1.   An official concedes that a good number of applicants might have emotional problems, the kind that send people to priests, psychiatrists or patent attorneys.

2.   Being a worldly man of business, Jimmy suggests a meeting between Joe and a patent attorney.

3.   Biotech patent attorneys say the amount is trivial, compared to what is spent in most patent battles.

4.   A patent attorney can research more thoroughly whether a product has been patented.

5.   A successful inventor has to know how to do market research, hire patent attorneys and agents, produce prototypes and sell their product to potential backers.

6.   But former Pennsylvania patent attorney Q. Todd Dickinson has a soft spot for inventions by the little guy.

7.   But San Francisco patent attorney Kevin Bastian wonders what will happen when all those pent-up EST patents begin to issue.

8.   Charles H. Cella, a former patent attorney, set up a Web site based in Boston called BountyQuest.

9.   CellPro turned to Tom Kiley, a founding board member and patent attorney, for guidance.

10.   Dickinson said his experiences in Philadelphia as a patent attorney have prepared him for the new job.