11.   He has been visiting the patent office since he was a child inventor taken there by his father, a patent lawyer.

12.   Inventors inducted into the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame banquet thanked their patent lawyers.

13.   Many patent lawyers predict that if it were judges, and not juries, doing more of the legal interpretation in patent cases, patentholders would win fewer cases.

14.   Martin, who owns a home in Pound Ridge, N.Y., is registered with the government as a patent lawyer.

15.   More recently, the creation of on-line searching systems has made research methods even easier for patent lawyers and inventors.

16.   Naoto Kan, a former patent lawyer whose father was a simple salaryman, lost his first three attempts at elective office.

17.   Nugent attributes the demand for patent lawyers to the explosive growth of the biotech, high technology, and pharmaceutical industries.

18.   Out of those funds she developed two more prototypes and paid for patent lawyer fees.

19.   Patent lawyers, however, say the Clinton-Blair proposal does nothing to diminish the value of gene patents.

20.   Patent lawyers in the biotechnology business are going to be very, very busy.