PrepTest 139, Section 3, Question 20
Passage A is from a 2007 article on(491 more words not shown)
Passage A(300 more words not shown)
Passage B(199 more words not shown)
In terms of what it(28 more words not shown)
- Anonobvious (first sentence(3 more words not shown)
- Binvent around (first(8 more words not shown)
- Clowered the bar(9 more words not shown)
- Dcredible deterrent (second(8 more words not shown)
- Emodular components (first(8 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Read backward from “this same stance.” B has just described developing a corresponding patent portfolio for defensive purposes and says other software makers do that. The company is choosing the same protection.
What we’re looking for
In A, that portfolio works by making a potential opponent worry about a countersuit. We need the phrase naming that defensive effect, not a phrase about what qualifies for a patent or how software is constructed.
Working the answers
- A
Nonobvious concerns the supposed standard for receiving a patent. It does not name the company's decision to acquire a defensive portfolio.
- B
Inventing around a patent means developing a noninfringing alternative. B's stance is to obtain patents of its own, not merely to work around competitors' inventions.
- C
Lowering the bar describes how courts made patent protection easier to obtain. That is part of the background problem, not the protective response B adopts.
- DCorrect
A portfolio creates a “credible deterrent” because a lawsuit can trigger a countersuit. That is the protection B seeks through its corresponding collection of patents.
- E
Modular components are the pieces from which software products are assembled. They help explain why software may touch many patents; they are not the components of a defensive business strategy.
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