Exploring Business Opportunities and Development on Patent Engineering in Taiwan

The Taiwanese IT companies started to emerge and gain their world-wide market shares in recent years. Those companies started to make good profits a few years back but also attracted foreign technological companies' attention claiming for infringements of the patents owned by those companies. For some reasons (such as competitions), Taiwanese companies (e.g., PC and network device manufacturers) do not have a unified way of dealing with foreign attackers. When approached by foreign claimers, these companies have been choosing to respond by their own methods and strategies. Our research targeted some major Taiwanese companies by studying and analyzing their capabilities and potentials. We also traced back to collect and review the proceeding details of how the Taiwanese companies performed in the meetings when technical assertions were held. Several observations and problems will be identified and recommendations will be drawn. It presents urgent needs to direct and foster patent engineering industry in Taiwan in order to retain its competitive advantage of accelerating forward.