In order to ensure the Company's intellectual property, strengthen its competitive advantages, achieve operational goals, increase profits, and ensure sustainable operations, the Company will actively assist R&D personnel in the right of R&D results and strive to promote internal intellectual property management plans to continue accumulate the Company's intellectual property volume, and promote the Company to use intellectual property as an advantage to its customers:

In Terms of Patent Management:

The Company encourages employees to submit invention applications. R&D personnel conduct technology development. R&D supervisors convene review meetings to review proposals; and commission an external patent office to process the patent layout plan and applications, and establish an intellectual property management mechanism to manage patent cases and control procedures.

In Trade Secret Management:

All of the computer equipment of the Company is identified by the employee's personal account and password.

All employees of the Company are equipped with access control magnetic cards. Visitors should register their identity when visiting the Company, and scope of activities is limited in public spaces, and must be accompanied by employees of the Company throughout the tour.

(1) Employees are obliged to keep personal business and Company business secrets.

(2) Employees shall not divulge any business secrets after taking up or leaving their posts. Otherwise, the Company not only has the right to expel an employee from the Company, but also owns the retroactive legal right and compensation right of the Company for losses.

(3) Employees of the Company shall not disclose or use the business secrets of their previous employer.

Implementation Status

The Company regularly submits intellectual property related matters to the Board of Directors every year. The most recent report date is December 19, 2023.

In 2021, a Republic of China invention patent titled “ANODE SLUDGE REMOVAL DEVICE, CLEANING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CLEANING SYSTEM” has been granted under patent number No. I738115.

In 2022, a People's Republic of China invention patent titled “ANODE SLUDGE REMOVAL DEVICE, CLEANING METHOD AND CLEANING SYSTEM” has been granted under patent number No. 5139485.