On the ground floor of the patent Office is the Search Room, a vast space filled with patents.

专利局的底层是档案查阅室，宽阔的空间里堆满了专利资料。

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They work on six floors above the Search Room, their desks and floors awash in patent applications.

他们在档案查阅室楼上的6个楼面工作，办公室的桌面和地面堆满专利申请材料。

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Last year, in a case involving eBay, the court granted patent infringers more wiggle room against injunctions.

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Last year, in a case involving eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ), the court granted patent infringers more wiggle room against injunctions.

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The company started in the temperature-controls business in 1885, two years after its founder, Warren S. Johnson, a professor at the State Normal School in Whitewater, Wisconsin, received a patent for the electric room thermostat.

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