This Law may be cited as patent Law, its about the regulations of applications for patents, and the granting and maintenance of patents.

该法被称为《专利法》，是一部关于专利的申请应用、许可和保护的法律。

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In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents, despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.

2005年，IBM公司在一份法院报告中声称：尽管怀疑这种专利授权的法律基础，但它已经申请了300多份商业方法专利。

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Led since 2009 by Obama appointee and long time IBM veteran David Kappos, the PTO, depending on whom you ask, is credited with granting too many patents, granting too few patents and granting inferior patents.

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There are obvious and substantial costs from having this very porous system of granting patents.

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Reform would bring the U.S. patent system in line with the rest of the world by granting patents on a "first-to-file" rather than a "first-to-invent" basis.

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