An intellectual-property exchange 知识产权交易 Marketplace of ideas 创意集市 A new financial exchange hopes to make it easierto trade patent rights 愿新型金融交易让专利买卖更容易 THE technology industry is at war over intellectual property. 科技产业就知识产权的问题一直纷争不断。 On May 7th the first round of a three-part fight between Oracle and Google over patent andcopyright claims relating to the Java programming language ended in a decision thatdenied outright victory to either firm. 5月7日,甲骨文和谷歌就与编程语言Java相关的专利和版权声明进行了多回合的首轮较量,结果双方铩羽而归。 Apple, Samsung and others are fighting over smartphone patents. 苹果、三星及其他厂商在智能手机的专利权问题上拼得焦头烂额。 Facebook and Yahoo! are at loggerheads over internet patents. 脸谱网和雅虎也因互联网专利闹得很不愉快。 Accusations abound that innovation is taking a back seat to litigation. 官司铺天盖地,逼得创新给诉讼让位。 Only the lawyers are smiling. |