1.   But as tech companies push the intellectual property envelope, even people in the industry wonder how some seemingly frivolous claims make it through the patent office.

2.   But since then, conflicting land claims have made negotiating leases a nightmare.

3.   Curiously, while rejecting what others saw as compelling evidence that smoking was a health hazard, Provost was a pushover for health claims made for various food supplements.

4.   FDA limits the comparative claims Glaxo can make based a single study like that.

5.   More recent Gore claims make it clear that the predilection persists.

6.   One piece of advice is to question out-of-this-world claims made on Web sites.

7.   The cattle feeders contend that false claims made in the Winfrey show cost them millions.

8.   The claims for DHEA make it sound like a miracle drug that can stop and even reverse the aging process and the debilitating diseases that often accompany it.

9.   The company persuaded a lower court to have the case dismissed on grounds that federal law preempted injury claims made under state liability laws.

10.   The problem was a clear plastic shield bolted over her plate, a device that its manufacturers claim will make license numbers invisible to photo radar.