但是1990年公司破产，它所有的专利产品都卖给了当时新兴的电脑制造厂商美国升阳电脑公司。

But the firm filed for bankruptcy in 1990, and all its patents were sold to Sun Microsystems, then a rising computer-maker.

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Traditionally, financial inventions were not granted patent rights, but now in the United States and in a number of other countries it has become possible to patent financial inventions.

传统的金融产品,是没有专利的,但现在,在美国,和其他的一些国家中,金融产品也拥有了专利

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