Intellectual Property Management Plan

To encourage research and innovation and protect proprietary key technologies, the company aligns its operational objectives with research and development resources to formulate intellectual property strategies. This approach reduces operational risks and enhances corporate competitiveness.

 

The company’s intellectual property strategy is built on strengthening employees’ awareness of intellectual property rights, analyzing industry trends, accumulating independent research and development capabilities, extracting high-quality proposals, and maintaining and utilizing intellectual property rights after acquisition. This strategy is implemented through the legal and R&D departments responsible for IP management, collaboration with domestic and international intellectual property firms, and internal advocacy and education. It ensures the quality of patents and trademarks while safeguarding the results of proprietary research and design, solidifying competitive advantages, and flexibly leveraging intellectual property rights to effectively counter frivolous IP lawsuits.

  1. Conduct trademark and patent searches and application layouts based on research and development strategies and directions.
  2. Collaborate with patent firms to review the usage of granted patents and their relevance to products, assessing the necessity of continued maintenance.
  3. Partner with trademark firms to establish a trademark management platform, regularly reviewing trademark usage and validity periods on a monthly basis to maintain existing trademarks.

 

The company has established trade secret management guidelines to ensure employees comply with confidentiality obligations. For information security, regulations regarding the use of computer equipment networks and information security management measures have been implemented to protect personnel data privacy and customer rights. Regularly scheduled legal and information knowledge promotions enhance employees’ awareness of protecting the company’s confidential information and their professional understanding of compliance, reducing the risk of improper information leakage.

  1. Strengthen the company’s confidentiality requirements and regulations.
  2. Establish a robust information security environment.
  3. Regularly promote laws and information-related knowledge.

 

The company presented intellectual property-related matters to the 17th Board of Directors’ 4th Meeting for the fiscal year 113 (November 12, 2024). The company has actively promoted the intellectual property management plan, with the primary actions taken since 2022 outlined as follows:

  1. Fully track recent patent approvals within the industry to understand market development trends.
  2. Align patents with product orientation by listing relevant technologies and understanding the industry landscape.
  3. Conduct patent searches and application layouts based on R&D strategies and directions.
  4. The R&D department handles patent rights protection, document preservation, and cataloging.
  5. The legal department manages domestic and international trademark inventory, maintenance, renewal, and applications in response to trademark usage.
  6. To continuously strengthen confidentiality requirements, the company updated relevant clauses in the workplace regulations and reviewed employee confidentiality and non-compete agreements, as well as external NDA confidentiality agreements, ensuring proper agreements are signed for cases involving company confidential information and collaborations.

Intellectual Property Achievements

  1. As of October 31, 2024, the company holds a total of 32 patents domestically and internationally, including 3 patents pending and 29 granted patents.
  2. As of October 31, 2024, the company holds a total of 301 trademarks domestically and internationally, including 41 trademarks pending and 260 granted trademarks.