Corporate Sustainability

Intellectual Property Management

SASB TC-SI-520 
Intellectual Property Management Strategy

In order to protect the valuable development results and continuously enhance business profitability, SYSTEX actively creates the “Intellectual Property Management System”, and formulates the following management strategies as its Intellectual Property Management Policy management policy:

Intellectual Property Management Strategy and Policy
  • Continuously improve the quantity and quality of patents and trademarks
  • Actively participate in the development of key business opportunities
  • Use Intellectual Property to increase economic value and expand business
  • Implement Intellectual Property management to maintain competitive advantage
  • Enhance employees’ awareness of Intellectual Property management
  • Optimize Intellectual Property-related resources required for the Intellectual Property management system
Intellectual Property Management Targets

Based on the above Intellectual Property Management Policy, the management targets for 2025 are as follows:

  1. Revise the intellectual property management system.
  2. Conduct at least 3 training sessions on IP Management.
Intellectual Property Management System

For safeguarding innovation results and enhancing profitability, SYSTEX has formulated “Regulations for Patents and Trademarks Management”, regulating the management and maintenance of Intellectual Property rights, including patents, trademarks and others. In addition, SYSTEX also has Intellectual Property consultation mechanism to assist BU to identify Intellectual Property-related risks and formulate responding strategies in real times.

Intellectual Property Protection and Management Procedures
Result Record
  • IT engineers are required to record and save the work results in PM tools under strict authority control mechanism and document management restriction, ensuring that the development results become IPs more completely and effectively.
Management System
  • SYSTEX’s “document management system” combines with the existing document grading mechanism to standardize documents classification, grading, marking, assessing authority, transmission and preservation, avoiding losses caused by improper acquisition, use, contact or disclosure of confidential information.
Rules in Contract
  • New employees are required to sign an employee contract, stipulating that during the period of employment and after resignation, personnel shall bear the obligation of confidentiality of trade secrets and related intellectual property rights.
Regular Audit
  • SYSTEX regularly conducts the internal audit of R&D cycle and intellectual property management to ensure that the intellectual property management procedures are effectively implemented and maintained in accordance with SYSTEX’s strategies.
Dispute
  • SYSTEX has established the intellectual property handing procedures and communication channels to timely deal with intellectual property incidents to avoid losses caused by intellectual property disputes.
Intellectual Property Applications

With the intellectual property active usage in a commercialized manner, SYSTEX gradually strengthens the intellectual property licensing and technology transfer to deeply implement product patents and enhance customer experience, thereby increases customer satisfaction and trust. In addition, SYSTEX also attaches great importance to protect its own intellectual property, through the acquisition of intellectual property rights, as a means of infringement protection, to maintain SYSTEX’s brand identity and development results, and to consolidate its market position.

Intellectual Property Awareness Training and Risk Management

To enhance employees’ understanding and awareness of intellectual property protection, SYSTEX continuously strengthens IP awareness among relevant personnel through digital training courses and actively arranges internal and external education and training related to intellectual property for every department director. Department directors should be aware of the legal responsibilities and knowledge concerning computer programming works and understand the relevant risks to effectively mitigate internal intellectual property risks.

  • [Intellectual property promotion] Conducted 2 intellectual property awareness advocacies for employees, with a total of 7,811 participants and 99.4% completion rate in 2024.
  • [Training for dedicated personnel] Conduct several intellectual property-related training for IPRs-related employees
    (1) For IP personnel: “Basic Training on Intellectual Property” and “Advanced Training on Intellectual Property,” with a total of 567 participants and 513 hours in 2024.
    (2) For managers above: 2 seminars with a total 788 participants and 1,186 hours in 2024.
  • [Education for new-hire] Require new-hires (mandatory for FTE, optional for non-FTE) to complete the online courses of “New Employee Training Camp-IP Rights,” with a total of 1,375 participants and 650 hours of training in 2024.

2024 IPRs promotion advocacy

7811

2024 IPRs training for IP personnel

567

2024 IPRs training for managers and above

788

2024 IPRs education for new-hire

1375
Intellectual Property Management Performance
2024 Performance
Patent and
trademark application
  • By the end of 2024, SYSTEX held a total of 63 valid patents and 364 valid trademarks and expects to enhance brand recognition and expand business value through the flexible use of trademarks.
Institutionalize
Procedures
  • In 2024, a total of 6 new and revised regulatory documents were issued, including the “Intellectual Property Management Handbook of SYSTEX and Affiliated Companies.”
Raise Awareness
  • In 2024, SYSTEX provided four types of IP management training—online and hybrid sessions including “TIPS Basic Training,” “TIPS Advanced Training,” “Copyright and Fair Use,” and “IP Management and Corporate Integrity (Legal Case Sharing),” to strengthen employee awareness and capabilities while reducing internal IP risks.
Obtain TIPS (A) – Patents & Trademarks
  • In August 2024, the company applied for Level A certification of TIPS (2016 version) for patent and trademark management, and was notified of verification approval on September 27. The certification is valid until December 31, 2026. The company continued to refine and maintain its IP management systems to ensure effectiveness.

By the end of 2024, SYSTEX currently has more than 63 valid patents and more than 364 valid trademarks, enabling SYSTEX to enhance brand recognition and expand commercial value through the flexible use of trademarks.

SYSTEX has reported intellectual property-related issues of the current year to the Board of Directors on December 17, 2024.

Consultation contact for intellectual property-related issues: RPA0003@systex.com

2024 cumulative valid patents

63

2024 cumulative valid trademarks

364