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over a patent application for invention is more than three years, the application shall be deemed to have been withdrawn.

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

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 (C) When the earlier patent application has been withdrawn, it cannot be claimed as a priority case.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.

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.

20 According to the R.O.C. Patent Act, which of the following statements regarding to the patent invalidation is NOT correct? (A) The patent invalidation is a kind of public examination. (B) Whoever possesses legal interests due to the revocation of a patent may file an invalidation action after the said patent has become extinguished ipso facto. (C) The patentee shall provide a response within one month after having been served with a copy of the request form from the Specific Patent Agency. (D) The revocation of an invention patent right shall become final and binding if no administrative remedy proceedings are filed.

21 Under the R.O.C. Patent Act, the right to apply for a patent cannot be the subject of . (A) Litigation (B) Assignment (C) Pledge (D) Inheritance

22 Under the R.O.C. Patent Act, which of the following circumstance does not limit the exclusive rights of patents? (A) Acts done privately and for non-commercial purposes (B) Necessary acts to exploit the invention for research or experimental purposes (C) Patentees not practicing or commercializing the invented technology (D) Vehicles merely passing through the territory of the country

23 Which of the following concept could best explain why business methods or computer software are often argued ineligible for patent protection? (A) Laws of nature (B) Natural phenomena (C) Abstract ideas (D) Morality criterion