11.   Novartis of Switzerland has filed patents covering the use of pesticides on genetically modified crops.

12.   Nowadays, professors file patents, raise venture capital and start companies.

13.   Not a chance, replied Fiorina, who said on Tuesday that her company was filing new patents at the rate of five a day.

14.   Patents could be filed as early as last year.

15.   Pineapplehead is still filing patents, so will not reveal the frequencies of the signals used by its system.

16.   Robotic Vision says it did file its patent in time and is appealing the ruling, Walker said.

17.   The stampede to file patents on biotech inventions is bringing the patent system to its knees and may even create a new digital divide between rich and poor countries.

18.   The University of Washington did try to sell the rights to paraoxenase, the first material out of the ecogenetics center for which it has filed a patent.

19.   They are gobbling up smaller seed companies, racing to file patents, and investing billions in research.

20.   They have filed a patent on the device.