首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
So you’ve got an invention — you and around 39,000 others each year, according to 2002 statistics! The 64,000-dollar questio
So you’ve got an invention — you and around 39,000 others each year, according to 2002 statistics! The 64,000-dollar questio
admin
2010-01-10
82
问题
So you’ve got an invention — you and around 39,000 others each year, according to 2002 statistics!
The 64,000-dollar question, if you have come up with a device which you believe to be the answer to the energy crisis or you’ve invented a lawnmower which cuts grass with a jet of water (not so daft, someone has invented one), is how to ensure you’re the one to reap the rewards of your ingenuity. How will all you garden shed boffins out there keep others from capitalizing on your ideas and lining their pockets at your expense?
One of the first steps to protect your interest is to patent your invention. That can keep it out of the grasp of the pirates for at least the next 20 years. And for this reason inventors in their droves beat a constant trail from all over the country to the doors of an anonymous grey-fronted building just behind London’s Holborn to try and patent their devices.
The building houses the Patent Office. It’s an ant heap of corridors, offices and filing rooms—a sorting house and storage depot for one of the world’s biggest and most varied collections of technical data. Some ten million patents — English and foreign — are listed there.
File after file, catalogue after catalogue detail the brain-children of inventors down the centuries, from a 1600’s machine gun designed to fire square bullets at infidels and round ones at Christians, to present-day laser, nuclear and computer technology.
The first letters’ patent were granted as long ago as 1449 to a Flemish craftsman by the name of John Utynam. The letters, written in Latin, are still on file at the office. They were granted by King Henry Ⅵ and entitled Utynam to import into this country his knowledge of making stained glass windows in order to install such windows at Eton College.
Present-day patents procedure is a more sophisticated affair than getting a go-ahead note from the monarch. These days the strict procedures governing whether you get a patent for your revolutionary mouse-trap or solar-powered back-scratcher have been reduced to a pretty exact science.
From start to finish it will take around two and a half years and cost £ 165 for the inventor to gain patent protection for his brainchild. That’s if he’s lucky. By no means all who apply to the Patent Office, which is a branch of the Department of Trade, get a patent.
A key man at the Patent Office is Bernard Partridge, Principal Examiner (Administration), who boils down to one word the vital ingredient any inventor needs before he can hope to overcome the many hurdles in the complex procedure of obtaining a patent — "ingenuity".
What have the 1600’s machine gun and the present-day laser in common?
选项
A、Both were approved by the monarch.
B、Both were granted by King Henry Ⅵ.
C、Both were rejected by the Department of Trade.
D、Both were patented.
答案
D
解析
这是道细节题。文中看出他们共同的特点就是都受专利保护的。从文中第五段“File after file, catalogue after catalogue,detail the brain-children of inventors down the centuries,from a 1600’s machine gun designed to fire square bullets at infidels and round ones at Christians, to present-day laser,nuclear and computer technology.”(无数的档案和目录详细地记载了几个世纪以来发明家们发明的东西,从17世纪的用正方形子弹的机关枪以及公元时期的圆形子弹到今天的激光,核能以及电脑技术。)故选D。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Ap0O777K
本试题收录于:
NAETI中级口译笔试题库外语翻译证书(NAETI)分类
0
NAETI中级口译笔试
外语翻译证书(NAETI)
相关试题推荐
Atthebeginningofthetwentiethcentury,NorthAmericansocietyheld,asanideal,theNuclearFamily.Thispresumablyperfect
Thehumanbeingshavepollutedtheenvironmentseriously.ItistimetheUnitedNationsmusttakesomemeasures.
Sooncomicsweresoprevalentastoattracttheattentionofseriouscritics.
TheEskimoisgenerallypicturedashospitable,amiableandobliging.
JaneMorrisonalwayslostargumentsbecauseshewastootimidtoassertherself.
I’mratherconcernedhowhewilltakeinhisschool.
Hewaslookingimpatientatthevisitingsalesman,whoshowednosignsofgettingreadytoleave.
下面你将听到一段有关中美贸易关系的讲话。在冷战结束后的新形势下,两国要不要及如何发展双边关系,是中美两国面临的重大课题。“永久正常贸易关系”的通过表明,在美国,支持发展中美关系的力量占了上风,美国政府、国会、工商企业界和公众的主流都支持以建设性的
中国经济高速发展,需要大量的矿产品及相关的能源与原材料加工制品。每年消耗的矿石量达60多亿吨,位居世界前列。中国政府为实现经济的可持续发展,在矿产资源勘查、开发领域制定了一系列的法律、法规和政策,形成了既适合中国国情又基本与国际接轨的矿产资源勘查
假期往往是快乐与压力相伴而行。你需要陪伴家人、购买和互赠礼物、拜亲访友、享用节日大餐、打折疯狂采购、组织和参加聚会等。回归到日常生活节奏和相对更安静的工作场所,会使你因缺乏新鲜事物的刺激而精神不振。感到有点失落是一种正常的感觉;一旦回归到日常生活
随机试题
编辑应用文不包括()。
A、Chefandcustomer.B、Husbandandwife.C、Employerandemployee.D、Teacherandstudent.B题目问对话双方的关系是什么。对话中男士告知女士:他正准备下班且会从学校接孩子
溶栓治疗过程中,能提示血管再通的指标不包括【】
英国人类学家马林诺夫斯基等在实践中首先提出的一种社会学研究方法是【】
痹证的病理主要是
下列民事行为中属于民事法律行为的是()。
位于县城的某石油企业为增值税一般纳税人,2014年3月发生以下业务:(1)进口原油5000吨,支付买价2000万元、运抵我国境内输入地点起卸前的运输费用60万元,保险费无法确定。(2)开采原油9000吨,其中当月销售6000吨,取得不含
你们单位五个人去参加上级单位组织的十八大知识竞赛,你们五个人性格各异。各有特长。请问你如何组织协调?
人们在社会交往和公共生活中应当遵守的最基本的道德规范是
GriffithworkedforafirmthatspecializedineconomicdevelopmentinWashingtonD.C.becausesheneededmoneytopayforherd
最新回复
(
0
)