America's Supreme Court is about to issue a ruling which, by all accounts, will make it difficult, if not impossible, to get a patent for a business process.

美国最高法院即将做出裁决，一般来说要想获得商业方法方面的专利，即便不是完全不可能，也将极其艰难。

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Intelisys was founded in 1996 by Peter Rawlinson, a Brit, and Robert Barnes, a New Zealander who'd launched a software development firm and received a patent on a business process it designed.

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