For Edison as an inventor, novelty was always paramount: the overriding goal of the business of innovation was simply to generate funding for new inventions.
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依据团队的经验和项目的新颖性程度,这些估计差不多是正式的。
These estimates can be more or less formal depending on the team's experience and the project's degree of novelty.
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要获得专利,发明必须具备新颖性、实用性和非显易见性。
To be patentable an invention must be novel, useful and non-obvious.