translation.en: The patent bar was deeply entrenched in the status quo, the biotech industry had grown up around this practice, and legislation to ban gene patents had been introduced year after year in Congress, and had gone absolutely nowhere.
translation.zh: 专利律师已经深陷其中， 生物技术产业已经 通过这个司法实践壮大， 禁止基因专利的立法提案 年年在国会被提出， 但很显然根本没出国会的门。