In June, the twins abandoned their plans to appeal to the Supreme court for an unwinding of their 2008 settlement, and followed up a day later with a new motion in Boston federal court.

6月，针对退出2008年和解协议一案，双胞胎兄弟决定不再上诉至最高法院。不过仅仅一天之后，他们又在波士顿联邦法院提起新的诉讼。

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The Federal Circuit (America's centralised court of appeal, established in 1982 to hear, among numerous other things, patent disputes) has been responsible for a number of bizarre rulings.

联邦巡回上诉法院是美国的中央上诉法院，成立于1982年，其审理上诉案件的范围也包括专利纠纷。它也要对大量离奇的裁决负责。

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If a party appeals its case from the federal trial court to a court of appeals, the courts of appeal must adjudicate the case, so long as the jurisdictional requirements are satisfied.

如果某一当事人从联邦初审法院向上诉法院提出上诉，只要案件符合管辖权要求，上诉法院就必须受理。

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But on June 18th the federal appeal court ruled against the farmers.

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The 2:1 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit also might set up yet another fight between the highest court of appeal for patents and the U.S. Supreme Court, which forced the Federal Circuit to reconsider Myriad after reversing the lower court on another landmark case this year.

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