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| Line | Because the framers of the United States |
| Constitution (written in 1787) believed that protecting | |
| property rights relating to inventions would encourage | |
| the new nation’s economic growth, they gave | |
| (5) | Congress—the national legislature—a constitutional |
| mandate to grant patents for inventions. The resulting | |
| patent system has served as a model for those in | |
| other nations. Recently, however, scholars have | |
| questioned whether the American system helped | |
| (10) | achieve the framers’ goals. These scholars have |
| contended that from 1794 to roughly 1830, American | |
| inventors were unable to enforce property rights | |
| because judges were “antipatent” and routinely | |
| invalidated patents for arbitrary reasons. This | |
| (15) | argument is based partly on examination of court |
| decisions in cases where patent holders (“patentees”) | |
| brought suit alleging infringement of their patent | |
| rights. In the 1820s, for instance, 75 percent | |
| of verdicts were decided against the patentee. | |
| (20) | The proportion of verdicts for the patentee began to |
| increase in the 1830s, suggesting to these scholars | |
| that judicial attitudes toward patent rights began | |
| shifting then. | |
| Not all patent disputes in the early nineteenth | |
| (25) | century were litigated, however, and litigated |
| cases were not drawn randomly from the | |
| population of disputes. Therefore the rate of | |
| verdicts in favor of patentees cannot be used | |
| by itself to gauge changes in judicial attitudes | |
| (30) | or enforceability of patent rights. If early judicial |
| decisions were prejudiced against patentees, one | |
| might expect that subsequent courts—allegedly | |
| more supportive of patent rights—would reject | |
| the former legal precedents. But pre-1830 | |
| (35) | cases have been cited as frequently as later |
| decisions, and they continue to be cited today, | |
| suggesting that the early decisions, many of | |
| which clearly declared that patent rights were | |
| a just recompense for inventive ingenuity, | |
| (40) | provided a lasting foundation for patent law. |
| The proportion of judicial decisions in favor of | |
| patentees began to increase during the 1830s | |
| because of a change in the underlying population | |
| of cases brought to trial. This change was partly | |
| (45) | due to an 1836 revision to the patent system: |
| an examination procedure, still in use today, was | |
| instituted in which each application is scrutinized | |
| for its adherence to patent law. Previously, | |
| patents were automatically granted upon payment | |
| (50) | of a $30 fee. |
题目：
The passage implies that which of the following was a reason that the proportion of verdicts in favor of patentees began to increase in the 1830s?
选项:
A、Patent applications approved after 1836 were more likely to adhere closely to patent law.
B、Patent laws enacted during the 1830s better defined patent rights.
C、Judges became less prejudiced against patentees during the 1830s.
D、After 1836, litigated cases became less representative of the population of patent disputes.
E、The proportion of patent disputes brought to trial began to increase after 1836.
答案:
A
提问：
我定位到21行后面的suggest，错选c。是因为本题问的是作者的态度而不是学者的态度吗？
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提问：
能再麻烦张慧雯老师讲一下这篇的脉络吗？这篇文章看懂就好难T^T看懂了题里还全是陷阱啊，比如这道题我觉得E也对啊
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提问：
我定位到21行后面的suggest，错选c。是因为本题问的是作者的态度而不是学者的态度吗？
解答：
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