The device was protected by patent.

这一装置受专利保护。

P&G applied for a patent on its cookies.

宝洁公司为其饼干申请了专利。

He knows his way around the intricate maze of patent law.

他通晓错综复杂的专利法。

It was 100 years ago this week that the bottle earned a patent.

就在100年前的这一周，这个瓶子获得了专利。

Monsanto accused Bowman of patent infringement and won an $ 84,456 damage award.

Monsanto 指控鲍曼侵犯专利权，从而得到了84456美元的赔偿金。

By 1957, she had sold 100 bottles a month and had gotten a patent for her product.

到1957年，她已经每月售出100瓶，并获得了产品专利。

Patent Office grants a patent, it is confirming that the intellectual property is unique.

专利局授予专利，是在确认知识产权的唯一性。

The government has given the Maryland teenager patent rights to the pancreatic caner test.

政府已经授予马里兰青年胰腺癌测试的专利权。

The central issue in the case is whether patent rights to living things extend to the progeny of those things.

这里的核心问题是生物的专利权是否延伸到这些生物的后代。

Have we really gotten to the point that planting a seed can lead to a high-stakes Supreme Court patent lawsuit?

播下一颗种子可能会引起最高法院的一场事关重大的专利诉讼，我们真的已经到了这个地步了吗？

Meanwhile, Alexander Graham Bell was working on the same idea and in 1876 the patent for the telephone was given to him.

与此同时，亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔也在研究同样的想法。1876年，他获得了电话的专利。

They are also hoping the court's ruling will rein in patent law, which is increasingly being used to claim new life forms as private property.

他们还希望最高法院的裁决将遏制专利法，专利法越来越多地被用来将新的生命形式划为私有财产。

Today, most graduates end up working outside academia, not only in industry but also in careers such as science policy, communications, and patent law.

今天，大多数毕业生最终都在学术界之外工作——不仅在工业领域，而且还有科学政策、通信和专利法等职业领域。

Part of the problem is that almost two decades after Amazon filed the one-click patent, the online retail shopping and buying experience is filled with frictions.

部分问题在于，在亚马逊申请一键式专利后近二十年，人们对在线零售购物和购买体验提出了不少问题。

Between 1896, when he applied for his first patent in England at the age of 22, and his death in Italy in 1937, Marconi was at the center of every major innovation in electronic communication.

1896年，22岁的马可尼在英国申请了他的第一项专利，1937年，他在意大利去世。在此期间，马可尼是电子通信领域每一项重大创新的中心人物。

He wore patent leather shoes.

他穿着漆革鞋。

This was patent nonsense.

这显然是一派胡言。

It was a patent lie.

那是赤裸裸的谎言。

I really thought I was something when I wore that hat and my patent leather shoes.

当我戴上那顶帽子，穿着我的漆皮鞋的时候，我还真以为自己是个人物。

When he finally sent details of his invention to the Patent Office on February 14th, 1876, it was too late.

当他终于在1876年2月14日将他发明的细节寄给专利局时，已经太晚了。

That must be patent leather!

那一定是漆皮做的！

Even the Volkswagen rear engine car was anticipated by a 1904 patent for a cart with the horse at the rear.

早在1904年，人们就已经预见到了大众汽车的后置引擎汽车。

Studies of the most patent-conscious business of all—the semiconductor industry—suggest that firms do not necessarily become more innovative as they increase their patenting activity.

对所有行业中最具专利意识的行业——半导体行业的研究表明，企业不一定会随着专利申请活动的增加而变得更具创新性。

The system of patent-granting, which confers temporary monopolies for the exploitation of new technologies, was originally established as an incentive to the pursuit of risky new ideas.

专利授予制度为开发新技术提供了暂时的垄断地位，它最初的建立是为了激励人们追求有风险的新想法。

The judges applied the laches and equitable estoppel to patent laches in America.

法官们将“懈怠”和“衡平法禁止反言”应用于美国的专利懈怠。

Fukuzawa Yukichi introduced the concept of the patent to Japan in his 1867 writings.

福泽谕吉在他1867年的著作中将专利的概念引入到日本。

Patent lawyers are also intrigued.

专利律师也很感兴趣。