Then, every year or two, inventors working for the company could come up with a slightly improved version of the technology and patent it, and the seventeen-year clock would start over.

然后，每年或每两年，为公司工作的发明人可以带来该技术的轻微改进版本，并申请专利，17年的年限也将由此重新开始计算。

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First, one had to get control of a basic patent on a new technology, and the best way of doing that was to organize a trust and buy the patent from the inventor.

首先，公司必须持有对一项新技术的基本专利控制，做到这一点的最佳方法是组织一家信托投资公司，并从发明人手中购买该专利。

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The idea is at the patent application stage, and the patent onlycovers the method but not the communications technology.

这个思想还处在专利申请阶段，并且专利只包括这种方法，而不包括其中所使用的通讯技术。

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This week, a U.S. intelligence report blamed Russia and China for hacking into private computer networks, likely seeking patent and technology information.

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For all outward appearances, both Apple and IBM made every effort to convey that both ingredients were present in their blossoming SA. Only one problem: At the time, both Apple and IBM had a number of lawsuits against each other for patent and technology infringement.

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Some of the patents were rejected because there was not enough of an inventive step between the prior technology and Apple's patent.

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