Of the 278,000 patents granted last year by the United States patent office, just 254 went to inventors from Brazil, which accounts for 3% of the world's output and people.

美国专利局去年批准了278，000项专利，其中仅有254项属于巴西投资人。 然而，无论是生产总量还是人口数量，巴西均占到世界的3%。

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It is not simply a failure of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to scrutinise applications more rigorously.

这不仅仅是美国专利和商标局(USPTO)缺乏严格的审核程序而导致的失败。

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If you are interested in trademark issues I may be talking more about them on this site going forward but definitely visit the United States Patent and trademark Office for more information.

如果大家对商标问题感兴趣，我会在以后给大家介绍，也可以访问美国专利商标局的网站获取更多信息。

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office said no.

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Since the United States Patent Office grants patents freely and courts enforce them zealously, every inventive company lives in fear of trolls.

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And in the meantime, BlackBerry is relying on very recent rulings that are coming out of the United States Patent Office, who are re-evaluating the patents held by NTP and saying, at least preliminarily, that these patents are not valid, which would make the whole case go away.

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Last year it persuaded the United States' Patent Office to throw out a trademark challenge brought by Bacardi, a spirits firm now based in Bermuda and the maker of the world's biggest-selling rum.

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