In her profile, the patent attorney would have identified which social software applications she used.

在她的配置文件中，专利代理人已经确定了她使用哪些社会软件应用程序。

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The rampant abuse of the patent system has created the opposite condition for the creators of software and web services today.

专利系统的肆意泛滥为软件和网络服务提供者创造了相反的条件。

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In software, only 24% of startups even bothered to file a patent.

在软件行业中，只有24%的初创企业提交(甚至还是懒得提交)了专利。

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Rather, the software patent debate pits the patent bar and large software companies like Microsoft and IBM, which have tens of thousands of patents, against rank-and-file programmers and up-and-coming entrepreneurs for whom the threat of frivolous litigation is a growing disincentive to innovation.

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The Supreme Court first upheld a software patent in 1981, involving software controlling a process for curing rubber, and since then patents have become a vital bulwark protecting the assets of big companies like IBM and Microsoft.

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On balance, the availability of a patent for software or business methods provides little incentive to developers.

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