Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.
现在，这个国家最高级别的专利法院似乎已完全准备削减商业方法专利，这类专利自十年前首次被授权以来就一直存在争议。
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。
That ruling produced an explosion in business-method patent filings, initially by emerging Internet companies trying to stake out exclusive rights to specific types of online transactions.
该裁决导致了商业方法专利申请的激增，最初是由新兴的互联网公司申请的，这些公司试图为特定类型的在线交易确立排他性权利。
The Bilski case involves a claimed patent on a method for hedging risk in the energy market.
Bilski案涉及一项声称的专利，该专利是关于在能源市场中对冲风险的方法。
The Federal Circuit's action comes in the wake of a series of recent decisions by the Supreme Court that has narrowed the scope of protections for patent holders.
联邦巡回法院的这一行动是在最高法院一系列最近的裁决之后发生的，这些裁决已经缩小了对专利持有人的保护范围。
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。