[单项选择]Deep-fried beer may sound scrumptious, but is it patentable Mark Zable, an inventive Texan, thinks it is. To protect his novel production process, which involves encasing the alcohol in batter and dunking it in a fryer, he recently applied for a patent. He wants to profit if others exploit his beery brainwave. Without patents to protect their creations, inventors would have little incentive to invent. But some Americans fret that patent protection has grown too strong. The system breeds so many lawsuits, they worry, that it throttles the innovation it is supposed to promote.
Consider a suit filed on August 27th by Interval Licensing, a firm owned by Paul Allen, a cofounder of Microsoft. It targets everyone who is anyone in Silicon Valley, including Google, Apple, eBay, Yahoo! and Facebook. (But not Microsoft. ) It involves four patents covering inventions that improve an internet user’s online experience, such as suggestions for further reading related to a news article and pop-up
A. The system of patent protection promotes innovation.
B. Mr. Allen’s Silicon Valley research lab still exists.
C. The author believes Interval Licensing’s suit have some trollish features.
D. RPX has come up with an efficient way to reduce patent risk.