Patent Filing Requirements/Formalities:

A filing date is obtainable by submitting a foreign text with drawings and filing particulars, i.e. the name, nationality and address of the Applicant and inventor, and the priority application country, number and filing date. 

It, however, is necessary for us to submit the Chinese text together with the original of executed power of attorney, assignment, and priority document(s) to the Intellectual Property Office in four months after filing.  If  necessary, nevertheless, it will be possible to petition a two-month extension for supplementing such translation.  The inextensible term is six months from the filing date.

Since Taiwan is not a party to the Paris convention, it will be impossible to designate and enter into the national phase in Taiwan or claim the priority on the basis of the PCT corresponding application over one year from the filing date of the PCT application.  If any corresponding foreign application has been published or patented, it will be no more possible to seek patented an application here since it has lost the novelty. 

Trademark Filing Requirements/Formalities:

Since the new Amended Trademark Law was effective from November 28, 2003 here, goods categorized in different classes could be subjected to a single application if they are to be protected by the same trademark.  The only required form is the Power of Attorney, which requires neither legalization nor notarization.