuit layouts. In this judgment, the Intellectual Property Court held that in investigating whether the circuit layout of an actual product constitutes copyright infringement, the comparison method used for pictorial and graphical works should be employed to determine whether the defendant had committed acts of "reproducing" the plaintiff's circuit diagram and layout. ... MoreTaiwan Patent Practices
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