independent inventor

基本解释

Lemelson has received over five hundred patents—more than any other independent inventor alive.
莱梅尔逊已经获得500多项专利，超过其他任何当世独立发明家。
To his critics he is merely an inventor of paper patents, who is exploiting the power that the patent system gives the independent inventor.
在批评他的人看来，他不过是一位“纸面专利”发明家，充分利用了专利制度赋予独立发明家的权利。
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.
在这个几乎所有的科学家都为大的机构工作地年代，72岁的Lovelock是一个独立研究员和发明家，自由自在地追求自己感兴趣的领域。

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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