How long is the duration of patent right for an invention according to the law?

根据这个法律．发明专利权的期限是多久？

Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods.

过去的十年中，成千上万的商业方法被授予了专利权。

Even more processes are never patented at all but kept as secret processes.

更多的工艺过程根本就不会取得专利权，而是作为秘方保存着。

Any genes of interest could thus be examined for worrisome mutations, probably without infringing any patents.

从此不用侵犯任何专利权，就可检测基因突变。

Some observers think an anti-Myriad ruling would have little practical effect.

些观察员认为反对麦利亚德公司专利权的裁将不会产生太大的经济影响。

Most genetically modified seeds are patented, this means farmers must purchase them after each planting.

大多数转基因种子都有专利权，因此农民们每次种植后都必须再次购买。

The firm's patents expire in 2015, and technology has moved on.

该公司的专利权有效期截止到2015年，而到那时，生物技术早已有极大的进步。

Look at patents. A patent grants an inventor exclusive right to profit from a specific product or process.

以专利为例。专利权授予发明者从特定产品或过程中获取利润的专有权。

Biro mastered his design and his pen became a hit in South America but there was still one huge problem.

比罗掌握了设计专利权，他的钢笔南美大受欢迎，但仍存着个巨大的问题。

It's how they determine who wins these situations.

他们用来认定谁拿到专利权的依据。

He boldly sued the Western Union in 1878 for infringement of the Bell patents.

1878 年， 他大胆地起诉西联汇款侵犯贝尔的专利权。

" The pharmaceutical company enjoys high profits due to the exclusive patent rights."

“制药公司由于拥有独家专利权而享有高额利润。”

On April 15th they were presented with a particularly testing puzzler: should the law allow people to patent human genes?

4月15日，法官们遇到个相当棘手的案件：法律是否允许取得人类基因的专利权。

Westinghouse bought Tesla's patent rights at a high price and invited Tesla to be a consultant for his company.

西屋公司高价买下了特斯拉的专利权，并邀请特斯拉成为他公司的顾问。

In his later years, Edison had more than 1,000 patent rights and became an innovative icon of Americans.

晚年，爱迪生拥有 1,000 多项专利权，成为美国人的创新偶像。

But also it has several big drugs which are coming off patent in coming years, and they're going to lose exclusivity.

但它也有几种大药未来几年将失去专利权，它们将失去独占权。

This is only for one of the patent rights. For invention the duration of protection is even shorter, only for 5 years protection.

只有种专利权保护期限是15年，发明专利保护期限是15年。至于实用新型和外观设计专利，保护期更短，只有5年。

Yet a great many processes depending on such research are sought for with complete secrecy until the stage at which patents can be taken out.

然而，依赖这种研究的很多工艺程序是完全保密的情况下进行的，直到可以取得专利权的阶段为止。

Many of the drugs needed are no longer covered by patents, but tariffs, poor distribution and high mark-ups still make them costly and scarce.

而很多治疗所需的药品不再受制于专利权，而是关税，药品分布不合理，涨价幅度高仍然造成了药价高昂与药品缺乏。

Bell had arrived at the office a few hours before Elisha Gray, and therefore the government gave Alexander Graham Bell the patent.

贝尔比以利沙·格雷早几个小时到达办公室，因此政府授予了亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔专利权。