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The Cupertino-based company filed 259 invention patent applications and 132 design patent applications in the January-June period, more than any other foreign enterprise, the IPO said.

It was the first time that Apple had captured the top spot in both patent application categories, the bureau said.

The following are excerpts from a special report on the topic in the Saturday edition of the Commercial Times:

Apple did not make much of an effort to apply for patents in Taiwan in the past, cases for iphone 5 an IPO official said Friday.

"Its attitude has changed in recent years amid mounting competition in the smartphone market," said the official.

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp.'s aggressiveness in applying for patents has also prompted the U.S. consumer electronics giant to take active steps in seeking patent protection for its high-end devices, the official said.

According to IPO statistics, Apply filed 65 times as many design patent applications and about the same number of invention patent applications in the first half of 2013 as it did during the first half of last year.

In comparison, HTC filed 124 invention patent applications in the six-month period, up 34.7 percent year-on-year.

The company also filed 32 design patent applications during the same period, more than four times the number it filed a year ago.

HTC ranked seventh among Taiwanese companies in the invention patent category and sixth in terms of design patent applications.

Samsung Electronics Co., along with Apple the strongest player in the smartphone sector, filed 93 smartphone-related invention patent applications in Taiwan during the same period, up 43 percent, and 85 design patent applications, up 157 percent.

The South Korean technology titan ranked 16th among foreign applicants in the invention patent category and second in terms of design patent applications.

Samsung's display panel division also filed 176 invention patent applications, while Taiwan's leading LCD panel maker AU Optronics Corp. filed 184 applications.

The figures reflect the intense competition seen in the flat panel industry, the IPO official said.

In the first half of the year, Hon Hai outstripped all other Taiwanese corporations in invention applications with 1,429 cases, up 2.9 percent year-on-year.

Meanwhile, HTC North Asia general manager Jack Tong said Friday that even though the company's new generation Butterfly smartphone -- the Butterfly S -- has not sold as well as the first generation model since its launch more than a month ago, HTC would remain the top selling smartphone brand in Taiwan in the third quarter.

Thanks to robust sales of the HTC Butterfly and the new HTC One models, HTC managed to reclaim its best-seller status in Taiwan in the second quarter after losing that honor to Samsung for nearly a year.
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