The problem is exacerbated by varying international patent laws, which both raise the cost and confuse the issue of patent protection.

特别是不同的国际专利法律，增加了成本和扰乱了专利保护。

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The central issue in the case is whether patent rights to living things extend to the progeny of those things.

这里的核心问题是生物的专利权是否延伸到这些生物的后代。

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The removal of the H.264 codec may not come as a surprise to many as Google said they would cut it out earlier this year due to a patent issue with a group of companies including Microsoft.

取消H.264解码也并不奇怪，Google说他们在今年早些时候将会剔除掉这个功能，因为涉及到包括Microsoft在内的专利问题。

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Of course, the loss of patent protection for Lipitor is one issue, and no one knows how well their pipeline drugs will be able to pick up the slack.

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The number of patent applications where this ever becomes an issue is a tiny, tiny (did I mention TINY?) percentage.

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The case hinges on whether judges should issue an injunction as a matter of course in cases of patent infringement.

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