The patent states that with “increasing vehicle usage there may bemore traffic and longer wait times at traffic signals,” resulting in wastedfuel if the vehicle engines are kept running.

这项专利宣称，“随着汽车使用率的上升，在红绿灯前等候的车流量可能将会越来越多，等候时间将会越来越长”，如果等候时汽车的引擎仍然还在运转的话，那么将导致大量的燃料被浪费。

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This matters because the price of a given drug falls by more than 85% within a year of patent expiry in competitive markets like the United States.

之所以强调这一点，是因为在美国这样的竞争市场中，某一种药品的价格在专利到期的一年中下滑幅度超过了85%。

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In that area, Japan is still slightly ahead of the United States by some measures, though Japan's patent filing pace is slowing.

在此方面，日本所采取的某些手段仍稍稍领先于美国，尽管日本专利申请的步伐还很缓慢。

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office said no.

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It happened in the late 1990s, in the United States, that patent offices started to accept financial patents.

美国是在上世纪九十年代末期的时候，专利局才开始授予金融专利。

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Traditionally, financial inventions were not granted patent rights, but now in the United States and in a number of other countries it has become possible to patent financial inventions.

传统的金融产品,是没有专利的,但现在,在美国,和其他的一些国家中,金融产品也拥有了专利

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Despite the gauntlet that is the United States Patent and Trademark Office, many of the trademarks which are allowed by the Trademark Office are opposed by some competitor in an administrative law tribunal because they feel the mark violated one of the rules of registration.

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And in the meantime, BlackBerry is relying on very recent rulings that are coming out of the United States Patent Office, who are re-evaluating the patents held by NTP and saying, at least preliminarily, that these patents are not valid, which would make the whole case go away.

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Such a concept made its way out of LG HQ and into the hands of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, however, and three years after its submission date, the proposed device has returned to haunt the South Korean manufacturer, in the form of an issued patent.

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