【Intellectual Property Management Plan】
To enhance the Company's innovation capability and brand value in line with its short-, medium- and long-term business plans, to ensure that the operations of the Company and its subsidiaries comply with intellectual-property laws and regulations, to properly protect the intellectual property its operations require, and to avoid infringing the intellectual-property rights of others, the Company's intellectual property management plan is as follows:
1. Trademark management
- Continue to file trademark registrations in advance in the regions where the Company and its subsidiaries market and provide products and services, so as to build out the trademark portfolio, and file oppositions against suspect marks, ensuring the Company's products are not confused in the market and its competitive position remains stable.
- Keep abreast of trademark regulations in Taiwan and overseas markets.
- Maintain an inventory of registered trademarks and keep them in force.
- Actively protect the trademark rights of the Company and its subsidiaries in each marketing and service region, combat bad-faith free-riding on the Company's trademarks or corporate name, and stop infringement by others, so as to prevent harm to the Company's trademark rights and to build and maintain its brand value.
- Continue to manage and maintain trademarks internally in accordance with the trademark management regulations.
2. Patent management
- Continuously optimize the Company's patent portfolio through patent maintenance.
- Continuously raise employees' patent awareness and skills through patent training courses.
- Maintain an inventory of registered patents, review it regularly, and keep the patents in force.
- Keep abreast of patent regulations in Taiwan and overseas markets.
- Continue to manage and maintain patents internally in accordance with the patent management regulations.
3. Trade-secret management
- Ensure that trade secrets such as the Company's technical innovations and R&D are strictly protected through encryption, access control, inventory and tracking of confidential information.
- To prevent losses from trade-secret leaks, continuously strengthen employee training, requiring employees to strictly protect the Company's trade secrets both during and after their employment, and not to use, disclose or infringe the trade secrets of others.
- Provide a clear basis for managing confidential information through the confidential-information control and reward-and-discipline regulations, which also prescribe penalties for trade-secret leaks.
- Include confidentiality clauses in the Company's external contracts to reduce the risk of trade-secret leakage.
Implementation status
The Company implements the intellectual property management plan and reports the results to the board of directors. As of December 31, 2025, the Company and its subsidiaries held 23 trademarks and 110 patents.