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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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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As a patent product, the working mechanics, structure and features of XJH type highly shearing and crushing mixer are presented.

介绍专利产品X JH型高剪切粉碎混合机的工作原理、结构及其特点。

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That does the jury a disservice: its members seem to have stuck to the job of working out whether patent infringements had occurred.

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Intellectual property wonks are constantly griping about the quality of patent reviews performed by examiners working for the U.S. government.

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This would help to measure the quality of the patent system itself, and offer some way of evaluating whether it is working to promote innovation, or to impede it.

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