Patent examiners started consulting the database as they evaluated new applications.

专利审查员在评估新申请时开始查阅数据库。

It was built solely for the eyes of the world's patent examiners.

它专为全世界专利审查员的眼睛而构建。

Robert Langer finally prevailed by convincing the patent examiner that their work must be original because no one in the scientific world believed it was possible.

罗伯特·兰格最终成功说服专利审查员，他们的工作成果必须是自主原创研发，因为科学界没有人相信这是可能的。

See, when a patent application comes in, it goes to a patent examiner.

看，当专利申请收到时，它会交给专利审查员。

Think of it like a Dewey Decimal system for patent examiners.

可以将其视为专利审查员的杜威十进制系统。

And pretty soon it won't be just for the world's patent examiners anymore.

很快，这将不再只是世界专利审查员的专利。

And the problem wasn't that the patent examiners had been negligent.

问题并不在于专利审查员的疏忽。

Last year, the Indian government announced their intention to open up access beyond just patent examiners.

去年，印度政府宣布打算开放专利审查员之外的准入渠道。

They needed to make traditional knowledge accessible to the patent examiners.

他们需要让专利审查员能够获取传统知识。

India's traditional knowledge was largely invisible to Western patent offices because patent examiners didn't have access to it.

西方专利局基本上看不到印度的传统知识，因为专利审查员无法获取这些知识。

So therefore, the important part was to get this into the system that the patent examiners were using.

因此，重要的部分是将其纳入专利审查员正在使用的系统中。

If you're coming into a cold, you don't really know - as a patent examiner, you're not permitted to spend 20 hours trying to, you know, go through academic journals.

如果你感冒了，你真的不知道——作为一名专利审查员，你不被允许花 20 个小时试图浏览学术期刊。

The Indian government was going to collect all of the remedies and practices embedded in their ancient texts and use them to create a giant searchable database for patent examiners around the world.

印度政府将收集其古代文献中包含的所有补救措施和实践，并利用它们为世界各地的专利审查员创建一个巨大的可搜索数据库。