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  3. The technology industry is at war over intellectual property. On May 7th the first【C1】______of a three-part fight between Oracle

The technology industry is at war over intellectual property. On May 7th the first【C1】______of a three-part fight between Oracle

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问题    The technology industry is at war over intellectual property. On May 7th the first【C1】______of a three-part fight between Oracle and Google over patent and copyright claims relating to the Java programming language ended in a decision that denied outright victory to either firm. Apple, Samsung and others are【C2】______over smartphone patents. Facebook and Yahoo! are at【C3】______over internet patents. Accusations abound【C4】______innovation is taking a【C5】______seat to lawsuits. Only the lawyers are smiling.
   All of【C6】______makes this a good time to【C7】______a new approach to trading intellectual property, says Gerard Pannekoek, the boss of IPXI, a new financial【C8】______that lets companies buy, sell and hold patent rights, just like any other【C9】______. The idea is to offer a patent or group of patents as "unit licence rights"(ULRs), which can be bought and sold like【C10】______. A ULR【C11】______a one-time right to use a particular technology in【C12】______product: a new type of airbag sensor in a car, 【C13】______. If a company wants to use the technology in 100, 000 cars, it buys 100, 000 ULRs at the market price. ULRs are also expected to be traded on secondary markets.
   This is simpler, faster and cheaper than the lawyer-intensive process of negotiating bilateral licences for intellectual property, the high cost of which discriminates【C14】______small companies, leaves patents unused on the shelf and【C15】______innovation. IPXI’s approach does not【C16】______for all types of intellectual property—it does not【C17】______exclusive licensing, for example—but should make it【C18】______for companies to make money from their inventions. "It’s a good form of funding for start-ups, " suggests Mr. Pannekoek.
   The exchange has【C19】____ 30 members including Philips, an electronics giant, and several universities and research laboratories. On May 4th IPXI published the rulebook that【C20】______how the exchange will work, and it expects to open for business later this year. Its novel approach is ideal for the open, non-exclusive licensing of smartphone-related patents, says Ruud Peters, chief intellectual-property officer at Philips.
【C9】
选项 A、property
B、estate
C、asset
D、capital
答案C
解析 本题考查名词辨析。此处为…lets companies buy，sell and hold patent rights，just like any other______，意为“专利权和其他______一样，也可以购买、出售和持有”。property强调指“(个人的)财产，所有物(a thing or things that are owned by sb．)”，asset强调指“(个人或公司所有的)资产(a thing of value that a person or company owns，which can be used or sold to pay debts)”，estate一般指“房地产，不动产”，capital指“资本”，由此可见C．asset符合题意，为正确答案。
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