Intellectual Property Management
Intellectual Property Management Plan
In order to protect R&D resources, maintain innovation momentum, strengthen competitive strength, increase corporate profits, achieve operational goals and ensure sustainable operations, the Company continues to promote the intellectual property management. The Company values the operation of intellectual property greatly and appoints the personnel dedicated to intellectual property management. Whenever the R&D team proposes a new technical idea or inspiration, upon preliminary experiments and trial production to confirm the feasibility of such idea or inspiration, the personnel responsible for intellectual property will investigate the technology overview through patent search and confirm the two major indicators, namely Freedom to Operate (the technology does not involve any mine patent, and there is no risk over working the same) and Patentability (no previous discovery is available to the technology, and the probability that the patent application is approved is high).
The “R&D Cycle – Acquisition, Maintenance and Application of Intellectual Property” established by the Company expressly formulates the related procedures to ensure that the Company has sought sufficient information and preparation for intellectual property management as following:
- Patent application procedure
- Patent search procedure
- Patent technology review procedure
- Patent specification preparation and application stage
- Official review stage
- Patent-related rights and patent right maintenance procedure
- Ownership of patent-related rights
- Maintenance of granted patents
- Business secrets
- Patent monitoring
- Freedom to Operate
- Maintenance of intellectual property summary table and patent specification database
- Patent inventory
- Authority of access to intellectual property data online
In addition to said procedures, the Company will also invite the management and R&D personnel to attend the patent review meetings to discuss and make decision on the patent applications filed by the Company to ensure the timeliness and necessity of the Company’s patent applications.
Implementation Status
The Company has convened a total of 2 patent review meetings and a total of 6 patent applications were approved in 2025. Our patent achievements as of 2025 are as follows：
- Patent portfolio: 221 cases
- Patent family: 54 cases
- Valid patent: 109 cases
The Company has formulated the "2025 Intellectual Property Management Report" and reported it to the Board of Directors on March 12, 2026. The details are as follows:
- Strengthening Intellectual Property Management Mechanisms: Completed patent inventory reviews and conducted regular assessments of the management status of patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. The Company continuously updates patent application tracking and related registers, and enhances the protection of confidential information through access control, security management, and document control mechanisms. Relevant management systems are also continuously refined in line with operational needs.
- Enhancing Employees’ Awareness of Intellectual Property Protection: Conducted “Securities Exchange Act and Trade Secrets Protection: Legal and Practical Training” to strengthen employees’ awareness of trade secret protection and regulatory compliance. A total of 66 participants completed the training during the year.
- Promoting Intellectual Property Strategy and Analysis: Continuously collects and analyzes industry technologies and trademark strategies as references for R&D and IP planning. In 2025, the Company completed 19 patent applications, strengthening core technology protection and enhancing competitive advantages.