81.   Ms. Ryan said that Bristol had effectively filled the gap caused when Capoten, its blockbuster blood-pressure drug, lost its patent protection recently.

82.   New legislation seeks to exclude surgical procedures from patent protection.

83.   Opponents to the early publication law asserted that inventors would be vulnerable to copycats and infringers before they had won patent protection.

84.   Other key products include Tegretol, an epilepsy treatment, and Voltaren, a painkiller and inflammation treatment which lost patent protection last year and faces generic competition.

85.   Pharmaceutical companies objected to provisions that might weaken patent protection for drugs.

86.   Patent protection for the original ground breakers eventually runs out, and prices decline even further.

87.   Patent protection is, of course, only one reason why poor people cannot get their hands on lifesaving medicines.

88.   Other shortages have occurred soon after a drug has lost its patent protection.

89.   Quick-thinking country executives have helped this company expand in a region noted for its weak patent protection laws and volatile economic swings.

90.   Salisbury said branded products that have lost patent protection in the U.S. have faced the most serious declines, as generic products take market share.