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 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 profit-making corporations.（D）

(E) Logos University is unlikely to attract corporate sponsorship of its scientific research.

a也应该可以呀，要买专利的公司自己都独家赞助科研了，就不需要再买了。请指教

题干里已经把“ when those patents result from government-sponsored university research”作为条件了，A中说的这个与整个句子应该是无关。

进一步说，既便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.，又怎么样呢？这与大学准备将通过政府资助获得的科研成果出售有什么关系吗？

(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.

ongoing university research projects.

这说明有更多的钱了阿,也没有说研究成功还要不要买,所以不对

偶试着理解一下，觉得A是加强，A是说企业对学校的这些专利感兴趣，会因此而资助，卖专利的计划可行。

D是说：这些学校想卖出给公司以求得赢利的那些成果，其副本已经被这些公司获得，也就是说这些公司不需要再花钱去买学校的这些成果了。偶题目看明白了，但选项也读不太懂，朦胧的感觉是这样。

E倒是GMAT的一个标准的削弱类的混淆选项。

高人指正！