In order to get trademark protection to prevent infringement, most of the business entity or individual involved in business are registered their trademark. The number of registration is mounted. Second, the unique trademark system for associated trademark and defensive trademark in Taiwan are also contributes to the number of registration. The system for trademark, associated trademark and defensive trademark is unique in Taiwan, Japan and other few countries. It is another reason for huge amount of registration.
Foreign registrations are a lot.
Registration is important for trademark protection in Taiwan, for these huge amount registrations, the search tools are important. For word mark, before 1992, the application for a word mark or mark combined with word is examined by manual. It is what we are going to introduce in the follow. For the drawing, before 1993, the applications for drawing mark or mark combined with drawing are examined by manual. Then horse, in the animal drawing book.