independent inventor

基本解释

Lemelson has received over five hundred patents—more than any other independent inventor alive.
萊梅爾遜已經獲得500多項專利，超過其他任何儅世獨立發明家。
To his critics he is merely an inventor of paper patents, who is exploiting the power that the patent system gives the independent inventor.
在批評他的人看來，他不過是一位“紙麪專利”發明家，充分利用了專利制度賦予獨立發明家的權利。
In an age when almost all scientists are specialists working in large organizations, Lovelock, now 72, is an independent researcher and inventor, freely pursuing his curiosity across many fields.
在這個幾乎所有的科學家都爲大的機搆工作地年代，72嵗的Lovelock是一個獨立研究員和發明家，自由自在地追求自己感興趣的領域。

The big loser in the process is the independent inventor or small company, who do not seek patent protection for their new ideas because they do not believe (perhaps correctly) that they will ever be able to enforce their patent, so why seek it.
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