Terry Gou Calls for Cross-Strait Patent Cooperation

Taiwanese media reported recently that TSMC Chairman Zhang Zhongmou stated in an interview that Taiwan’s intellectual property “deficit” was US$5 billion, which seriously hampered innovation; and Hon Hai Chairman Terry Gou commented that the mainland should be with Taiwan. Create a patent alliance.

Gou Ming stated that Hon Hai is currently ranked ninth in the number of patent applications filed in the United States. It spends as much as 1 billion yuan each year on patent applications, and then counts R&D expenses, with the fewest one billion yuan. This is why Hon Hai protects itself and seldom defendants. But if we want to go further, we must combine the strength of the Taiwan authorities. The annual science and technology budget prepared by the authorities may only set the direction of development, and private companies may apply for enforcement. Only private companies can understand what is a useful patent.

Gou Ting acknowledged Zhang Zhongmou’s views on intellectual property landmines that hinder Taiwan’s innovation. He said that the European and American manufacturers have formed a global alliance in the distribution of global patent rights. At present, the world’s three largest patent companies are Sony Ericsson, Siemens, Motorola, and Qualcomm’s global patent core at the core of wireless communications.

Gou pointed out that Taiwan’s efforts to research and develop patents can, arguably, be exported to overseas countries to recover the cost of R&D. However, the current situation is like a “gold right fault”. Taiwanese businessmen continue to pay premiums to the upstream and they continue to spend money on research and development. .

Since Taiwan cannot participate in the European and American patent alliances, Gou believes that it can only cooperate with the mainland to develop the patent core alliance in the Greater China market. However, the two sides of the strait should speed up amendments to the law, strengthen the protection of "intellectual property rights," and propose solutions to "private-to-private" infringement disputes.