1.   If software programs were covered by patent rather than copyright legislation, there would be ways round these difficulties.

2.   Although the transmitters will alert any type of radar detector, the patent also covers specialized radar detectors that Cobra recently put on the market.

3.   And while TKT insists the two processes are different, Amgen maintains that its patents cover all versions of the drug made in cells of vertebrates, including humans.

4.   Besides demanding royalties on American cellular phones that use TDMA technology, Interdigital contends that its patents cover all telephones that use a European standard called GSM.

5.   A recently awarded patent covers electronic gathering of tax data by people filling out their tax returns.

6.   A spokesman for the University of Missouri said that it believed its patent covered human cloning because it applied to all mammals.

7.   Also, broad patents for stem cell derivation methods are held by the University of Wisconsin, and those patents may also cover the UCSF cells.

8.   But Affymetrix has always asserted that its patents covered DNA microarrays regardless of how they were made.

9.   But Apotex says that patent does not cover the slightly different version of the drug that it wants to sell.

10.   But Genzyme said its patent covers both methods.