America's Supreme Court is about to issue a ruling which, by all accounts, will make it difficult, if not impossible, to get a patent for a business process.

美国最高法院即将做出裁决，一般来说要想获得商业方法方面的专利，即便不是完全不可能，也将极其艰难。

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Without such governments, aid will do nothing but build roads to nowhere and pad the Swiss bank accounts of the ruling kleptocrats.

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But others in the ruling establishment may treasure their overseas bank accounts and the loot they regularly extract from the Iranian economy more than their president's deadly ideological fervor.

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