That's too abstract." In the Bilski case, the court said patent examiners could consider what is known as the machine-or-transformation test.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

So if you have a great idea, you know, talk to a good patent attorney and get it locked away.

所以当你有个好点子的时候，你们知道的，找个专利代理人,然后把它好好藏起来吧。

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So basically, what he wants us to do is redesign this and produce something better and then possibly patent that.

所以，医生希望我们能重新设计这种仪器，发明出更加先进的仪器，有可能的话，还可以申请专利。

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Such patents already exist. In March,for example, after re-examination, Amazon.com received a patent for its one-click ordering process.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

It happened in the late 1990s, in the United States, that patent offices started to accept financial patents.

美国是在上世纪九十年代末期的时候，专利局才开始授予金融专利。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A patent forbids others from copying an invention and makes the invention valuable in the world of business.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

I forget who--it may have been Charles Seller who said if you want to see the Market Revolution happening go study the Archives of the U.S. Patent Office.

我忘了是谁说的,大概是查尔斯.塞勒,他说,若你想看看市场革命是怎么发生的,就去研究美国专利局的档案吧

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Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw wanted to patent a method to let traders protect against the risk of price changes in energy markets.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

It came to a head recently over drug patent laws.

最近尤为突出的，是在药品专利法上。

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But since the late nineteen nineties, inventors of business methods and processes have increasingly sought patent protection.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

Traditionally, financial inventions were not granted patent rights, but now in the United States and in a number of other countries it has become possible to patent financial inventions.

传统的金融产品,是没有专利的,但现在,在美国,和其他的一些国家中,金融产品也拥有了专利

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"The Supreme Court held that there is no categorical rule denying patent protection for business method patents."

VOA: special.2010.07.16

Now, we're starting to see patent offices accepting financial devices.

不过现在我们渐渐发现,专利局也开始认可金融工具了。

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The question was whether a business method is enough of an invention to receive a patent.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

Well, and sometimes that "O America" Meant the tinkerer, it meant the inventor, it meant the guy who invented a new kind of sewing machine and took it in for a patent.

有时候这个《啊,美国》,意味着工艺师,意味着发明者,意味着 发明新型缝纫机,并将它申请专利的人

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In its ruling, the court decided against the patent only because the idea was too abstract.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

The idea of putting wheels on suitcases goes back only to 1972 and it was Bernard Sadow who invented-- this is amazing, right--the wheeled suitcase and he got a patent on it.

在行李箱上加轮子的想法,可以追溯到1972年2,是伯纳德？沙度发明的-,这很神奇，对吧,并且他凭此获得了专利。

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Judge Sweet said the patent office thinks DNA should be treated like any other chemical compound.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

In eighteen seventy-three, Strauss and Davis received a patent to officially own this invention.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Patent lawyer Meredith Martin Addy in Chicago explains that the court ruled narrowly.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

The patent holder can demand payment for the right to its use.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

"You can have that test, but it can't be an exclusive test because of the nature of the patent laws which are to protect new and unknown inventions."

VOA: special.2010.07.16

Patent lawyer Meredith Martin Addy says no one wants to suppress creativity.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

But a majority of justices said patent examiners must also protect innovation.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

But they only said no to a patent in this case.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

When patent laws were first developed, most patents were for machines.

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office said no.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

"The Supreme Court has said, for example, if Albert Einstein determined that E = mc squared -- which he did -- he never would have been able to get a patent on that.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

She says genetic modification is hugely expensive and patent heavy, which means the industry is dominated by large multi-national corporations.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Until its patent expired in 2008, it was ranked 20th among the 100 best selling drugs in the world.

VOA: standard.2010.03.14