12 According to the Patent Act, when a patentee is a natural person, school or a small and medium enterprise, which of the following fee may be reduced or exempted upon the patentee’s request?
(A) the fee for request for a compulsory license.
(B) the filing fee for a patent application
(C) the patent annuity
(D) the fee for request a reexamination

8 The patent owner sent a ___________ letter to the accused infringer notifying the possible infringement and requesting that the recipient stop the infringing activity immediately. Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the above sentence: (A) cease and desist (B) recommendation (C) injunction (D) appraisal

9 A ___________ is a two or three-dimensional layout or topography of an integrated circuit. Choose the one phrase that best completes the above sentence: (A) compilation work (B) mask work (C) original design (D) pseudonymous work

10 According to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, which of the following is not within the scope of “Industrial Property”? (A) patent (B) trademark (C) copyright (D) appellation of origin

11 According to the Patent Act, which of the following statement is incorrect? (A) The patentee of a reinvention shall not practice his/her patented invention without obtaining a prior consent from the patentee of the original invention. (B) When the inventor's right to indicate his/her name is infringed, he/she may request a ruling to indicate the inventor's name or otherwise to recover his/her reputation. (C) No utility model patent shall be granted to a utility model application which is detrimental to public order or public health. (D) An agreement concluded between an employer and an employee, by which the employee is precluded from enjoying his/her legitimate rights and interests in respect of his/her invention, utility model or design, shall be valid.

13 According to the Patent Act, which of the following statement is incorrect? (A) An invention patent right shall extinguish in the case of expiry on the duration of a patent right. (B) An invention patent right shall extinguish in the case of death of the patentee whether with or without an heir. (C) An invention patent right shall extinguish in the case of the patentee's failure of effecting the payment of a patent annuity for the second year or any year thereafter within the grace period. (D) An invention patent right shall extinguish in the case of voluntary abandonment of a patent right.

14 According to the Patent Act, which of the following statement regarding “right to apply for patent” is correct? (A) The “right to apply for patent” is not assignable. (B) The “right to apply for patent” is not inheritable. (C) The “right to apply for patent” shall not be taken as the subject for creation of a pledge. (D) Where the “right to apply for patent” is jointly owned by two or more persons, a joint-owner may, without the consent of the other joint-owners, assign his/her share therein to any third party.

15 According to Item 6 of Subsection 1 of Article 57, Taiwan Patent Act, which of the following models is established to deal with the issue of parallel importation? (A) domestic exhaustion (B) regional exhaustion (C) national exhaustion (D) international exhaustion

16 The inventions of business method are usually considered not within the patentable subject matters under patent law. Which of the following reasons is sufficient to support the aforesaid disqualification about patentability? (A) Business methods are merely abstract ideas. (B) Business methods must function with computer software. (C) Business methods contributed less to the industries than other technologies. (D) Business methods lack of tangible and concrete results.

17 Which of the following evidentiary sources may be used as intrinsic evidence to construe the patent claims? (A) dictionaries (B) the prosecution history (C) technical treatises (D) other patent applications

18 The requirement of enablement for patent is to facilitate a person having ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention without ___________ . Choose one phrase that best completes the above sentence. (A) sufficient embodiments (B) prior art (C) public use (D) undue experimentation