PrepTest 144 - Section 1 - Passage 2 - Question 13

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The following passage was adapted from a law journal article published in 1998.

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Intro topic · Intellectual property protection for biotech discoveries

Both industries and academia support protection.

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Question · How much does patenting in biotech hinder basic research?

Other people's (OP) perspective · Patents hinder basic research through enforcement of patent rights or through contractual agreements

This isn't necessarily the author's view, because of the phrase "perceived threat." We're getting other people's perception of the threat.

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Potential way patents slow research · Patent infringement

Patent holders might sue or threaten to sue researchers who use patented biological materials.

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Potential way patents slow research · Contractual agreements

Patent holders might charge researchers incredibly high fees or want other benefits in return for allowing use of patented biological materials.

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The author would likely believe that the researcher probably wouldn’t have the patent enforced against her. This is based on the author’s skepticism that a patent “could or would be enforced against a researcher” who is conducting “basic and noncommercial research.”

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We don’t know whether the author believes corporations would demand prohibitively high fees. Other researchers fear that this would happen, but we don’t know the author’s opinion about the likelihood of this.

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This is the opposite of what the author thinks. The author would likely believe that the researcher probably wouldn’t have the patent enforced against her. This is based on the author’s skepticism that a patent “could or would be enforced a researcher” who is conducting “basic and noncommercial research.”

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There’s no evidence the author thinks the university would take any action to restrict the research.

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Supported, because the author would likely believe that the researcher probably wouldn’t have the patent enforced against her. This is based on the author’s skepticism that a patent “could or would be enforced against a researcher” who is conducting “basic and noncommercial research.”

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There’s no evidence the author thinks the corporation is likely to fund the research. The mere fact that the corporation might profit from the research does not imply the author thinks the corporation would fund the research.

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