Myriad Genetics received patents for methods to identify women with genes that create a high risk of breast cancer.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

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。

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We want all countries in the world to agree to respect the patents."

希望全世界都同意尊重这些药品专利“

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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

One thing about inventions is that we have something called patents.

关于发明，有个词叫做专利。

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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

They didn't think of financial inventions as worthy of patents.

他们认为金融创新算不上什么专利。

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Patents involving the two genes made Myriad the only company able to offer the costly tests.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Now,more cases will be needed to define the legal limits of business method patents.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

But federal Judge Robert Sweet cancelled seven of twenty-three patents related to the genes.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Critics say such patents block progress against disease and development of new treatments.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

He said they violate the law against patents for products of nature.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

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

VOA: special.2010.07.16

Cancer activists and researchers fought the patents.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Patents are a form of intellectual property.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

Brazil wanted to hit the U.S. where it would hurt more: by breaking patents on pharmaceuticals and copyrights on movies and software.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

Major manufacturers of generic medications, in India and Brazil, accuse the pharmaceutical industry of using the issue of counterfeiting to protect their patents.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Lang lives in the San Francisco bay area. He is a laser physicist and graduate of the California Institute of Technology, and has nearly 50 U.S.patents to his name.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

He was granted more than 600 patents. His ideas for processes or devices are used in bar-code scanners, automated warehouse manufacturing systems,fax and automated teller machines, the crying baby doll, and Sony Walkman portable cassette player.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18