With economic and trade relations between the two sides growing ever closer, a number of makers of foodstuffs and cosmetics on Taiwan have found that business operators on the mainland have jumped in first and registered their patents and trademarks there and then demanded that the makers pay out large sums of money to buy back the rights.
兩岸經貿日趨密切，目前國內不少食品和化妝品廠商的專利和商標，遭大陸業者搶先在大陸登記，再以此要求我業者，拿出數十萬元以撤銷該登記。