First, one had to get control of a basic patent on a new technology, and the best way of doing that was to organize a trust and buy the patent from the inventor.

首先，公司必须持有对一项新技术的基本专利控制，做到这一点的最佳方法是组织一家信托投资公司，并从发明人手中购买该专利。

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When you get an idea before any one else, you take out a patent on it: it is yours.

当你首先想出了一个办法，你就去领一个专利证，这个办法就是属于你的。

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When two people apply for a patent on the same invention, the first person to have filed his application will get the patent (assuming the invention is patentable, of course).

若两名当事人就同一个发明分别申请专利权，那么率先提出申请者将获得该专利权（假设 该发明确认是具有可专利性的）。

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"The Supreme Court has said, for example, if Albert Einstein determined that E = mc squared -- which he did -- he never would have been able to get a patent on that.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

We had out of Norway, a program where a student developed a new type of ski sock that had a special padding in it, and was actually able to get a patent on that and has taken it to market and been very successful.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

Before, if we could just get a patent on the initial compound, we felt we were home free.

BBC: Protecting that great idea with a patent

Perhaps now we know exactly why it's not so big here in the States because somebody, somehow, managed to get a patent on the idea.

ENGADGET: Mobile carriers lose patent suit on prepaid calling plans

They can get patent reform done and they can move forward on a number of other issues.

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