Einstein first worked in the Swiss Patent Office in Bern before writing three scientific papers that changed the understanding of time, space and reality.

在写出三篇科学论文之前，爱因斯坦最初在瑞士专利局工作。这三篇论文改变了对时间、空间和现实的看法。

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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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The journey may lead to a dead-end such as a life of working in a patent office, or it could lead to changing people’s perception of space and time.

这些道路可能会通向死胡同，如在专利局的工作，它也可能会改变人们对时间和空间的概念。

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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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On Monday morning, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced its acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings (NYSE: MMI), perhaps in an attempt to diversify its patent portfolio and gain market share in the mobile telecommunications space.

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This is the home of the Patent Records Office, 4, 600 square meters of storage space hewn out of solid rock, the last repository of America's intellectual property.

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