A: The Chinese translation shall be completely translated on the basis of the foreign language application document. 

     The disclosure of the Chinese translation that is out of the disclosed scope of the foreign language application document shall not be granted in the patent.

A: The specification and the figures of the foreign language application document shall completely disclose the technical solution of the claimed invention. 

The applicant shall be noticed to correct the document in a certain period if either the page number of the specification or the figure number of the figures of the foreign language application document is found to be discontinuous under the formality examination, and the legal effect and the handling solution shall follow the rule applied when the specification or the figures of a Chinese application document is found to be missed.  

The same rule shall be applied when the missing part of the foreign language application document is found by the applicant.

A: Yes, an application for trademark registration with multiple classes and claiming plural priority rights shall indicate priority date and the country (or the member of the WTO) in which the first application was made for the name of goods/services in each class. 

A trademark application with single class and claiming plural priority rights shall identify the designated goods/services with respective priority date. 

The application date of each designated goods/services is the respective priority date thereof.

A: The languages of the foreign language application document are limited to Arabic, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish.

The foreign language application document of the invention patent application shall provide specification, at least one claim and necessary drawing(s). The foreign language application document of the utility model patent application shall provide specification, at least one claim and drawing(s). The foreign language application document of the design patent application shall provide drawing(s) and specify the design name.

The Applicant must submit Chinese translation in the specified time period to obtain the filing date on which the foreign language application document is submitted. Where the Chinese translation is not submitted within the specified time period, the application shall be dismissed. However, if the Chinese translation is submitted before the dismissal decision is served, the date on which the Chinese translation is submitted shall be regarded as the filing date.

A: The Applicant, who uses the foreign patent publication(s) or the priority document(s) as the foreign language application document, shall comply with Article 4 of “regulations governing submission of foreign language application documents” to obtain the filing date on which the foreign language application document is submitted.

For example, when the priority document of the US provisional application is used as the foreign language application document, it shall be noticed that if the claim(s), or drawing(s), etc., required for obtaining the filing date, is included in the document.

A: The purpose of the foreign language application document is verifying the technical disclosure scope for obtaining the filing date and is not verifying if the format is consistent with the rules in Taiwan. Further, the foreign language application document is not allowed to be modified after being submitted.

Therefore, when the foreign language application document is not written according to the title or order regulated by “enforcement rules of the patent act”, the Applicant only needs to provide the Chinese translation complied with the rules and specify that the content does not extend beyond the disclosed scope of the foreign language application document at the filing date.  

A: Before the invention application is laid open, if any changing matter follows, when the change is applied before “completing the examination prior to laid-open”, the data being changed will be laid open; when the change is applied after “completing the examination prior to laid-open”, the data at filing will be laid open.