試題詳解

17 Which of the following descriptions about “duty of staff members and patent examiners” under the R.O.C. Patent Act is true?
(A) While serving in the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office, staff members shall receive any interests related to such patent indirectly for succession.
(B) Patent examiners of the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office are not required to keep confidential any design of an applicant which have been possessed by them in the course of performing their duties for interior uses.
(C) Where, for a concerned patent case, the patent examiner’s spouse is the patentee, the patent examiner requires to exclude himself or herself.
(D) Where, for a concerned patent case, the patent examiner is currently related to the invalidation requester by consanguinity within the ninth degree or by affinity within the eighth degree, the patent examiner needs to exclude himself or herself.