May 27, 2024
Taiwan Issues Report on Patent Trends for Semiconductor Industry Waste Management The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) recently issued a report titled Analysis of Patent Trends of Key Technologies for Waste Treatment in the Semiconductor Industry. The document looked at patent applications related to waste treatment of copper, silica mud and hydrogen in the semiconductor industry. Regarding applications related to copper recycling, the patent offices of the US, Japan, Europe, China and Korea ranked as the top five patent offices in terms of the number of patent applications and accounted for approximately 70% of patent applications in this field worldwide. Looking at the data regionally, applicants from various Asian countries accounted for 62% of the worldwide total, but European, American and Australian applicants also filed a significant number of patent applications reflecting their long histories of large mining companies and their continued development of their technological level such as in the fields of pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, microbial metallurgy and other processing means. Regarding applications related to silica mud recycling, the abovementioned five major patent offices plus TIPO accounted for 93% of patent applications in this field worldwide. Regionally, applicants from Asian countries filed the majority of patent applications totaling 86.5% worldwide. By contrast, Europe and American applicants only came to 7.2% worldwide, reflecting that Asian applicants had more initiative to develop technologies related to the various types of solid liquid separation such as filtration, centrifugation, flotation, fusion, vaporization, magnetic separation, gravity separation, hydrocyclone, electrostatic separation and vacuum microwave drying. Regarding applications related to hydrogen recovery, except for the Korean office, the other four major ranked offices were the biggest source... May 13, 2024
Pursuant to Philippine Competition Commission (“PCC”) Resolution No. 01-2024, the new thresholds for mandatory or compulsory notification of mergers and acquisition (“M&A”) transactions with PCC is at PhP 7.8 Billion for size of party (“SOP”) and PhP 3.2 Billion for size of transaction (“SOT”). To be subject to compulsory notification, the proposed transaction should satisfy both the: (1) SOP Test and the (2) SOT Test. Failure to meet any of the 2 tests exempts a transaction from the notification requirement. The new thresholds are an increase from the SOP and SOT of PhP 7 Billion and PhP 2.9 Billion, respectively, that were in effect from 01 March 2023 to 29 February 2024. The new thresholds do not affect notifications filed before 01 March 2024, M&As currently under review, or those already reviewed and decided upon by the PCC. The thresholds are adjusted on the 1st day of March of every succeeding year by the PCC based on the Philippine Statistics Authority’s (“PSA”) office estimate of the nominal gross domestic product (“GDP”) growth of the previous calendar year. Kristin Charisse Siao Kristin Charisse Siao (“KC”) is a Partner at Villaraza & Angangco and the head of the firm’s M&A, Competition Law, and Energy practice areas. She is a Corporate and M&A lawyer with a convergence of expertise in Tax and Competition Laws that uniquely positions her to provide seamless transaction legal support – from deal structuring, to legal due diligence, transaction documentation, closing and post-transaction integration. Ira Mari J. Sembrano Ira Mari... May 4, 2024
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