IBM amassed 5,896 patents in 2010, making it the first company to get more than 5,000 patents in a single year, according to patent research organization IFI Claims patent Services.

根据IFI专利服务公司的调查，IBM公司在2010年一年就申请了5896项专利，使它成为世界上第一家在一年内取得5000多项专利的公司。

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Patent protection operates as a stimulus for research and development for new products, but the quest is for products that generate a profit.

专利保护可刺激新产品的研究和开发，但目标是要获得可产生利润的产品。

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It finds that proximity does matter: Indian patent applicants refer to research by people in India much more often than they cite work by those elsewhere.

结果发现，亲近度真的有关系。印度的专利申请人，比较常引用印度人所写的研究报告，而非引用其他地方的人所写的。

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The policy gives advantages to companies bidding for government contracts that conduct their research and development in China and patent their innovations here.

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