178. In countries in which new life-sustaining drugs cannot be patented, such drugs are sold at widely affordable prices; those same drugs, where patented, command premium prices because the patents shield patent-holding manufacturers from competitors. These facts show that future access to new life-sustaining drugs can be improved if the practice of granting patents on newly developed life-sustaining drugs were to be abolished everywhere.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
(A) In countries in which life-sustaining drugs cannot be patented, their manufacture is nevertheless a profitable enterprise. (B) Countries that do not currently grant patents on life-sustaining drugs are, for the most part, countries with large populations. (C) In some countries specific processes for the manufacture of pharmaceutical drugs can be patented even in cases in which the drugs themselves cannot be patented. (D) Pharmaceutical companies can afford the research that goes into the development of new drugs only if patents allow them to earn high profits. (E) Countries that grant patents on life-sustaining drugs almost always ban their importation from countries that do not grant such patents Choice C is incorrect since the possibility of patenting manufacturing processes introduces some limitation to the benefits of abolishing patents on the drugs, but does not mean that there would be no benefits. (C) In some countries specific processes for the manufacture of pharmaceutical drugs can be patented even in cases in which the drugs themselves cannot be patented. 下面我只是就事论事,说说C选项~~我也是想了好久呢~~一点愚见o~~ 这题的目的是weaken 消除pantent-->更多的access to new drug.也就是说我们要weaken 消除patent have benefits 如果我们找到了消除patent会导致no benifit,即找到了答案 C的意思是 在一些国家,specific processes for the manufacture of pharmaceutical drugs 可以被patented,尽管由这些processes做出来的药本身在某些情况下并不能patented. 一些自身不能被patented的药,却可以对治药的processes进行patent,为什么自身不能被patent呢?因为patent这些药得权利被政府abolish了,但即使药的patent权利被abolish了,对制造这些药的processes还是可以patent得,所以就说明了patent还是有点好处的(因为只有patent是有利的,政府才会去patent,我觉得理解这点比较的重要),也就是OG里面说的limitation to the benefits of abolishing patents on the drugs.但是虽然可以patent制药的过程有点好处的,但是我们并不能推出abolish patents on the drugs就一点好处都没有了~~我觉得这个可能就是OG的解释的意思吧 不过我觉得C完全可以当作无关选项来处理,因为提干和process是没有关系的,考试的时候如果这样想,会疯的~~
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