#17 - Concept Reference, Must Be True

[KG!]

Can someone help to explain this question? I chose answer choice B.

[Adam Tyson]

Look at this one like a Parallel Reasoning question if that helps, KG! The passage already described something similar to this hypothetical case in the last paragraph, where they describe a poet dictating to a friend who writes the poetry down. The last sentence of the passage tells us that in that case, under the tangible-object theory (which the author doesn't seem to particularly like or agree with), the friend who wrote it down would be the owner of the poem, rather than the poet who created it.

Following that reasoning, then, we should predict that our author would say the engineer who drafted the specs and actually built the prototype would be the exclusive owner of the invention "under the tangible-object theory of intellectual property" even though the inventor came up with the idea. That's answer A. Answer B is probably what our author would want to be true, but it would not be the case "under the tangible-object theory of intellectual property" as the question asks.