Company: FSTWF
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001213900-25-044386
Chunk: 61

Company: FST Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 61
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 the issue date of the patent.

In terms of the infringement
disputes of a patent, the civil division of the Intellectual Property and Commercial Court (“ IP Court”) hears civil actions
relating to patent infringement. If the defendant of an infringement action challenges the validity of the disputed patent as a defense,
the civil division will deal with the infringement and validity issues simultaneously. However, any person who intends to invalidate the
disputed patent in all aspects must file revocation proceedings (invalidation action) with the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (“ TIPO”). Decisions
of the TIPO in an invalidation action can be appealed to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and subsequently to the IP Court by way of
filing an administrative lawsuit.

The Company has never been
involved in patent-related disputes.

Copyright

The Copyright Law provides
that original copyrightable works shall enjoy exclusive rights automatically upon their completion, with no form of registration required.
The competent authority for the application and registration of trademarks is the TIPO under the Ministry of Economic Affairs. A copyrighted
work is protected throughout the author’s lifetime and 50 years after.

As a copyright holder, when
enforcing a copyright, bears the burden of proving the copyright ownership (and sometimes even the creation time of the copyright, if
such issue is being raised), it is recommended to preserve relevant evidence by having it notarized by a notary public. For important
copyrighted work, it is recommendable to obtain a copyright certificate issued by a copyright owners’ organization so as to serve
as prima facie evidence of the completion and ownership of the copyright. However, it is important to note that such private organizations
do not and cannot conduct any substantive examination of the copyrightability of a work. Therefore, when a work’s copyrightable
is being challenged, only a court will have a final say over such dispute on a case-by-case basis.

The Company has never been
involved in copyright-related disputes.

Trademarks

Trademark rights in Taiwan
are governed by the Trademark Act. The competent authority for the application and registration of trademarks is the TIPO. Types
of protection include trademarks, certification marks, collective membership marks and collective trademarks. The trademarks which were
registered are protected for 10 years from publication in the Trademark Gazette. This term may be extended successively every 10 years
via application for renewal.

The Company has been involved
in one trademark dispute. A Taiwan company filed a trademark opposition with TIPO in August 2023 object