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. As in other areas in East Asia, Taiwanese culture had no