Taiwan Trademarks in English: New TIPO Registrations by Class and Country

Every new Taiwan trademark registration from the official TIPO gazette, in English and as JSON/CSV. Filter by Nice class and owner country. For Taiwanese companies you also get the 統一編號 (UBN) and official English name from the government business and trade registers.

• Brand-protection and IP-watch teams: see which marks were registered in Taiwan this fortnight in your classes, e.g. all new class 9 and 42 marks, or every mark owned by a Chinese or US company.
• Sourcing and market-entry analysts: spot which Taiwanese manufacturers are launching brands, with UBN, English name and export qualification ready to join to your supplier data.
• Data teams: one clean row per registration with ISO dates, ISO country codes and per-row licence attribution. There is no scraping and no login.

Unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO, 經濟部智慧財產局). This is data about trademarks; it grants no rights in any mark. A gazette entry is not legal advice on availability or infringement.

What you get

One dataset item per registered mark from a gazette issue. One issue holds about 2,500–3,500 registrations; TIPO publishes about twice a month.

Field	Example	Notes
registrationNo, applicationNo	02563100, 114091624
markName, markText, includesDevice	百特兔PATTO RABBIT及圖, 百特兔PATTO RABBIT, true	及圖 ("and device") is split off into includesDevice
markDesign / markDesignZh	colour, 2D / (彩色)(平面)	English is our unofficial rendering
niceClasses, classes[]	[1]; {class, classTitle, goodsServicesZh}	Class titles are short unofficial English labels; goods text is the Chinese original
filingDate, priorityDate, priorityCountryCode	2025-12-11, 2025-08-08, US	ROC dates converted to ISO
rightsStartDate, rightsEndDate	2026-10-16, 2036-10-15	Term of protection
gazetteIssue, gazetteVolume, gazetteNumber	053020, 53, 20
owners[]	see below
primaryOwnerNameEn, primaryOwnerNameZh, primaryOwnerUbn		First named owner, for flat CSV export
source, sourceUrl, licence	TIPO gazette, data.gov.tw 15975, OGDL v1.0	On every row, as the licence requires

Owners. Companies and organisations: nameZh, nameEn (from the gazette, or from the BOFT importer/exporter register when the gazette has none, see nameEnSource), countryCode, country, region (Taiwan city or county), and directory (below).

Individuals and sole proprietorships: only {"ownerType": "individual" | "soleProprietorship", "countryCode", "country", "nameWithheld": true}. No name, no hash, no region. See Privacy.

Directory join (joinDirectory, on by default). For company and organisation owners, the exact Chinese name is looked up in the Ministry of Finance business register. A unique match gives directory.ubn, and the importer/exporter register adds registeredTrader, importQualified, exportQualified and nameEnOfficial. Names shared by more than one business are reported as match: "ambiguous" without a UBN. In the 2026-10-16 issue, 1,108 of 1,130 Taiwanese company/organisation owners (98%) matched to a UBN, and 609 gained an official English name that the gazette lacked.

Real output: samples/latest-issue-053020-sample.json.

Input

Field	Default	Meaning
gazetteIssues	[] = latest issue	Up to 6 issues as <volume><number>, e.g. 053020 (volume 53 = 2026). Back issues come from TIPO's FTPS server (see Back issues)
niceClasses	all	e.g. ["9", "42"]
ownerCountries	all	ISO codes, e.g. ["TW"], ["CN", "HK"]
ownerTypes	all	company, organisation, soleProprietorship, individual
markKeyword	none	Text in the mark name, Latin or Chinese
joinDirectory	true	Adds about 30–60 s per run
maxResults	5000

Example: new software and IT-service marks owned by Taiwanese companies.

{ "niceClasses": ["9", "42"], "ownerCountries": ["TW"], "ownerTypes": ["company"] }

Back issues

TIPO serves only the latest issue over HTTPS. Older issues from 045001 (January 2018) onward are on ftps://ftp.tipo.gov.tw/TrademarkRegXMLB/<ROC year>/TrademarkRegXMLB_<volume><number>/, with anonymous access and implicit TLS, per TIPO's FTP manual v3.1; tested on Apify with issues 045001, 050010 and 053019. Only the XML file is downloaded; images and sound files are never fetched. If FTPS is unreachable, the run reports the failed issue in OUTPUT and still returns any other issues. If nothing could be read, the run fails with the reason.

Privacy

• Individual owners: no name and no hash. About a third of owners in a typical issue are natural persons. Their names appear in a statutory gazette, but TIPO's open-data declaration (§II.2) leaves Personal Data Protection Act compliance to re-users. This Actor outputs only ownerType and country for them.
• Sole proprietorships are written in the gazette as "trade name + owner's personal name". They are withheld the same way.
• Anything that cannot be confidently classified as a company or organisation is treated as an individual. The classifier is a keyword heuristic, so a few companies may be withheld; no individual should be named.
• Never output: examiner names (Censor), trademark agent names, free-text descriptions, mark images and sound files.
• The directory join reads only company/organisation names. It never looks up withheld owners, and never outputs representatives, addresses or phone numbers.

Attribution and licence

• Trademark data: 經濟部智慧財產局 (Taiwan Intellectual Property Office), 商標註冊案公報 (Trademark registration gazette), data.gov.tw dataset 15975, Open Government Data License v1.0. TIPO's website open-data declaration uses the same licence.
• Directory join: Ministry of Finance, Fiscal Information Agency business register (data.gov.tw 9400), and the International Trade Administration, MOEA importer/exporter register (data.gov.tw 79641), both OGDL v1.0.
• The licence covers the data only. Under OGDL §2(4) and TIPO's declaration §II.1 it does not cover trademark rights, logos or images, which is why images are not redistributed.
• English labels (country, region, design, class titles) are unofficial translations. The Chinese original is always kept next to them, and no source content is altered.

Related: Taiwan Company Registry & KYB Lookup

Pass the primaryOwnerUbn values to Taiwan Company Registry & KYB Lookup to get full company records: tax-registration status, capital, founding date, industry, and English address for importers/exporters. You can also add optional TFDA/NCC licence counts and sanctions screening flags.

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price	When
apify-actor-start	$0.005	once per run (charged automatically by Apify)
result	$0.004	one registered trademark delivered to the dataset

Only marks that match your filters and are delivered are charged. The run stops cleanly when your maximum charge per run is reached. Examples from the 2026-10-16 issue (053020): classes 9 and 42, Taiwanese company owners (156 marks) cost about $0.63; the full issue (2,808 marks) costs about $11.24.

Limitations

• Coverage is new registrations only (not applications, oppositions, renewals or assignments).
• The directory join is exact-name only, so foreign owners rarely match: their Taiwan branches are registered under different names.
• markTypeCode is passed through as the raw TIPO code (0 for nearly all marks). Its official meaning is not documented in the open-data file.