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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：
It can be inferred from the passage that the author and the scholars referred to in line 21 disagree about which of the following aspects of the patents defended in patent-infringement suits before 1830 ?
选项:
A、Whether the patents were granted for inventions that were genuinely useful
B、Whether the patents were actually relevant to the growth of the United States economy
C、Whether the patents were particularly likely to be annulled by judges
D、Whether the patents were routinely invalidated for reasons that were arbitrary
E、Whether the patents were vindicated at a significantly lower rate than patents in later suits
答案:
D
提问：
我错选了E，犹豫了C。。。请问正确答案是如何定位到第十行的？我做题的时候，因为看到问the author 和 the scholars disagree，觉得两方的观点都要读，以比较出不同的点。正确答案为什么可以理直气壮地认为，disagree的部分不是写在the author观点的部分（即第二段），而是写在the scholars观点的部分（第一段）呢？
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我错选了E，犹豫了C。。。请问正确答案是如何定位到第十行的？我做题的时候，因为看到问the author 和 the scholars disagree，觉得两方的观点都要读，以比较出不同的点。正确答案为什么可以理直气壮地认为，disagree的部分不是写在the author观点的部分（即第二段），而是写在the scholars观点的部分（第一段）呢？
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题目不是问 disagree about 哪一选项吗 那 应该是B 吧 因为 1830之前 law 不完善 人们不上诉 不relevant to growth of the us economy啊 。可以解释一下 每一个选项嘛？还有我的逻辑是不是错了 应该怎么思考这题？
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