Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods.
在过去十年中，数千项专利被授予了一些被称为商业方法的发明。
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。
In a move that has intellectual-property lawyers abuzz, the u.s. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said it would use a particular case to conduct a broad review of business-method patents.
这一举措让知识产权律师们议论纷纷，美国联邦巡回上诉法院表示，它将利用一个特定案例对商业方法专利进行广泛审查。
It "has the potential to eliminate an entire class of patents.
它有潜力消除整个一类专利。
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。