GWD 8的阅读--专利

vanessav

这一题没有一个大家公认最适合的答案么，

A虽然说看起来似乎没问题，可是这个a decade later似乎有点问题——文中说的都是82－92年中间的事情，不应该牵涉到那以后或者之前。

我觉得C反倒有理由。C：It changed between 1982 and 1992 in ways that were linked to changes in research and development expenditures.
 

原文：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. （说明expenditure for R&D有了变化，因为研发的投入少了，公司从这部分开支中拨了部分出来to squeeze out more patent，导致数量虽然增加了。但是质量下降了。）

当然如果这么说，B也可以说得过去，可是说道largely independent，这之间的相互关系有点迷糊了，文中似乎没有说过patent的数量和质量本来是interdependent的。

这题还是open to discussion

[此贴子已经被作者于2006-6-15 0:47:18编辑过]

titatita

以下是引用vanessav在2006-6-15 0:46:00的发言：

这一题没有一个大家公认最适合的答案么，

A虽然说看起来似乎没问题，可是这个a decade later似乎有点问题——文中说的都是82－92年中间的事情，不应该牵涉到那以后或者之前。

我觉得C反倒有理由。C：It changed between 1982 and 1992 in ways that were linked to changes in research and development expenditures.
 

原文：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. （说明expenditure for R&D有了变化，因为研发的投入少了，公司从这部分开支中拨了部分出来to squeeze out more patent，导致数量虽然增加了。但是质量下降了。）

当然如果这么说，B也可以说得过去，可是说道largely independent，这之间的相互关系有点迷糊了，文中似乎没有说过patent的数量和质量本来是interdependent的。

这题还是open to discussion

agree with u

lexie

这道题文章中有直接的答案

Moreover, Ziedonis and Hall found that as patenting (30) activity at semiconductor firms increased in the 7 1980’s, the consensus among industry employees was that the average quality (35) of their firms’ patents declined. Though patent quality is a difficult notion to measure, the number of times a patent is cited in (40) the technical literature is a reasonable yardstick, and citations per semiconductor patent did decline during the 1980’s. This decline in (45) quality may be related to changes in the way semiconductor firms managed their patenting process:

黄线部分反向指代前面提过的东东 citation是衡量patent quality的yardstick 那么the number of citation declined , and hence the patent quality declined...文章中很清楚地给出来time--during the 1980's 所以A

vivianwsp198

Q8

The passage suggests which of the following about patenting in the semiconductor industry during the period from 1982 to 1992 ?

A. The declining number of citations per semiconductor patent in the technical literature undermines
                the notion that patenting activity increased during this period. 原文说的质量的notion,不是专利行动

B. A decline in patent quality forced firms to change the way they managed the patenting process. 同意改写

C. Increased efficiencies allowed firms to derive more patents from existing research and development expenditures. 没提到

D. Firms’ emphasis on filing patents for strategic purposes may have contributed to a decline in patent quality.

E. Firms’ attempts to derive more patents from existing research and development expenditures may have contributed to a decline in infringement suites. 减少了专利，也不是为了降低侵权诉讼

想问一下为何D不对，虽然我选了B

caterpillarcn

Yes, it should be B. the decline in average quality of the patent does not necessarily means that the patents are lower in quality.

jesdy

还是不明白c为什么不对

我的根据是这段话

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.

jesdy

ding

benja

原本选A的，现在又觉得C比较合适，天啦，快要考试了

prosignia

支持B

A那个decade later不对，
问中说1982和1992间专利质量下降。当然后面的时间和前面的时间对比，90之后的情况文章没说把。

jean1280

支持C！！