Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs Issues Statement On Priority Claims
The European Patent Office announced earlier this month that it has received official
information from the Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
that the Ministry of Economic Affairs has issued the following announcement regarding
priority claims:
"Nationals of WTO members who apply for a patent with the Republic of
China may claim priority rights if the patent was filed under the PCT or EPC
with a designated country that is a WTO member, and that such application is
deemed valid under the law of the designated country." The convention governs the granting of European patents by the European Patent
Office (EPO) and applies throughout the 32 member states of the European Patent
Organisation. The Patent Cooperation treaty, meanwhile, is an instrument of the World Intellectual
Property Organization, and makes it possible to seek patent protection for an
invention simultaneously in each of a large number of countries by filing an
“international” patent application. Such an application may be filed by anyone who is a national or resident of
a PCT contracting State. It may generally be filed with the national patent
office of the contracting State of which the applicant is a national or resident
or, at the applicant’s option, with the International Bureau of WIPO in
Geneva. .
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