He was a tinkerer, inventor, patent holder, and had worked for the biggest engineering firm of all time, NASA.

他做过修补匠、发明家、专利持有人，还给无论何时都是最大的工程技术公司NASA打过工。

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The most egregious offence is the “pay-for-delay” deal, under which a patent-holder pays a maker of generic drugs to delay its launch of a cheap copy.

妨碍仿制药上市最臭名昭著的绊脚石是“付费推迟”协议。 根据这项协议，专利持有人可以买通仿制药制造商以推迟其将廉价的复制产品推向市场。

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Misuse of a patent occurs when a patent holder USES the patent to achieve something illegally.

当一个专利权人利用专利去非法的完成某些事时，专利滥用就发生了。

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That Monsanto, one of the most significant contributors to this research, has placed conditions on the use of its intellectual property or charges for access to its property is neither extraordinary nor problematic: Licensing agreements are complicated affairs, running into the dozens of pages, and they always preserve a range of protections for the patent holder.

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Some generics firms are now agreeing to delay their launches not for cash but for a promise from the patent-holder to delay or cancel the launch of its authorised generic.

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If EchoStar prevails, similarly-situated companies will have even less incentive to seek out deals with patent-holders, instead relying on the courts to carve out for them an extended period of unlicensed use with a bill that comes due years later assuming the patent holder can afford to litigate for years and in an amount almost certainly far below the actual benefit conferred.

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