Brandon Yan

Jun 17, 2024 | lexology.com | Brandon Yan

專利法第5條第2項規定：「專利申請權人，除本法另有規定或契約另有約定外，指發明人、新型創作人、設計人或其受讓人或繼承人。」由此可知，設計專利申請權人係指設計人或其受讓人或繼承人。惟於設計專利之設計人為何人有所爭執時，應如何認定設計專利之設計人？近期智慧財產及商業法院（下稱智商法院）一則涉及確認「布丁捲模具」設計專利（下稱系爭專利）申請權人之判決（112年度民專訴字第26號民事判決）見解可供參考。1. 本案原告主張A研發、改良布丁捲模具之設計後，創作出一方形布丁條盤（下稱系爭布丁條盤），並將系爭專利申請權讓予原告。原告並於民國（下同）109年9月15日出資委託訴外人B公司代為開模製造系爭布丁條盤。原告嗣於同年10至11月間陸續出貨予被告擔任法定代理人之C公司，惟被告竟於110年10月20日以系爭布丁條盤申請專利，經智慧局核准後取得系爭專利。原告遂請求判決確認系爭專利申請權為原告所有。2.

Feb 2, 2024 | lexology.com | Brandon Yan

Article 25 of the Taiwan Fair Trade Act provides that no enterprise shall have any deceptive or obviously unfair conduct that is able to affect trading order.

Nov 13, 2023 | jamanetwork.com | Brandon Yan |Elizabeth Arias |Alan Geller

Widening Gender Gap in Life Expectancy in the US, 2010-2021 As life expectancy at birth in the US decreased for the second consecutive year, from 78.8 years (2019) to 77.0 years (2020) and 76.1 years (2021), the gap between women and men widened to 5.8 years, its largest since 1996 and an increase from a low of 4.8 years in 2010.1,2 For more than a century, US women have outlived US men, attributable to lower cardiovascular and lung cancer death rates related largely to differences in smoking...

Sep 23, 2023 | sfchronicle.com | Brandon Yan

San Francisco budgeted $597 million for behavioral health in the past fiscal year. Of that, $75 million went toward substance use treatment programs. So, did this government spending work? By one key measure, the drug epidemic is getting worse. In the first seven months of 2023, 473 people died from drug overdose, and the city appears on pace for another year of record deaths. But this measure proves too crude.