Let E : y(2) = (x - e(1))(x - e(2))(x - e(3)), be a nonconstant elliptic curve over Q(T). We give sufficient conditions for a specialization homomorphism to be injective, based on the unique factorization in Z[T] and Z. The result is applied for calculating exactly the Mordell-Weil group of several elliptic curves over Q(T) coming from a paper by Rubin and Silverberg.