It has been dismissed by the Federal Circuit It may change the legal practices in the U. S. 28.

它已被联邦巡回法院驳回 它可能会改变美国的法律惯例 28.

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裁决效仿了最高法院。最高法院最近做出了一系列的判决，缩小了专利持有者的受保范围。

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.

在一项使得知识产权律师们议论纷纷的提议中，美国联邦巡回上诉法院声称它将利用某个具体案件来对商业方法专利进行广泛的复审。

The judges on the Federal Circuit are " reacting to the anti-patent trend at the Supreme Court" , says Harold C. Wegner, a patent attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

乔治华盛顿大学法律学院的专利法律师 Harold C. Wegner 教授表示，" 联邦巡回法院的法官们正在对最高法院的反专利动态做出反应" 。

Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with is 1998 decision in the so-called state Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets.

对于商业方法诉求的限制是个戏剧性的彻底变化，因为正是联邦巡回法院自己引进了这种专利。那是在 1998 年，对于所谓的美国道富银行的案件中，联邦巡回法院做出了判决，批准了筹集共同基金资产的方法具有专利权。