1·Monsanto argues that its patents extend to later generations.
孟山都公司认为它的专利延伸到了后代。
2·Last year a federal task-force urged reform for patents related to genetic tests.
去年，一个联邦特别工作组敦促对基因检测相关的专利进行改革。
3·The three common types of legal protection are patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
三种常见的法律保护类型是专利、版权和商标。
4·Companies had won patents for isolated DNA for decades—by 2005 some 20% of human genes were patented.
几十年来，许多公司都获得了分离 DNA 的专利——到2005年，大约20%的人类基因都已获取专利。
5·Companies are eager to win patents for "connecting the dots," explains Hans Sauer, a lawyer for the BIO.
BIO 的律师 Hans Sauer 解释道，公司渴望获得专利，以便“归纳推理得出结论”。
1·For example, it is unclear whether the sequencing of a whole genome violates the patents of individual genes within it.
例如，目前还不清楚整个基因组的排序是否侵犯了其中单个基因组的专利权。
2·As with any hot technology, a mass of respectable and frivolous Copyrights and patents has accumulated in the XML space, and this has affected well-known data formats and some processing conventions.
与任何热门技术一样，XML空间中堆积了大量可敬而琐细的版权和专利权，这些对知名的数据格式和某些处理惯例产生了影响。
3·One way of looking at that is to count how many patents a country produces.
其中的一个方法就是数一数一个国家获得了多少专利权。
4·In the United States, patents, Copyrights and trademarks are governed by federal law. Trade secrets are governed by state laws.
在美国，专利权、版权和商标权是由联邦法管辖的，而商业秘密是由州法律管辖的。
5·The open secret is that everyone infringes everyone else’s patents in some way.
公开的秘密是每一个人都在以某种方式侵害每一个人的专利权。