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
101
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
Atthebeginningofthetwentiethcentury,NorthAmericansocietyheld,asanideal,theNuclearFamily.Thispresumablyperfect
Obviouslyhehasdoneaveryterriblethingtoday,but______,hecan’tbeheldresponsilSleinthecriminaljusticesystem.
Solvingaproblemcanbebrokendownintoseveralsteps.First,theproblemmustbeidentifiedcorrectly.Psychologistsrefer(1
Whileitisessentialthatthetextcoversthesubjectadequately,itisalsoimportantthatitisneithertoodetailedortooc
NextdoortoalunchcounteradvertisingagrilledcheesespecialisagallerywhereVanGogh’s"Irises"sharesthewallswithM
Theexperienceofforeigncountriesisworthlearningfromandtakingforreference.
Weregretbeingunabletoentertainyourrequestforprovidingfreeboardingto15sportsmenfortwoweeks.
AtarecentdebateinWashingtonabouttheriseofChina,aU.S.careerdiplomatstruckanoptimisticnote.Yes,Chinawouldpro
Itisirrationalfortheparentsto______allthehopesontheirchildren.
随机试题
装置防冻的基本方法有哪些?
下列哪种物质缺乏可引起血液丙酮酸含量升高?()
患者,女,25岁。车祸大出血,需急诊手术,联系其家属,签署手术同意书后行剖腹探查术,术中给予肠吻合后,出血停止,后发现卵巢巨大囊肿,未经家属同意切除一侧卵巢,该案例中医务人员违背了哪项临床诊疗原则
对生物利用度概念叙述错误的是
某有限责任公司的下列财务会计事项中,符合公司法律制度规定的是()。
贾某为甲合伙企业的有限合伙人。贾某个人欠赵某人民币50万元,无力用个人财产清偿,打算用其从甲合伙企业分得的收益来偿还债务,赵某对此行为不满,可以()。
某股份有限公司现有净资产5000万元。该公司于2007年1月发行1年期公司债券500万元。2007年11月,该公司又发行3年期公司债券600万元。2008年7月,该公司拟再次发行公司债券。根据《证券法》的规定,该公司此次发行公司债券的最高限额为(
“谁道殽函千古险?回看只见一丸泥”中的“一丸泥”指的是()。
Noonewantstolooksillyordothewrongthingatanewjob.Itisimportanttomaketherightimpression(印象)fromtheveryfir
考试信度是指考试的客观性,指一个考试反映考生真实水平的程度。根据上述定义,对考试信度影响不大的一项是()。
最新回复
(
0
)