Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the Federal Circuit itself that introduced such patents with its 1998 decision in the so-called State Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets.
对商业方法专利的限制将是一个戏剧性的转变，因为正是联邦巡回法院本身在1998年所谓的State Street Bank案中裁定引入此类专利，批准了一种将共同基金资产进行集合的方法的专利。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。