ITRI joins hands with industry associations and tech giants to fight patent trolls
ITRI joins hands with industry associations and tech giants to fight patent trolls
2025-06-25
Have you ever heard of a patent troll? It’s slang for a company that obtains patent rights in order to profit purely from the licensing or litigation involved, while not doing the hard work to produce any of its own goods or services. These global trolls have been going after the hard-won R&D of Taiwanese companies. Now there’s a pushback. Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute or ITRI has joined hands with several industry associations and leading companies, to create a Taiwan edition of the LOT Industry Alliance. The resulting intellectual property protection network will help Taiwanese companies to protect each other from marauding trolls and their lawsuits.
The LOT Industry Alliance is formally inaugurated. Its aim is to protect Taiwan’s industries from intellectual property theft. According to statistics from IP Bank, starting from 2022, as many as 70% of patent litigation cases involving Taiwanese companies were initiated by patent trolls.
Hsu Chieh-li
Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association
Patent trolls are essentially not involved in manufacturing or production. They just scurry to different companies or institutions and buy their patents and use them to make profits.
In order to do battle with these trolls, ITRI has teamed up with the Chinese National Federation of Industries, the Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association and the Intellectual Property Innovation Corporation to found the Taiwan edition of the LOT Industry Alliance. They’ve invited nearly 20 technology giants, including TSMC, ASE Holdings, and Siliconware Precision Industries, that have combined revenues exceeding NT$4.4 trillion, to give support. They estimate they will gather together nearly 150,000 patients to build an intellectual property protection network.
Liao Cheng-wei
Ministry of Economic Affairs
Through this alliance, the hard-won R&D results from our Taiwanese manufacturers will not fall into the hands of Non-Practicing Entities. They can avoid dealing with these unnecessary matters and devote all their energy and spirit to R&D.
Wang Peng-yu
ITRI Technology Transfer and Law Center
For this patent, we have a special mutual authorization among ourselves. This authorization is only among ourselves. If it were to risk falling into the hands of a patent troll, a Non-Practicing Entity, we have a mechanism where we mutually have authorization.
Taiwan’s forces of industry, government and research have joined up to form a Taiwan national team for defending intellectual property. It will fight trolls, defend intellectual property rights and thus help to protect the future of Taiwan’s industries.
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防堵專利蟑螂 台版LOT產業聯盟成立"共築智財防護網"
2025-06-25
為了防堵專利蟑螂，工研院攜手工總、電電公會，及多家科技巨擘，包括台積電、日月光、矽品等近20家，重量級企業，共同成立"LOT產業聯盟"，打造"智慧財產防護網"，共享產業專利資源，更要抵禦，專利蟑螂的訴訟威脅！
LOT產業聯盟，正式成立，目的就是要防堵"專利蟑螂"威脅台灣產業，因為根據IP Bank統計，2022年開始，台灣企業捲入海外專利訴訟案件中，有高達七成是由專利蟑螂，主動發起。
[[工總常務理事暨電電公會副理事長 許介立]]
“專利蟑螂他們是自己本身，不從事製造或是生產，他們就是在到處去跟不一樣公司，或者是機構去買了這個專利之後，利用這個來去獲利”
為了打擊專利蟑螂，工研院攜手全國工業總會、電機電子工業同業公會、創智智權公司，成立"台版LOT產業聯盟"，邀請近20家科技巨擘，包括台積電、日月光、矽品等，營收合計突破4.4兆的產業大老支持，預估匯聚近15萬件有效專利，築起智慧財產防護網！
[[經濟部智慧財產局局長 廖承威]]
“透過這樣的聯盟，我們台灣廠商，辛辛苦苦所研發出來的研發成果，不會落到NPE的手上。他可以免除應付這些不必要處理的事情，把他的所有的精力，所有的精神，投入在他的研發上面”
[[工研院法務長 王鵬瑜]]
“這個專利，我們彼此之間，有一個特別的交互授權，這個授權是只有在我們專利如果輾轉，轉到那個專利蟑螂NPE手上的時候，我們就互相可以得到一個授權的機制”
產官研聯手，組台灣IP國家隊打怪，捍衛智慧財產權外，更要守住台灣產業未來。
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