Taiwan’s IP Experts

31 July 2022

Taiwan boasts a strong legal market, thanks in part to its leading role in semiconductor and other high-tech manufacturing. The legal market in Taipei – and, indeed, elsewhere around Taiwan – is robust and competitive, giving it outsize strength for a jurisdiction with a working age population of just 16.55 million people.

Top brands around the world rely on companies in Taiwan for their technology needs – and the people of Taiwan understand just how crucial suppliers in Taiwan are for the rest of the world. In a survey aimed at consumers in Taiwan, TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) was named as Taiwan’s strongest brand as part of Campaign Asia-Pacific’s Asia Top 100 Brands research.

“It’s interesting how high a B2B supplier like TSMC has risen in a consumer survey, yet the global crisis over chip supplies after the pandemic has put the brand in the spotlight,” Minnie Wang wrote for Campaign.

The Economist reported in 2021 that TSMC controls a staggering amount of the global computer chip market. “It controls 84 percent of the market for chips with the smallest, most efficient circuits on which the products and services of the world’s biggest technology brands, from Apple in America to Alibaba in China, rely. As demand for the most sophisticated chips surges thanks to the expansion of fast communication networks and cloud computing, TSMC is pouring vast additional sums of money into expanding its dominance of the cutting edge,” the magazine reported.

Despite breakthrough in the semiconductor manufacturing business in mainland China, where China’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) has developed a 7nm semiconductor, which puts it in the league of Intel and others, according to TRTWorld, and the United States, where the U.S. Congress has recently passed and President Joe Biden has recently signed a semiconductor subsidy bill aimed at promoting the domestic semiconductor industry, Taiwan remains atop, well, pretty much everybody else when it comes to making semiconductors.

Just how badly does the rest of the world need Taiwan’s semiconductor manufacturing? A 2021 Boston Consulting Group reported that more than 90 percent of the manufacturing capacity for the world’s most advanced semiconductors lies in Taiwan.

All of this suggests that Taiwanese industry will continue to invest heavily in tech spending, which in turn will keep the countries IP lawyers busy into the foreseeable future.

With this continuing interest in intellectual property protection in Taiwan, we turned to IP professionals in the region in order to understand better what clients need today. Asia IP asked a large number of professionals – mostly in-house counsel and corporate legal managers – what they were looking for from their legal service providers. From their answers, we have compiled our list of 50 Taiwan IP Experts, those lawyers who understand just what their clients need and are able to provide them with the best practical advice.

Today’s clients are looking for more than just a degree from a top-notch university and a couple of decades of practice. In order to be an outstanding provider of intellectual property advice, a lawyer must also be capable of understanding how intellectual property impacts the rest of his client’s business, and be able to provide practical, real-world, business-savvy advice. She must be able to provide sound advice on the current law, but also needs to be able to understand coming trends which are likely to impact her client’s business.

Unlike days past when she might have played just a bit role, today’s IP Expert is every bit a full-fledged team member.

Taiwan’s legal market has shown signs of fragmentation; there is more than a smattering of new and upcoming firms represented on our list. In fact, 26 different firms account for either one or two lawyers on the list. Tai E International Patent and Law Office and Top Team International Patent & Trademark Office each have three lawyers on the list.

Two of Taiwan’s heavy hitters represent more than 20 percent of the list, collectively. Tsai, Lee & Chen placed five lawyers on the list (Candy K.Y. Chen, Crystal J. Chen, Nick J.C. Lan, Victor S.C. Lee and Jesse K.Y. Peng), while Lee and Li placed six on the list (Roger Chang, Ta-Chung Chiang, Dennis Huang, Gloria Lu, Ruey-Sen Tsai and Daisy Wang).

Most of the lawyers named to our list have multiple practice specialties. Many of them are litigators, while others concentrate on prosecution work or provide strategic advice.

All of them have something in common: they are experts in their fields and, in one way or another, they provide extra value for their clients. They are Asia IP’s Taiwan IP Experts.

Name	Firm	Patents	Trademarks	Copyright	Enforcement	Licensing & Franchising	Media & Entertainment	IT & Telecoms	Pharma & Biotech	IP Litigation
Roger Chang	Lee and Li	•	•							•
Tony Chang	Saint Island International Patent & Law Offices	•	•		•					•
Yves (Yao-Hui) Chang	Li & Cai Intellectual Property Office	•
Alan Chen	TALENT Attorneys-at-law	•								•
Candy K.Y. Chen	Tsai, Lee & Chen	•						•
Che-Hung Chen	Chen & Lin	•								•
Clarice T.H. Chen	Sigma IPR	•	•		•				•	•
Crystal J. Chen	Tsai, Lee & Chen	•	•	•	•					•
Eve Chen	Eiger	•	•		•					•
H.G. Chen	TIPLO – Taiwan International Patent & Law Office	•	•		•					•
Paul Chen	Louis International Patent Office	•							•
Shelly Chen	Chen & Lin		•		•					•
Ta-Chung Chiang	Lee and Li	•
Peter J. Dernbach	Winkler Partners	•	•		•			•		•
John Eastwood	Eiger	•	•	•	•		•			•
Kuo-Hua Fan	Zoomlaw Attorneys-at-Law		•
Henry Guei	Tai E International Patent & Law Office	•	•		•					•
Joyce Ho	Tsar & Tsai Law Firm	•	•		•			•	•	•
Henry Hong	Top Team International Patent & Trademark Office	•	•
Russell Horng	Rich IP & Co.	•
Dennis Huang	Lee and Li	•				•				•
George Huang	Wisdom International Patent & Law Office	•	•
Yu-Lan Kuo	Formosa Transnational	•	•		•				•	•
Benjamin Lai	Giant Group International Patent, Trademark & Law Office	•	•		•					•
Nick J.C. Lan	Tsai, Lee & Chen		•		•					•
Jessie Lee	Formosan Brothers	•							•
Victor S.C. Lee	Tsai, Lee & Chen	•	•
Fa-Li Lin	Formosa Transnational		•		•					•
J.K. Lin	TIPLO – Taiwan International Patent & Law Office	•								•
Jennifer Lin	Tsar & Tsai Law Firm	•						•	•	•
Jerry C.Y. Lin	Tai E International Patent & Law Office	•
Patent Lin	Long River International Patent & Trademark Law Office	•				•
Yvonne Lin	Formosan Brothers	•								•
Gloria Lu	Lee and Li	•								•
Jamie C.C. Lu	Wideband IP	•
Jesse K.Y. Peng	Tsai, Lee & Chen	•								•
Gary Scott	ALTAI Partnership		•
C.F. Tsai	Deep & Far	•
Jane Tsai	Lee, Tsai & Partners	•	•	•	•					•
Ruey-Sen Tsai	Lee and Li		•		•					•
Cherry C.L. Tu	Sundial Intellectual Property Law Firm	•	•					•
Daisy Wang	Lee and Li	•			•				•
Jolene Wang	Lexcel Partners	•	•	•	•			•	•
Justin Wu	Wood & Wu Patent and Trademark Office	•
Peggy Wu	Top Team International Patent & Trademark Office	•	•						•
Jamie C. Yang	Innovatus Law		•	•	•	•	•
Fred Chi-Tai Yen	Tai E International Patent & Law Office	•	•
Jonathan Yen	Top Team International Patent & Trademark Office	•
Chien-Chung Yuan	Rich IP & Co.	•
Patrick Yun	Saint Island International Patent & Law Offices	•						•