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Do you think they planned the changes in the award program, company financing, marketing, and policy, but missed transferring points, just happening to change a $x liability into a $0 dollar liability by accident?

>for some reason

It's for cost cutting.

I hope in the next few years, someone can be bothered to see if/how this event correlates with IBM's yearly patent-filing numbers.

Oh really? and just WHAT is the conversion rate between a PatentPoint and a BluePoint? </s>