Patents were filed more for strategic purposes, to be used as bargaining chips to ward off infringement suites or as a means to block competitors' products.

专利申请更多的是出于战略目的，被用作抵御侵权案件的讨价还价筹码，或者作为阻止竞争对手产品发展的手段。

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He reiterated his position that nuclear weapons could not be used as international bargaining chips.

他一再重申他的立场，认为核子武器不可以用作当作国际谈判的筹码。

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But armed groups are still believed to be holding dozens of foreigners captive in Iraq as bargaining chips.

但一般相信武装分子仍在伊拉克挟持著数十名外国人质，作为谈判筹码。

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"He will also have to reassure the Poles and the Czechs who I think are feeling a little nervous as to whether they are deemed bargaining chips and might be traded away in some efforts with the Russians.

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There is danger that such bills would be taken back into the purgatory of being bargaining chips for comprehensive reform.

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The statutory debt ceiling and the threat of default have become political bargaining chips in the debate over fiscal policy.

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Even low hanging fruit is being ignored, I suppose, because one side or the other needs it for future bargaining chips.

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