AUO, Alibaba top domestic, foreign patent applicants in Taiwan in Q1

Taiwan's second-biggest flat panel maker, AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), remained the biggest applicant for invention patents in Taiwan in the first quarter of 2019, while Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. remained the foreign company with the most local invention patent filings, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) said Monday.

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