Intellectual Property Management

The company is a leading manufacturer of halogen-free environmentally friendly copper clad laminates (CCL). The halogen-free environmentally friendly CCL for handheld devices (used in smartphones and tablet computers) is ranked number one in sales in the world. The high-speed CCL’s are mainly used in servers and switches. In addition, automotive and industrial CCL’s have also gained some market shares. The company’s products are all independently developed by itself. In order to protect the company’s R&D technology and strengthen its competitive advantages, the relevant R&D technologies have been submitted for patents application, and have been granted by various countries.

The company’s intellectual property management strategies include: leading technology research and development, leading patent layout, and avoiding patents from its industry peers. Establish an examination system for patent application proposals, review and control the quality and innovation of patent application proposals. Innovative and high-quality patent proposals will be submitted to various countries for patent application, to ensure the depth of the company’s patent value and the advantages of exclusive rights. The company has also set a target number for its invention patent application and patent grant rate each year, to effectively increase the breadth of the company’s patent rights. In addition, the maintenance of the company’s patent rights and matters like the payment of annual fees are all being managed through its internal operating system.

The company also formulated the "Patent Application and Reward Measures" to motivate employees to actively transform R&D results into intellectual property protection (including patent applications, business secrets, or thesis publications, etc.) through a complete system and process, to drive the company’s product and technology research with innovation. And by strengthening the company’s patent coverage, the company’s overall patent effectiveness and its technology competitiveness can be enhanced.

The company has obtained the registration of trademark exclusive rights.

The company has applied for nearly 300 patents, and approximately 210 patents have been approved, including 193 approved patents for inventions, which are deployed in major markets and countries. The company continues to apply for the patents.

The company has reported the intellectual property related updates at the 10th Meeting of the 11th term of the BOD Meeting (held on December 21, 2020).