21.   UC filed a patent on the gene.

22.   HP spokesman Nolan Sundrud said the company knows Xerox has filed several patents and has anticipated it would develop products based on the technology.

23.   Kamen withheld information on the Segway until he had finished filing related patents.

24.   Several promising blends, for which Bernier has filed a patent, are combinations of human-produced odors with and without lactic acid.

25.   In an interview with AFP, Fleury said he had filed a patent over the invention and was exploring many potential applications.

26.   Because of this the US scientists filed a patent for the genetic information they had discovered about the virus.