Google has also (famously) patented a floating wave-powered server farm, which would not only be co-located with its power source but would also be totally sustainable.

Google还拥有浮标式波浪发电服务器集群的专利(非常著名)，该服务器集群不仅可以和发电站位于相同位置，而且在资金上也完全可以承受得起。

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This new type patented equipment is successfully applied not only to the disinfection and sterilization of the drinking water, but also to the treatment of domestic and...

这种新型专利设备不仅可应用于饮用水消毒灭菌，而且也适用于生活污水和工业废水的处理。

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Hopefully, as the FTC and DOJ hold more workshops, they will follow this example, abandoning rhetoric and instead calmly investigating how the patent system produces dynamic innovation, not just in products and services, but also in the many new business models that arise from this patented innovation itself.

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Mr. Bascom may indeed have invented and patented the technology, but the costs of invention and patenting of this sort of technology are likely not anywhere near the cost of prosecuting an infringement action or defending a declaratory judgment action.

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But, strangely, because software is really a form of idea rather than mechanical function, the patented software is not strictly limited to the original hardware implementation it was conceived for.

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