1.   Superior products would evolve and stiff competition would sprout up as Roundup patent protections expired around the globe.

2.   The Canadian parliament recently extended patent protection after pharmaceutical companies promised to control prices and to increase their spending on research into new drugs.

3.   Brand-name pharmaceutical companies denied that this would happen and promised greater investments in research in return for longer patent protection.

4.   Two alternative approaches have been made to the question of the patent protection of inventions which include a computer program.

5.   The territorial scope of patent protection is determined by the application procedure.

6.   Also flooding the market are knockoffs, or imitations that do not try to pass for the real thing but might violate patent protections.

7.   American Home Products Corp. lost its bid today to extend patent protection for its anti-arthritis drug, Lodine, when Congress deleted the provision from health insurance legislation.

8.   American Home Products Corp. lost its bid to extend patent protection for its anti-arthritis drug Lodine today when Congress deleted the provision from health insurance legislation.

9.   Although Zeneca manufactures the drug, it has no international patent protection for the drug, leaving it open to widespread competition.

10.   An appeals court said only asexual reproduction of a genetically identical plant can violate patent protections.