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Quarterly Issue Jun 2012 NO.02 |
LATEST LEGAL NEWS |
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TAIWAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE RELEASES THE DRAFT AMENDMENT OF "TRADE SECRET ACT" |
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The "Trade Secret Act" has been implemented for 15 years. However, it is never amended since it was passed and implemented on Jan. 17, 1996 in Taiwan. Protecting the trade secret of industries, maintaining the ethic of industry´s competing order, and balancing the public interest are the primary purposes to enact this Act. Recently, some of technology industries have encountered the problem that the confidential information was disclosed or used by the employees and the agents for outside company or personal gain....[more] |
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| THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (DOH) MADE ADVANCE ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DRAFTS OF IRB REGULATIONS OF THE HUMAN SUBJECT RESEARCH ACT | ||
By the authorization of the Human Subject Research Act (the Act) promulgated on December 28, 2011, the Department of Health (DOH) made advance announcements of draft regulations and guidelines concerning the establishment of Institutional review board (IRB) and review exemptions under certain situations....[more] | ||
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| R.O.C. GOVERNMENT LAUNCHED THE ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS TO PROMOTE R&D OF ESSENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES OF SMART METERS | ||
In order to develop Energy ICT industry and to fulfill the goal of energy saving and energy efficiency, the Executive Yuan approved "Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Program" at June 23, 2012, officially starting AMI deployment plans in Taiwan. Department of Industrial Technology (DoIT) of Ministry of Economic Affairs(MOEA) invested numbers of technology R & D projects, including but not limited to large-scale meter reading communication platform , meter reading network management platform , meter reading communication network technology and complex environmental sensor network deployment technology to promote this program....[more] | ||
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| R.O.C. GOVERNMENT AMENDED THE REGULATIONS OF GREEN BUILDINGS TO FURTHER PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF "INTELLIGENT GREEN BUILDINGS" | ||
The Executive Yuan held the SRB Meeting "Development of the Internet of Things Industry" on October 28, 2011 and announced the vision of constructing Taiwan to be the technology island of "Internet of Things" before 2016. Due to the feature of highly integration, which could be the chance of Taiwan to upgrade and transit the ICT industry. The government will help industry to establish domestic demonstration and application field and promote the output of international applied field in the future....[more] |
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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS |
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| CHINESE REACH HAS PUT INTO SHAPE, HOW ABOUT TAIWAN REACH? - A PERSPECTIVE OF CHINESE MEASURES ON ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF NEW CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES | ||
Abstract: Taiwan food industry has been struck by the government agency´s disclosure that certain unfaithful manufacturers have mixed toxic chemicals into the food additives for the past 30 years, and the chemicals may seriously threaten public health....[more] |
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| ANALYSIS ON KOREA COMPLEMENTARY MEASURES OF TECHNOLOGY APPRAISAL | ||
Abstract: With the coming of the knowledge-based economy era, intellectual properties have become the index of enterprise competence. Not only different countries have begun to develop and protect their intellectual property rights (IPRs) but also enterprises from different nations have also started to finance or transition of IPRs. Doing so, they hope to completely bring out the economic benefits of IPRs. However, the prerequisite to circulation and application of IPRs is to decide the value of IPRs....[more] | ||
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