Under China’s imperial rule, Taiwan had been a part of the Qing Dynasty’s initial efforts to modernize the Chinese economy by offering basic protections for intellectual property. However, when it was ceded to the Japanese Empire Japanese law was imposed upon the territory, which included the Japanese intellectual property law that had evolved from its 1871 inception to cover patent, trademark, and copyright.101 Despite the separate influences from China and Japan, the concepts behind the implementation of intellectual property protection followed the same basic principles