About TIPLO
I. TIPLO’s Founding Origins and Enduring Mission
TIPLO Attorneys-at-Law / Taiwan International Patent & Law Office was founded in 1965 by the late Mr. Min-Sheng Lin, Attorney-at-Law, together with a group of intellectual property lawyers and technical professionals.
From its inception, TIPLO has been committed to serving the business community through high-quality patent and trademark prosecution and the strategic acquisition, protection, and enforcement of intellectual property rights.
Beginning in the 1980s, TIPLO expanded beyond IP prosecution into sophisticated IP enforcement, litigation, dispute resolution, and complex commercial matters. Over the decades, the Firm has developed into one of Taiwan’s leading IP-centered full-service law firms, providing clients with comprehensive legal support extending well beyond intellectual property into corporate, commercial, contentious, and regulatory matters.
As of August 2026, TIPLO’s professional and support resources included:
* 20 attorneys-at-law, including 13 proficient in English &/or Japanese;
* 30 patent attorneys, including 25 proficient in English &/or Japanese;
* Approximately 93 patent engineers and technical specialists, including approximately 80 proficient in English &/or Japanese;
* 45 professionals engaged in trademark, legal, and technical-document translation and processing, including 3 Japanese staff members;
* Approximately 110 patent-filing and administrative professionals, including approximately 40 proficient in Japanese;
* 7 IT programmers;
* 6 dedicated IT support professionals; and
* a total workforce of approximately 290 professionals and staff.
* TIPLO also maintains a liaison presence in Tokyo.
II. Professional Philosophy
TIPLO is built upon a client-first professional philosophy grounded in three principles:
1. Commitment to Client Objectives
We approach each engagement with responsiveness, accuracy, integrity, and a strong sense of professional responsibility.
2. Professional Capability
We combine substantive legal expertise, technical understanding, procedural experience, and the ability to develop practical and commercially meaningful solutions.
III. Accurate and Effective Communication
Our multilingual capabilities and decades of cross-border experience enable us to understand both the expressed and underlying needs of our clients and to communicate legal and technical issues clearly and precisely.
Our lawyers, patent attorneys, engineers, technical specialists, translators, docketing professionals, and administrative teams operate through an integrated internal network. This multidisciplinary structure enables TIPLO to respond efficiently and creatively while maintaining rigorous quality control and professional accountability.
IV. Reputation, Tradition, and Professional Standing
For more than six decades, TIPLO has built a strong reputation in Taiwan for intellectual property, commercial law, litigation, negotiation, and dispute resolution.
The Firm’s experience includes major contentious matters before courts and administrative authorities, and its longstanding professional record has contributed to its recognition within the business, judicial, administrative, and legal communities.
TIPLO continues to adhere to the founding philosophy of its late founder, Mr. Min-Sheng Lin: professional service must be rendered with integrity, loyalty, dedication, and a genuine commitment to the client’s long-term interests.
We regard client confidence not merely as a business relationship, but as a professional trust that must be earned and continuously protected.
V. A Pioneer in IP Enforcement and Full-Service Legal Representation
Since its founding in 1965, TIPLO has played a prominent role in patent and trademark prosecution, intellectual property enforcement, litigation, and dispute resolution.
Beginning in the 1970s, TIPLO became actively involved in IP enforcement and litigation in Taiwan. During the 1980s, before Taiwan had enacted a comprehensive Fair Trade Act, TIPLO represented internationally known companies including Pentel and LEGO in actions against unfair competitive conduct that exploited gaps in the then-existing legal framework.
Through creative legal advocacy, carefully developed evidentiary strategies, and the coordinated use of available patent, trademark, civil, and commercial law remedies, TIPLO successfully helped secure decisions protecting legitimate rights holders and contributed to the development of Taiwan’s legal response to unfair competition.
Building upon these achievements, TIPLO progressively expanded into broader corporate and commercial legal services and today provides clients with comprehensive legal support across contentious and non-contentious matters.
