1 Under what circumstance should the R.O.C. Specific Patent Agency accept the patent applicationfiled by a foreign applicant?
(A) If the foreign applicant’s home country is a contracting state to an international treaty for the protection of the patent right to which the R.O.C. is not a contracting state.
(B) If the foreign applicant’s home country concludes with the R.O.C. an agreement for nonreciprocal protection of patent rights.
(C) If there is a patent protection agreement concluded by and between organizations or institutions of the R.O.C. and the foreign applicant’s home country and approved by the respective competent authorities.
(D) If the laws of the foreign applicant’s home country do not accept patent applications filed by R.O.C. nationals.