1.   Larvae are found only in the faeces of patent cases so that faecal samples should be obtained from a umber of affected individuals.

2.   Although patent cases frequently are brought by small inventors against larger companies, pharmaceutical and chemical firms have urged the high court to leave the rule alone.

3.   Although patent cases most often are brought by small inventors against larger companies, pharmaceutical and chemical companies have urged the high court to leave the rule alone.

4.   Because the Supreme Court rarely reviews patent cases, the Federal Circuit has become in essence the highest patent court in the land.

5.   A separate patent case is pending with Alliance Research Corp., which bought the partnership.

6.   Adding to the sense of uncertainty is the deep rift over patent issues within the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which handles appeals of patent cases.

7.   But these days, the role of the jury in patent cases is being scrutinized like never before.

8.   Dietz also likes the underdog of the year, Transkaryotic Therapies, the Massachusetts biotech firm that lost to Amgen in a recent patent case.

9.   Earlier this year, in another patent case that addressed the role of judges and juries in infringement trials.

10.   He said that juries are generally qualified to interpret the legal details in patent cases, and that lawyers who argue otherwise are elitist.