Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: The development of new inventions is promoted by the

The development of new inventions is promoted by the granting of patent rights, which restrict the right of anyone but the patent holders to profit from these inventions for a specified period. Without patent rights, anyone could simply copy another’s invention; consequently, inventors would have no financial incentive for investing the time and energy required to develop new products. Thus, it is important to continue to grant patent rights, or else no one will engage in original development and consequently no new inventions will be forthcoming.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

(A) Financial reward is the only incentive that will beeffective in motivating people to develop new inventions. - CORRECT. If not then new inventions are possible.

(B) When an inventor sells patent rights to a manufacturer, the manufacturer makes less totalprofit on the invention than the inventor does. - WRONG. Irrelevant. Profit is not in scope.

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Statistics : Posted by unraveled • on 10 Mar 2011, 08:58 • Replies 6 • Views 10410

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