16 One of the most controversial areas of customs law concerns “gray market goods”. What is the term to describe the importation of gray market goods?
(A) vertical importation
(B) random importation
(C) cross importation
(D) parallel importation

12 Which of the following reasons is not among the exceptions of the early publication of patent applications under Taiwanese patent law? (A) The patent application is protected by Taiwan Trade Secret Act as a subject matter of trade secret. (B) The patent applicant withdrew the patent application within 15 months after the application date. (C) The patent application is related to national defense secrets. (D) The patent application is against public orders or moralities.

13 An invention patent application would be through the procedure of substantive examination prior to patent granting. Which of the following statements is true? (A) Within 18 months after the patent application, on request, the Intellectual Property Office should conduct a substantive examination over this application. (B) Owing to interest conflicting, only the competitors of the applicant are entitled to requesting the substantive examination over the patent application. (C) If no request for the substantive examination has been made in due time, the application is deemed to be withdrawn. (D) The substantive examination over the patent application should be requested after this application has been published according to Taiwanese patent law.

14 A license under which the licensor grants the right to use a patent to licensee under the condition that the licensee agrees to grant the licensor a license with respect to any improvements to that patent made by the licensee is often called: (A) a grant back license (B) a grant forward license (C) an exclusive license (D) a sublicense

15 Which one of the following descriptions related to the Intellectual Property Case Adjudication Act is incorrect? (A) The court should judge the validity of patent by itself in a patent litigation. (B) There has been the mechanism of Technical Examination officer in such legal infrastructure. (C) The design of confidentiality preservation order in the Act has the purpose to protect trade secrets. (D) Adding the criminal penalty to the invasion of trade secrets is one important character to the Act.

17 The traditional American rule that each party bears its own attorneys’ fees is varied by statute in patent law. In an exceptional case, the prevailing party may be granted such fees. Which one of the following choices can be best substituted for the word “prevailing”? (A) losing (B) winning (C) coming (D) defending 

18 For the most part, patents are granted to inventors according to national law. Thus, patents represent _______ grants of exclusive rights. Fill in the blank with the best answer from the following choices. (A) collapsible (B) territorial (C) collateral (D) tiny

19 The failure of an invention to meet with the requirement of novelty under patent law usually resulted from _______ of the prior art. (A) preemption (B) suggestion (C) anticipation (D) instruction

20 A patent infringed may be determined by _______ when an accused product performed substantially the same function in substantially the same way to have the same result with what the patent did, provided that the manufacture of the accused product didn’t constitute literal infringement. (A) the compulsory licensing (B) the prior art defense (C) the all-element doctrine (D) the doctrine of equivalents

21 On claim drafting, a patent applicant sometimes uses a term in a manner leading to an either more restrictive or expansive meaning than its ordinary construction. Such a phenomenon in the patent practice means that _______ may be followed to define patent claims. Choose the one phrase that best completes the above sentence. (A) the prosecution history (B) the inventor’s lexicography (C) the expert’s testimony (D) the prior art

22 On determination of nonobviousness of a combination invention, the examiner is always concerned about _______, which means a combination of elements may produce a technological effect greater than that caused by the sum of those elements taken together. Choose the one word that best completes the above sentence. (A) synergism (B) inherency (C) collaboration (D) deposition