PT17.S3.Q03 - patents and inventions

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• EvetteCee Alum Member

  November 2017 224 karma

  Answer choice B is irrelevant to the argument. "Less creative effort" & "intervention" are never discussed or mentioned in the argument and so are irrelevant and certainly not necessary.

  Broken down the argument is this:

  P1: The patent system originally designed to protect small-time inventors, not give large corporations control over a methodology
  +
  P2: Any comp program is the implementation of a methodology

  -->
  The move to patent computer programs (thus giving large corps. control over a methodology) should be stopped

  Because of this answer choice D is correct because if large corporations were able to hold patents for methodologies, then the argument would fall apart.

  I hope that helps!
• yeshesvini Member

  November 2017 113 karma

  isn't it invention?? less creative effort in implementation of technology as compared with true invention.....i have read another reference online citing intervention....is there a typo in the qs on the link???
• EvetteCee Alum Member

  November 2017 224 karma

  @yeshesvini said:
  isn't it invention?? less creative effort in implementation of technology as compared with true invention.....i have read another reference online citing intervention....is there a typo in the qs on the link???

  Yes! So sorry that was a typo on my part, I meant "invention".
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  akistotle Member ⭐ 🍌🍌

  November 2017 9382 karma

  @yeshesvini said:
  isn't it invention?? less creative effort in implementation of technology as compared with true invention.....i have read another reference online citing intervention....is there a typo in the qs on the link???

  (B) says "invention" (not "intervention").

  (B): Implementing a methodology → less creative effort than does true invention
  Negation: Implementing a methodology ←s→ /(less creative effort than does true invention)
  = There are cases in which implementing a methodology does not use less creative effort than does true invention.
  = There are cases in which implementing a methodology uses more creative effort than does true invention or the same amount of creative effort as does true invention.

  Why does comparing [methodology] and [true invention] matter? Even if [methodology] requires the same or more amount of creative effort than [true invention], the argument can still argue that the move to patent computer programs should be stopped. It's because the original intent of the patent system is to protect small-time investors, not to give large corporation control.

  We have to assume that giving large corporations control is bad. That's what (D) says.

  I think you are assuming that [creativity] has something to do with protecting small-time inventors. But the argument never says that.
• yeshesvini Member

  November 2017 113 karma

  brilliant!! awesome thank uuu!!!

  broke a sweat on this one....but awesome explanation cleared up the knot....

  thanks heaps!!!
• yeshesvini Member

  November 2017 113 karma

  brilliant!! awesome thank uuu!!!

  broke a sweat on this one....but awesome explanation cleared up the knot....

  thanks heaps!!!