If, on the other hand, you are making a new drug, it costs an incredible amount to invent your first pill. But then it's nearly free to copy it millions of times.

另一方面，如果你是在制造一种新药，那么发明第一片药的成本大得惊人，可是接下来数百万次复制生产该药物的成本几乎为零。

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Yet it was a young boy living on an American farm who was the first person to invent and design what became television.

然而，这项发明却是由一个生活在美国农场的小孩完成了，他是人类第一个发明并设计出后来成为电视装置的人。

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Now, they are awarded to the first to invent a product or idea.

现在，第一个制造出或提出发明的人会获得奖励。

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Under the pre-AIA first-to-invent rules, Company A can get the patent because its employee invented first.

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Patent applications filed before that date can still realize the benefits of the first-to-invent system.

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The America Invents Act, signed into law in September, will transition the patent application process from the first-to-invent system, to the new first-to-file system.

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