The patent grant is now completely separated from the license.

专利授权现已与许可完全分离。

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All rights, including rights created by patent grant or registration of a utility model or design as well as rights of technical modifications are reserved.

所有权利，其中包括授予专利权或实用新型或者外观设计的注册以及技术修改权利产生的权利均予以保留。

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For example, access to investors and capital can improve dramatically with a patent grant.

FORBES: Inventors: Take Heed Of The Revised U.S. Patent Law

Some patent examiners have been at the patent office for decades, and have a vast storehouse of knowledge regarding what has previously been described in a printed publication (and thereby serves to block a patent grant).

FORBES: Keep the Current Standard for Invalidating a Patent

Dispassionate obervers like, umm, myself, always thought that it was a pretty odd patent to grant.

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