The Fed is a racket at heart, a con game writ large — what else can you call an organization with the exclusive privilege of printing money in the trillions and handing it over to friends?
This effectively undermines the entire purpose of the patent system: the Patent Office is charging applicants serious money for giving it the privilege of giving away their commercial secrets.
这有效地破坏了整个专利制度的目的：专利局向申请人收费，而却给予他们泄漏商业秘密的特权。
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You'll pay a lot of money for the privilege-one-third of the employee's first - year salary, or more-but you'll probably end up with truly topnotch candidates for your job.