Intellectual property management plan and implementation

A. Intellectual property management Plan Linking Corporate and Operational Goals

Founding purpose: The way of great learning consists in manifesting one's bright virtue, consists in loving the people, consists in stopping in perfect goodness.
Business philosophy: See clearly, see comfortably, and see a new future.
Vision and goal: A pride of Taiwan’s vision biotechnology industry.
Operational strategy: Grasp the trends in the eye health industry, focus on the world's leading optometry equipment, strengthen brand power, develop platforms, and continue to expand cross-strait cooperative clinics and direct-operated optical store channels.

The company actively encourages innovation and independent research and development, and in order to strengthen the management of the company's intellectual property rights and implement corporate governance to ensure the company's sustainable operations, it has formulated the "Intellectual Property Rights Management Regulations " in the hope of linking the company's operating goals and accumulating intellectual property results. thereby creating company value. In addition to using intellectual property rights to strengthen competitive advantages, we also continue to pay attention to and study the latest cases and regulatory requirements related to intellectual property rights at home and abroad to respond to potential operational risks.

1. Patent and Trademark Management
  • (1) Application: In order to protect the company's research and development results and enhance brand recognition and brand value, the company through specialized units and professional external offices, according to the business layout, assist in the retrieval of patents and trademarks, and immediately in various countries Apply for registration.
  • (2) Maintenance: The company has obtained patents and trademarks by a dedicated unit to keep and record rights-related documents, and regularly review the use of approved patents and trademarks to assess the necessity of continued maintenance.
2. Trade secret protection measures:
  • (1) When employees join the company, it is agreed that employees have the obligation to keep personal business and company business secrets, and employees should abide by the obligation to protect the company's confidential technology or information after taking office or leaving the company.
  • (2) For confidential information that needs to be disclosed externally, confidentiality documents must be signed with the recipient.
  • (3) The company's internal computer system has authority control, and a special unit is responsible for regular publicity of information security operations.
B. Implementation Status form2022 to 2023
  • The company actively promotes intellectual property management plans. The main implementation details in recent years are as follows:
  • 1. The company regularly report intellectual property matter to the board of directors report each year, and the last two report dates were June 21, 2023 and November 10, 2022.
  • 2. The company continues to carry out intellectual property management operations. The main implementation situations in recent years are as follows:
    1. (1) In August 2022, the " Intellectual Property Rights Management Regulations " were formulated.
    2. (2) In June 2023, the "Trade Secrets Law" course education and training was held and included in the on-the-job training course for new employees. As of December 31, 2023, a total of 327 people had been trained.
    3. (3) In December 2023, regularly check the status of patent and trademark applications.
    4. (4) In 2023, there will be no trademark or patent infringement cases.
  • 3. The current inventory of intellectual property and the results are as follows (as of December 2023):
    1. (1) Patents: The company has obtained 16 Taiwan patents, 5 Chinese patents, 2 US patents, and a total of 23 global patents.
    2. (2) Trademarks: The company has obtained 84 Taiwanese trademarks, 48 Chinese trademarks, and 1 Japanese trademark. A total of 133 domestic and foreign trademarks have been obtained.
Accumulative Number of Intellectual Property as December 31,2023
Item / LocationTaiwanChinaU.S.JapanTotal
Patent1652-23
Trademark8448-1133