The patent is fundamental to producing carbon nanotubes, which are expected to be the building blocks of a new class of smaller, faster and lower-power computer chips.

这项专利是对碳纳米管生产至关重要，预计碳纳米管将成为更小，速度更快，能耗更低的新型计算机芯片的基石。

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Our products with new style, high class are useful and good looking, and many products get the patent.

产品新造型、高档次，集实用美观于一体，多种产品获国家专利。

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More broadly, the fact that any company can demand protection for the basic shape of a device, years before it had invented the actual device or technology, should not entitle that company to claim that it had patented the design for a smartphone any more than Richard Branson can patent business class travel in outer space.

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There are many other class action suits filed against the company since Lipitor lost its patent expiry last November.

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One of the lawyers bringing a class action suit against Google alleges that the company filed a patent for using the sort of payload data it collected, proving that this was no accident.

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