Food sector fails to protect local culinary delights

IP PROTECTION Entry into the WTO may mean that the rights on some local eating traditions may soon be bought up by savvy foreign businesses

By Bill Heaney / STAFF REPORTER

High-tech firms in Taiwan recognized early that IPR protection would be important in the WTO, and firms such as Winkler and Hsu's Lee and Li Attorneys-at-Law (理律法律事務所) represent many of them. Neither firm has clients in the agriculture sector.

"The agriculture sector didn't pay any attention to IP in the past," Hsu said.