Pointing to its 45 patents and 65 pending patents, Suntech claims it has now succeeded, but it's secretive about the details.

依靠45项专利和65项正在申请的专利，尚德宣布他们获得了成功，但在具体事项上还处于保密阶段。

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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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The claims come from a Texas-based company called Lodsys, which said it has four patents relating to in-app purchases, interactive online ads, online help and subscription renewals.

声明书来自于德克·萨斯一家叫Lodsys的公司，自称拥有四项专利，涉及应用内付费系统，交互式在线广告，在线帮助和订阅更新。

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So, too, is the risk of overlap: a recent study by M-CAM, a consultancy which studies intellectual property, found that more than 30% of patents make duplicate claims, raising questions about their validity.

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As is typical with patents, the patent claims appear to overlap in places, with both companies saying they have patents on the technique of boosting chemical pathways in yeast that produce isobutanol.

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The number of duplicate claims among patents is far too high.

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