At present, the company owns up to 16 items of machine invention patents and utility patents.

目前，公司已经拥有16项机器发明专利和实用新型专利。

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Utility patents cover a product's function, rather than ornamentation, and the damages for them are based on the patent's contribution to the product.

发明专利针对的是产品的功能，而不是外观，判断发明专利遭侵犯后的损失则要基于该专利对产品的贡献。

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He said patent filings by China groups had shot up, especially for utility model or "mini" patents that are relatively easy to obtain but difficult to defeat in court.

他表示，中国企业的专利申请已大幅增加，尤其是实用新型或“微型”专利，此类专利相对容易获得，但在法庭上难以胜诉。

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What Apple (and again Microsoft) does have is a number of design and utility patents.

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Last year, the USPTO issued a record-high of 219, 614 utility patents, nearly one-third more than the previous year and the steepest annual increase on record, according to IFI analysis.

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Apple presented its case first and called its last witness earlier this week, arguing that Samsung has infringed on both design and utility patents that cover the look and feel of its best-selling products and how they work.

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