Company: AGCC
Filing Date: 2025-10-22
Form Type: 424B4
Source: 0001213900-25-101076
Chunk: 126

Company: Agencia Comercial Spirits Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-10-22
Form: 424B4
Chunk 126
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 regulations, and advertising regulations for their alcohol products. Failure to comply with such regulations may result in fines and other administrative sanctions. Regulations on Intellectual Property Rights Patent Protection Pursuant to the Patent Act, amended on May4, 2022, there are three types of patents in Taiwan: invention patents, utility model patents, and design patents, the respective patent terms of which are20,10, and 15 years, all calculated from the filing date of a patent application, while the patent rights are actionable from the issue date of the patent. Copyright The Copyright Act 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 Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (“TIPO”) under the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Basically, the economic rights endure for the life of the author and fifty years after the author’s death; the economic rights in works authored by a juristic person endure for fifty years after the public release of the work. Since 1985, a work receives copyright protection in Taiwan upon its completion, and copyright registration is no longer a condition to receive such protection. In 1998, the voluntary copyright recordation was further abolished. In order to reduce a copyright owner’s burden of proof, Article 13 of the Copyright Act adopts a mechanism to shift the burden of proof. If a person’s name is stated as the copyright owner or a publication date or place is stated in an ordinary way on the reproductions of a work or when the work is published, the copyright of the work will be presumed to belong to such person and the work will be presumed to be published on such date or in such place. However, the claimed copyrights may be challenged by the counterparty in the court proceedings. Given that, 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. Notwithstanding the above, there is no standard way to state relevant information or prove copyright ownership. In addition, if a defendant produces any 88 evidence to prove the contrary, the plaintiff would still bear the burden of proof and thus should submit documents on the creation process or other proof of the authorship or copyright