At that rate of growth, the number of China-originated patents granted by the Patent Office would exceed the number of patents from Germany, Britain, France, and Italy combined by 2020.

如能保持目前的发展势头，到2020年，美国批准的来自中国的专利数量将超过德国、英国、法国和意大利的总和。

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Google holds a number of patents thanks to the On2 acquisition which it has granted use of its patents under a use but don't Sue clause.

由于收购了On 2, Google现在持有大量的专利，他说其他人可以使用这些专利而不会遭到起诉。

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The number of patents granted has risen from 900,000 in 1985 to 1.9m in 2008.

授予的专利数量已从1985年的90万上升到2008年的190万。

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In the past five years, the number of patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to companies based in RDEs (Rapidly Developing Economies) increased at a rate more than three times faster than that of companies in other countries.

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The number of patents granted has risen from 900, 000 in 1985 to 1.9m in 2008.

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Whereas the number of patents granted increased at less than 1 percent per year from 1930 until 1982, in the two decades after the creation of the Federal Circuit, patent grants nearly tripled, growing at an annual rate of about 5.7 percent.

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