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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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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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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