[Day2475 2021-07-05]
Lesson15-2 Secrecy in industry工业中的秘密
Yet a great many processes depending on such research are sought
for with complete secrecy until the stage at which patents can be taken out.
Even more processes are never patented at all but kept as secret processes.
This applies particularly to chemical industries, where chance discoveries play a much larger part than they do in physical and mechanical industries.
Sometimes the secrecy goes to such an extent that the whole nature of the research cannot be mentioned.
Many firms, for instance, have great difficulty in obtaining technical or scientific
books from libraries because they are unwilling to have their names
entered as having taken out such and such a book, for fear the agents
of other firms should be able to trace the kind of research they are likely to be undertaking.
直接翻译：工业中的秘密
然而，许多依赖于这种研究的过程，被寻求在专利申请阶段之前，完全保密被传出去。
甚至有更多的工艺，从未申请过专利，而是作为秘密的工艺被保存下来。
这特别适用于化学工业，在化学工业中，偶然发现所起的作用，比物理和化学工业大得多。
有时候，保密的程度，已经到了不能提及研究的全部性质的地步。
例如,许多公司，很难从图书馆的书中，获得技术或科学知识。
因为他们不愿意把自己的名字，写进书中，他们害怕怕特务们进来,就把这样那样的一本书
拿了出来，以至于其他公司应该能够追踪他们可能进行的研究。
