PT151 S3 Q3 ExplanationDario: The government should continue

Answer choices, explained

1. A

   Both Agree1% picked this

   pharmaceutical companies should be rewarded for

   This answer doesn't sound like what we were looking for (which is whether minor variants of previously existing drugs should be granted patents). It seems like both parties agree that pharmaceutical companies should be rewarded for pursuing innovation. Cynthia would just say when it comes to these minor variants, they're not truly innovative, so they don't need patent protection.

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2. B

   Correct95% picked this

   patents should be granted for all

   Why this is right

   We knew that Cynthia disagree with Dario's first explicit claim, and this is Dario's first explicit claim! If this were later in the LR section, LSAC would probably try to disguise this answer more. Dario would obviously agree with this answer since he explicitly says this. Cynthia would disagree with this. She doesn't think all drug compounds should be granted patents, only those that are truly innovative.

   Skill tested: Agree/Disagree · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

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3. C

   Both Agree1% picked this

   developing truly innovative drugs is

   Both speakers seems to agree with this idea. Dario talks about the "costly research" to develop new drugs and and Cynthia says "it is much more expensive to develop a wholly new drug than to tweak an existing one".

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4. D

   Out of Scope Speaker 11% picked this

   pharmaceutical companies have an incentive to create minor variants of

   Both people would presumably agree with this. They would disagree about whether patents should be granted for minor variants, but they would probably agree that pharmaceutical companies have an incentive to create minor variants.

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5. E

   Both Agree2% picked this

   drug patents can promote

   Dario says that "patents promote innovation" and Cynthia says, "Promoting innovation is important. For this reason, patents should be granted for X", which implies that she also thinks of patents as promoting innovation.

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