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The Board of Directors evaluates and supervises the performance of the Company’s intellectual property operational direction to ensure the implementation of the plans and the establishment of an intellectual property management system. The Company has submitted a report to the 29th meeting of the 9th session (July 26, 2024) of the Board of Directors on matters relating to intellectual property.

• Technology development by the R&D unit and assistance in patent application through an external patent office
• Providing superior customer experience through FinTech service scope for digital financial and automation services
• Conducting annual stocktake of the Group’s patent application status and formulating strategies to align with operational objectives
• Training the staff’s professional skills and encouraging R&D to effectively promote innovation, progress, and development

• Protecting the fairness and stability of the Company’s competition in the marketplace and enhancing the identification of products or services offered
• Avoiding confusion and misunderstanding by customers, protecting the Company’s trademark rights and the interests of consumers, and preventing unfair competition
• The acquisition of trademark rights allows the Company to exclude others from using the same or similar trademarks that infringe on the Company, and recognizes the quality of the Company’s financial products and services

In order to establish a complete and sound environment for the protection of intellectual property rights and to improve the Company’s management policy on the acquisition, protection, maintenance, and application of intellectual property rights, on August 19, 2020, Yuanta Financial Holding Company Limited completed the Intellectual Property Rights Management Guidelines.

In order to promote the protection of intellectual property as an important asset of the Company, the Patent Rights Management Rules of Yuanta Financial Holding Company Limited was completed on August 31, 2020, and the Trademark Rights Management Rules of Yuanta Financial Holding Company Limited was completed on September 8, 2020, and the Company shall comply with the provisions of the Rules in carrying out its business.

In order to implement the intellectual property management work, cooperate with the Taiwan Intellectual Property Management System (TIPS) validation promoted by the Institute for Information Industry (III), and continue to improve management with the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle, the five subsidiaries of Yuanta Financial Holding Company (FHC), namely, Yuanta Securities, Yuanta Futures, Yuanta Bank, Yuanta Life, and Yuanta Funds, all passed the TIPS (Class A) certification . Yuanta Securities’ and Yuanta Futures’ certificates are valid from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2024, and Yuanta Bank’s, Yuanta Life’s and Yuanta Funds’ certificates are valid from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025.