By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: October 6, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: An office in the United States government has helped protect 1)the property rights of inventors for more than two-hundred years. Its job

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The United States has issued its 10 millionth patent. President George Washington signed the first almost 228 years ago. A patent is an official document that gives an individual or company the right to be the only one that makes or sells a product.

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Apple Inc. has been awarded a long sought-after patent for touch screen functionality on portable devices, a set of exclusive rights expected to play into its current litigation against its counterparts in the mobil

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SAN FRANCISCO, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Google Inc. on Monday announced that it is bidding for patent portfolio of Nortel Networks in the bankruptcy auction for the Canadian telecommunications equipment maker. In a press release, the Toronto-based Nortel

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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. federal court jury on Friday said it has found Samsung infringed six of Apple's patents and ordered it to pay more than 1 billion U.S. dollars in damages to Apple. The verdict was read in a U.S. district cour

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今天我们要学的词是applicant。 Applicant, 申请人。 Duke University had a record 27,000 freshman applicants this year, 杜克大学今年申请入学的大学一年级新生多达两万七千人,创下了最高记录。与此同时, Y

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