9 Under Article 33 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, how many years counted from the filing date must pass before the patent right expires?
(A)Five Six
(B) Ten
(C) Twenty
(D)

5 According to Intellectual Property Case Adjudication Act: “An applicant seeking an injunction maintaining the temporary status quo shall provide a preliminary showing proving it is necessary to prevent material harm or imminent danger or other similar circumstances with regard to the legal relation in dispute.” In the above paragraph, “status quo” means: (A)The coming danger The abnormal circumstances (B) (C)The lucrative condition The current (D) situation

6 Many countries have patent systems that are similar to “utility model”, sometimes using different names. Which of the following is conceptually similar to utility model? (A)Innovation patent (B)Plant patent Pretty patent (C) Utility patent (D)

7 Article 64 (1) of Patent Cooperation Treaty states: “(a) Any State may declare that it shall not be bound by the provisions of Chapter II. (b) States making a declaration under subparagraph (a) shall not be bound by the provisions of Chapter II and the corresponding provisions of the Regulations.” The best heading for the above article should be: (A)Amendments Declarations (B) Revisions (C) Reservations (D)

8 Under Article 28 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, which of the following statements about conferred patent right is correct? (A)A patent should confer on its owner to prevent third parties not having the owner’s consent from the acts of: making, using, offering for sale, selling, or importing for these purposes that process at least the product obtained directly by that process where the subject matter of a patent is a process. (B)A patent should confer on its owner to stop third parties not obtaining the owner’s consent from the act of using the product, and from the acts of: using, offering for sale, selling, or importing for these products where the subject matter of a patent is a product. (C)Patent owners should have the right to assign, or transfer by succession, the patent and to conclude licensing contracts. (D)Patent owners should not conclude licensing contracts.

10 Which of the following is not included within the purpose of enacting the R.O.C. Patent Act? (A)To encourage the creation of inventions, utility models and designs. (B)To protect the creation of inventions, utility models and designs. (C)To promote industrial development. (D)To balance different interests for the common good of society.

11 According to the R.O.C. Patent Act, which of the following is not classified as patents? (A)Audiovisual works Invention patents (B) (C)Utility model patents Design patents (D)

12 According to the R.O.C. Patent Act, which of the following statements about depositing biological materials of filing patent applications for invention involving biological materials or utilization of biological materials is correct? (A)When filing patent applications for inventions concerning biological materials or utilization of biological materials, the applicants should, later than the filing date, make deposits of the biological materials with domestic depositories designated by the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office. (B)No deposits are required even if the biological materials involved cannot be easily obtained by people ordinarily skilled in the art. (C)Applicants should, within six months after the filing dates of patent applications, submit to the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office certificates of deposit, indicating the depositories, dates of deposit and deposit numbers. (D)If the required documents are not submitted within the specified time period, the deposits should be deemed not to have been made.

13 According to the R.O.C. Patent Act, which of the following items is not within the statutory exclusion of design patents? (A)Shapes of articles solely shown through their designs (B)Fine arts (C)Layouts of integrated circuits and electronic circuits (D)Articles contrary to morality

14 Which of the following is patentable? (A)Inventions Abstract ideas (B) Physical phenomena (C) Laws of nature (D)

15 Mainly but not exclusively used in chemistry, a is a claim with multiple “functionally equivalent” chemical entities allowed in one or more parts of the compound. The proper format for this type of claim is: “selected from the group consisting of A, B and C”. Choose the one that best completes the above sentence: (A)Markush claim Jepson claim (B) Beauregar (C) d claim Omnibus claim (D)