24 Under Article 72 of the Patent Act in Taiwan, where a party possesses recoverable legal interests due to the revocation of a patent, such interested party may file a(n) _____ action after the said patent has become extinguished ipso facto.
(A)elimination
(B)evaluation
(C)expiration
(D)invalidation

20 Ariel exclusively licenses her design patent to Ursula. During the licensing term, Ursula discovers that Carlotta infringes Ariel’s patent. Under Subparagraph 4 of Article 96 of the Patent Act in Taiwan: (A)Ursula can sue Carlotta unless otherwise agreed upon by the licensing contract. (B)Ursula can sue Carlotta regardless how it is written in the licensing contract. (C)Ursula has to ask Ariel to sue Carlotta unless otherwise agreed upon by the licensing contract. (D)Ursula has to ask Ariel to sue Carlotta regardless how it is written in the licensing contract.

21 Which of the following one is patentable under the Patent Act in Taiwan? (A)Color and pattern of fine arts. (B)Graphic user interface applied to an article. (C)The layout of electronic circuits. (D)Shape of an article solely dictated by this function.

22 Under Subparagraph 2 of Article 129 of the Patent Act in Taiwan, two or more articles belonging to the same class and are _____ sold or used together may be filed as one design. (A)collectively (B)correspondently (C)corruptively (D)customarily

23 Under Article 70 of the Patent Act in Taiwan, an invention patent shall become extinguished where: (A)the patent licensing term has expired. (B)the patentee has passed away with heirs. (C)the patentee fails to pay the patent annuity within the time period provided by the Patent Act. (D)the patentee has pledged the patent.

25 An invention claimed in a patent is obvious under Subparagraph 2 of Article 22 of the Patent Act in Taiwan if (A)it can be easily made by a person having ordinary skill in the art based on prior art. (B)once a skilled person had been directed to come up with a solution to be problem solved by the invention, that person would have found the claimed invention. (C)the prior art contains a clear signpost to seek developments in the area of the invention. (D)the skilled person, working from a particular piece of prior art and bearing in mind common general knowledge, would have identified a problem to be solved and in solving it found the claimed invention.

1 As a result of the current economic recession, the number of people looking for employment has far _____________the number of jobs waiting to be filled. (A) justified (B) intensified (C) reinforced (D) exceeded

2 (A) last (B) least (C) newest (D) freshest

3 (A) all over (B) far away (C) in the offing (D) out of the bag

4 (A) compiling (B) combining (C) composing (D) compromising

5 (A)The sexual revolution, like most revolutions, has left an array of issues that did not exist before. (B)Some, perhaps many divorces, are rooted in one form or another of real or perceived sexual dissatisfaction. (C)Fifty percent of women remarry within five years of a divorce and seventy-five percent within ten. (D)So we now not uncommonly have divorce followed by remarriage—a sort of trial-and-error approach until couples finally get it right.