The USPTO concluded that the process was too abstract and denied the application.

美国专利商标局认为这一方法过于抽象，驳回了申请。

The annual growth rate of USPTO patents assigned to U.S. entities during this period averaged around 7%.

这20年间美国专利与商标局分配给美国实体的专利增长率平均为每年7%左右。

The full patent application, which was originally filed back in 2004, can be read over at the USPTO website.

完整的专利文件最初归档于2004年，你可以通过USPTO网站来阅读它。

More than 300 devices are registered in the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as cures for snoring.

在美国专利和商标部有三百多种治疗打鼾的设备注册。

It is not simply a failure of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to scrutinise applications more rigorously.

这不仅仅是美国专利和商标局(USPTO)缺乏严格的审核程序而导致的失败。

The methods for USPTO patent database searching were introduced by examples, so as to be used to search patents in United States.

通过对美国专利商标局（USPTO）专利数据库检索过程的实例说明，介绍该专利网络检索方法，供用户在检索美国专利文献时参考与使用。

She drew her data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) -not a perfect indicator of inventiveness, but probably a fair proxy for it.

她从美国专利局和商标局(USPTO)获取并处理数据。USPTO虽然不是一个完美的发明的指标，但是可能是一个发明的公平的代理人。

And a quarter of the applications handled by the USPTO contain no references to prior art, adds Mr Dudas, while another quarter contain more than 25 references.

USPTO处理的专利申请中有四分之一没有提及先前技术，Dudas先生补充说，同时有四分之一则包含了25个以上的先前技术参考。

To complicate matters further, says Jon Dudas, the director of the USPTO, patent applications have become more complex as well as more numerous: some applications contain thousands of claims.

USPTO的主管Jon Dudas说，把事情弄的更糟的是，专利申请案也变得千头万绪：一些申请案中包含了上千个声明。