GWD-8-10,好像没有人问过

bobochen

The system of patent-
  granting, which confers
  temporary monopolies for
Line  the exploitation of new tech-
  (5)  nologies, was originally
established as an incentive
to the pursuit of risky new
ideas.  Yet studies of the
most patent-conscious
(10)  business of all—the semi-
conductor industry—suggest
that firms do not necessarily
become more innovative as
they increase their patenting
(15)  activity.  Ziedonis and Hall,
for example, found that
investment in research and
development (a reasonable
proxy for innovation) did
(20)  not substantially increase
  between 1982 and 1992,
  the industry’s most feverish
period of patenting.  Instead,
semiconductor firms simply
(25)  squeezed more patents out
of existing research and
development expenditures.

Moreover, Ziedonis and
Hall found that as patenting
activity at semiconductor
firms increased in the

1980’s, the consensus
among industry employees
was that the average quality
   of their firms’ patents
declined.  Though patent
quality is a difficult notion
to measure, the number of
times a patent is cited in
  the technical literature is
a reasonable yardstick, and
citations per semiconductor
patent did decline during
the 1980’s.  This decline in
quality may be related to
changes in the way semi-
conductor firms managed
their patenting process:
rather than patenting to win
exclusive rights to a valuable
new technology, patents
were filed more for strategic
purposes, to be used as
bargaining chips to ward
off infringement suites or

as a means to block
competitors’ products.

Q10:
Which of the following, if true, would most clearly serve to weaken the author’s claim
about what constitutes a reasonable yardstick for measuring patent quality?

A.  It is more difficult to have an article accepted for publication in the technical
literature of the semiconductor industry than it is in the technical literature of
most other industries.
B.  Many of the highest-quality semiconductor patents are cited numerous times in
the technical literature.
C.  It is difficult for someone not familiar with the technical literature to recognize
what constitutes an innovative semiconductor patent.
D.  There were more citations made per semiconductor patent in the technical
literature in the 1970’s than in the 1980’s.
E.  Low-quality patents tend to be discussed in the technical literature as frequently
as high-quality patents.

正确答案选E, 是否从文章划线部分得出？怎莫看出是WEAKEN?

bobochen

自己顶一下，最近我问的问题好像老是没有人回答，是问的太水了，还是....我查了这题没有人问过！

bobochen

继续顶！

rakesun

LZ，这题确实是比较简单的题目。你肯定是一时马虎了。

就是从你画线的那部分推倒出来的。

那部分说，被引用的次数是说明专利质量的指标。

其含义就是只有高质量的专利才能被引用。

E说低质量的专利也经常被引用，非常明确的削弱，说明引用次数不能用来作为判断质量好坏的指标。

bobochen

明白，确实大意了。谢谢，斑竹！