21.   -- New rules to clamp down on theft of copyrights and patents, protect manufacturers and consumers against fake products, and encourage new inventions through better patent protection.

22.   -- Weakens patent protection for software developers.

23.   A Fortune magazine article in March criticized the company for courting investors with news releases that left out disappointing clinical results and misled them about patent protection.

24.   A look at the ethics of whether Bayer and the drug regulators should forgo profits and patent protection when there is a rising need.

25.   A Rule Breaker should carry sustainable advantage through business momentum, patent protection, visionary leadership or inept competitors.

26.   A spokeswoman for the Food and Drug Administration said there was no guarantee of exclusivity when drugs that have lost their patent protection become available without a prescription.

27.   A spokesman for Andrx said the senators would hear testimony about recent developments involving Prilosec and other widely used drugs that lost patent protection.

28.   Activists are now campaigning against the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas, saying the United States wants patent protections beyond those in TRIPS.

29.   Advanced Therapies hopes to license its technology to drugmakers on the verge of losing patent protection for established treatments.

30.   All the important new gene therapies are based on genes that had patent protection.