23. A new law gives ownership of patents—documents providing exclusive right to make and sell an invention—to universities, not the government, when those patents result from government-sponsored university research. Administrators at Logos University plan to sell any patents they acquire to corporations in order to fund programs to improve undergraduate teaching.
Which of the following, if true, would cast the most doubt on the viability of the college administrators' plan described above?

A、 Profit-making corporations interested in developing products based on patents held by universities are likely to try to serve as exclusive sponsors of ongoing university research projects.
B、 Corporate sponsors of research in university facilities are entitled to tax credits under new federal tax-code guidelines.
C、 Research scientists at Logos University have few or no teaching responsibilities and participate little if at all in the undergraduate programs in their field.
D、 Government-sponsored research conducted at Logos University for the most part duplicates research already completed by several profitmaking corporations.
E、 Logos University is unlikely to attract corporate sponsorship of its scientific research.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】 Evaluation of a Plan
Situation Universities own the patents resulting from government-sponsored research at their institutions.
One university plans to sell its patents to corporations to fund a program to improve teaching.
Reasoning Which point casts doubt on the university's plan? The university's plan assumes there will be a market
for its patents, and that the corporations will want to buy them. What might make this untrue?
If some of the corporations have already done the same or similar research, they will not be
prospective buyers of the university's patents.
A This point is irrelevant to the plan to sell patents in order to fund a program.
B The university plans to sell the patents to the corporations, not to invite the corporations to sponsor research.
C This point is irrelevant to the university's plan to sell off patents since the plan does not specify that the research scientists will be involved in the programs to improve undergraduate teaching.
D Correct. This statement properly identifies a factor that casts doubt on the university's plan to sell its patents to corporations.
E The plan concerns selling patents resulting from government-sponsored research, not attracting corporate sponsorship for research.
The correct answer is D.