13 The court has the discretion to increase the damages up to three times the amount found or assessed. The so-called “enhanced damages” are frequently awarded when the infringer acted in blatant disregard of the patentee’s rights. This circumstance is termed ________ .
(A) Divided infringement
(B) Inducing infringement
(C) Contributory infringement
(D) Willful infringement

9 Which of the following cannot be used as a defense against patent infringement accusations? (A) Forum shopping (B) Implied license (C) Inequitable conduct (D) Patent exhaustion

10 Which of the following can be used as extrinsic evidence in claim interpretation? (A) Specification (B) Dictionaries (C) Patent claims (D) Prosecution history

11 Which of the following issue could possibly be argued in patent litigation while the claims employ words of degree, such as “close to,” “approximately,” “substantially equal,” or “closely approximate”? (A) Definiteness (B) Inventorship (C) Utility (D) Eligibility

12 Which of the following requirement mandates the patentee to disclose sufficient information in the patent application so that a skilled artisan would be able to practice the claimed invention without undue experimentation? (A) Eligibility (B) Enablement (C) Estoppel (D) Essentiality

14 According to the R.O.C. Patent Act, which of the following statements is NOT correct? (A) The pledgee of the patent right shall not be allowed to exploit the right, unless the patentee confers the right. (B) The owner of the right to apply for a patent includes an inventor, a designer, and a pledgee. (C) The successor of the right to apply for a patent can transfer the right to the assignee. (D) The patent right can be transferred to an assignee after the patent application has been approved.

15 According to the R.O.C. Patent Act, which of the following statements is NOT correct? (A) A foreign applicant who is not the citizen of WTO members is unable to make a priority claim. (B) When the earlier patent application is a patent application for invention that has been published, it cannot be claimed as a priority case. (C) When the earlier patent application has been withdrawn, it cannot be claimed as a priority case. (D) For a patent application filed with priority, examination on its patentability shall be based on the priority date.

16 According to the R.O.C. Patent Act, which of the following statements is NOT correct? (A) Three inventions related to a single general inventive concept cannot be filed in one application. (B) A patent application that substantially contains two inventions may request by the applicant to be divided into two divisional applications. (C) The filing date of the divisional patent application shall be the same as the filing date of the original application. (D) The divisional patent application shall not extend beyond the scope of content disclosed in the description of the original patent application as filed.

17 According to the R.O.C. Patent Act, which of the following statements related to substantive examination is NOT correct? (A) All kinds of patent applications have the procedures of substantive examination. (B) Any person may request for a substantive examination of a patent application for invention. (C) Design patent applications do not have to request for substantive examinations. (D) When a request for a substantive examination over a patent application for invention is more than three years, the application shall be deemed to have been withdrawn.

18 According to the R.O.C. Patent Act, which of the following statements related to utility model patents is NOT correct? (A) Any person may file a request for a technical evaluation report of a utility model patent. (B) A patent application for a utility model patent will undergo administrative examination and formality examination procedures. (C) A right holder of utility model patent may not send a warning letter to an accused patent infringer without the technical evaluation report to the utility model patent. (D) The technical evaluation report for exercising the rights to utility model patent shall be assumed to have the patentability.

19 According to the R.O.C. Patent Act, which of the following statements is NOT correct? (A) The claim may be made against a person who is fully aware that the patent application for invention has been laid open but continues to commercially exploit the invention prior to its publication. (B) If the patent certificate number is not marked on the patented article, the patentee cannot claim damages for the infringement. (C) An invention patent will be assigned a publication number eighteen months after the filing date. (D) If the patent certificate number cannot be fixed on the patented article, the patentee may make such marking on the labels or packaging.