首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Remember Napster or Grokster? Both services allowed users to share computer files—usually digital music—that infringed the copyr
Remember Napster or Grokster? Both services allowed users to share computer files—usually digital music—that infringed the copyr
admin
2019-08-08
61
问题
Remember Napster or Grokster? Both services allowed users to share computer files—usually digital music—that infringed the copyrights for those songs. Now imagine that, instead of music, you could download a physical object. Sounds like something from a sci-fi movie—push a button and there’s the item! But that scenario is already becoming a reality with the help of 3D printers. 【F1】
We can download a computer file, called a computer-aided design (CAP) file, that instructs the printer to make a physical, three-dimensional object.
Because CAD files are digital, they can be shared across the internet on file-sharing services, just like movies and music. Just as digital media challenged the copyright system with rampant copyright infringement, the patent system likely will encounter widespread infringement of patented inventions through 3D printing. 【F2】
The problem is, however, that the patent system is even more ill-equipped to deal with this situation than copyright law was, posing a challenge to a key component of our innovation system.
Patents are actual documents issued by the federal government. They’re awarded for inventions that are nontrivial advances in the state of the art. A patent allows the owner to prevent others from making, using, selling or importing the invention. 【F3】
These exclusive rights help keep competitors out of the market, allowing the patent owner to recover R&D costs.
The owner also can use the patent to support efforts to commercialize the invention.
Each printed copy of an invention is a lost potential sale to the patent holder. Alternatively, patent owners could go after the people facilitating the infringement. The Patent Act permits a patent holder to sue parties who induce others to infringe. 【F4】
Potential inducers of patent infringement here could be the sellers of the 3D printers, someone providing CAD files of the patented device, or websites that sell or share various CAD files that instruct the 3D printer to make the patented invention.
Copyright law similarly prohibits inducement of infringement. The same idea could apply in the patent context.
But there is a huge problem with this approach: inducement of patent infringement requires actual knowledge of the relevant patent. For music, everyone knows the songs are copyrighted. Not everyone is aware that a particular device is covered by a patent. There are hundreds of thousands of patents in existence. 【F5】
It’s highly unlikely that potential inducers would have actual knowledge of every patent that could be infringed by use of a 3D printer.
【F5】
选项
答案
让潜在诱使者了解所有因使用3D打印机而遭到侵权的专利品,这太不可能了。
解析
①本句为主从复合句,包含一个主语从句和一个定语从句。②主句是主系表结构,It是形式主语,真正的主语是that引导的主语从句。③句末that引导的定语从句修饰的是主语从句中的every patent,说明这是因使用3D打印机打印而专利权受到侵犯的专利品。此定语从句是一个由be done和介词短语by…构成的完整的被动句。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/5J2Z777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Weoftentendtoassociatesmilingastheresultofapositiveeventormood.Butresearchdemonstratesthattheactofsmiling,
Robotshavebeenthestuffofsciencefictionforsolongthatitissurprisinglyhardtoseethemasthestuffofmanagementfa
ThebastionofexcellenceinAmericaneducationisbeingdestroyedbystatebudgetcutsandmountingcosts.Whateverelseitis,
Speakingtwolanguagesratherthanjustonehasobviouspracticalbenefits.Inrecentyears,scientistshavebeguntoshowthat
Todaywe’retoldthattobegreatistobebold,tobehappyistobesociable.Infact,one-thirdtoone-halfofAmericansare
Todaywe’retoldthattobegreatistobebold,tobehappyistobesociable.Infact,one-thirdtoone-halfofAmericansare
In2016,manyshoppersoptedtoavoidthefreneticcrowdsanddotheirholidayshoppingfromthecomfortoftheircomputer.But
Thelast-minutevictoryoftheTexasLonghornsinthisyear’sRoseBowl—America’scollegefootballchampionship—wasthekindof
Comparisonsweredrawnbetweenthedevelopmentoftelevisioninthe20thcenturyandthediffusionofprintinginthe15thand1
Childrenmodelthemselveslargelyontheirparents.Theydosomainlythroughidentification.Childrenidentify【C1】______aparen
随机试题
当x→0时,下列变量是无穷小量的是()
根据生物对环境中含氧量的适应范围,可分为( )、( )两类。
男,65岁,高血压病史18年,近日有时夜间出现胸闷,并有频发的阵发性室上性心动过速,此时宜选用
护士刘某,护士执业注册时间是2005年11月30日。2007年3月至2011年7月因某种原因中断护士执业活动,2011年12月其又到某医院从事护理工作,需要执业注册,其应申请的是
通常较厚的、不怕碰撞的工件除锈宜采用()。
采用“方上”、“宝城宝顶”、“以山为陵”封土形制的帝王陵墓依次是()。
新课程标准向我们提出:对未来人才的培养要着力于以创新精神和实践能力为重点的全面素质的展,树立()的理念。
一、注意事项1.申论考试,是对分析驾驭材料能力、提出和解决问题能力、文字表达能力的测试。2.作答参考时限:阅读资料40分钟,作答110分钟。3.仔细阅读给定的材料,然后按申论要求依次作答,答案书写在指定的位置。二、给定资料
根据《民法通则》规定,如果公民在战争期间下落不明,申请宣告其失踪的法定期间应自()起计算。
A.哨音B.恶心C.咬颊D.咬舌E.弹响上颌义齿基托后缘伸展过长()。
最新回复
(
0
)