1.   The company settled a patent dispute last year.

2.   Another source of friction between the two companies, Maritz wrote, was a long-running patent dispute.

3.   As part of the agreement, Apple and Microsoft will put aside a long-running patent dispute.

4.   But the early days of the telephone were marked by many other patent disputes.

5.   But the ubiquity of graphic technology opened the way for animated evidence, including diagrams and re-enactments of plane crashes or faulty surgeries or patent disputes.

6.   Considered a pioneer in the still-young but exploding field of intellectual property, his technical prowess in intensely complex patent disputes has won him national acclaim.

7.   Digital, like Intergraph, was involved in a patent dispute with Intel last spring.

8.   Even overseas companies head to Delaware to hash out patent disputes.

9.   Few people involved in patent disputes asked for a jury trial.

10.   Genentech and Eli Lilly settled a longstanding patent dispute over a genetically growth hormone.