Realizing the importance of this breakthrough, he lost no time in patenting it.

意识到这一突破的重要性后，他立即申请了专利。

Studies of the most patent-conscious business of all—the semiconductor industry—suggest that firms do not necessarily become more innovative as they increase their patenting activity.

对所有行业中最具专利意识的行业——半导体行业的研究表明，企业不一定会随着专利申请活动的增加而变得更具创新性。

Patenting genes is bad for diagnosis.

为基因申请专利不利于诊断。

Can you start selling your invention before patenting it?

你才开始卖贵发明专利？

If truth be told, few inventions are really worth patenting.

如果告以实情，几乎没有什么发明值得授予专利。

And with sloppier patenting standards, litigation has increased.

由于专利标准放宽导致诉讼案件增加。

This week's discussion relates to patenting emerging areas of science.

本周的讨论和科学专利的出现相关。

So Apple might just have to try patenting the rest of the industry, too.

所以苹果可能必须获得这个行业的其他专利。

Another field where patenting is pursued aggressively is semiconductors.

另一个申请专利火爆的领域是半导体行业。

In this context patenting an artificial genome for a bacterium seems reasonable.

在这个背景下，给予细菌的合成基因授予专利是合理的。

Professor Brook Baker, an expert on drug patenting, says: "Why do they behave like this?

药物专利的专家布鲁克·贝克教授说：“为什么世界卫生组织这么做呢？

But imagining is not the same as building, and puzzling is a long, long way from patenting.

但想象不同于建造，从冥思苦想到获得专利还有漫漫长路要走。

If that is so, one wonders why Mr Jones went through the expensive business of patenting it.

如果是这样的话，不知道为什么琼斯先生经历了昂贵的商业专利。

Indians are still left behind in inventions even under the system that encourages patenting.

即使在鼓励专利申请的系统下，印度人在发明创造方面仍然比较落后。

In the poor world, the patenting system every day puts medicines beyond the reach of sick people.

在贫穷国家，专利制度每天都使病人得不到药品。

Intel is currently in the process of patenting the ability to transfer data between light sources.

英特尔目前正在申请专利的能力之间传输数据的过程光源。

They are major innovators, producing 16 times more patents per employee than large patenting firms.

小企业也是重要的创新者，每名小企业员工创造的平均专利数，超过大型企业员工16倍。

He has even heard of Indian farmers calling lawyers in the hope of patenting their prize vegetables.

他曾听说印度农民打电话给律师，希望可以为他们得奖的蔬菜申请专利。

Based on the industrial structure, this article focuses on the patenting in Chinese software industry.

基于中国软件业的产业结构，对中国软件业专利申请行为进行实证研究。

He fell out with the NIH, however, over the issue of patenting DNA sequences called expressed sequence tags.

由于在是否授予名为表达序列标签的DNA序列专利权这一问题上的分歧，他与NIH闹翻了。

It was the first time Mr. Stone had heard of Corbis patenting the work, he said. "I was shocked," he recalled.

Stone第一次听到说Corbis已经申请了专利，“我很震惊”他说道。

Patenting the organism isn't without its critics, however, who argue the move will stifle future science relying on an artificial microbes.

然而，生物体专利也不是没有批评意见，批评者认为此举将扼杀依赖人造微生物的未来科学。

At the heart of any discussion of the new genetic commerce is the issue of patenting the genetic blueprints of millions of years of evolution.

关于新兴的基因商业争论的核心在于几百万年进化形成的基因蓝图是否适用专利权。

So even if Google cranks up its patenting machine to Microsoft's level this year, it won't start seeing the fruits of that effort until around 2015.

就算今年Google的专利生产机器能赶上微软的规模，它也要等到2015年才开始收获成果。