21.   Novopharm received provisional Food and Drug Administration approval, pending the outcome of the patent infringement suit.

22.   Novopharm already has received provisional Food and Drug Administration approval, pending the outcome of the patent infringement suit.

23.   Novellus Systems Inc., which makes equipment for manufacturing semiconductor products, Friday lost a patent infringement suit to competitor Applied Materials Inc.

24.   Smith lost the copyright infringement suit in U.S. District Court in Detroit, but found a more sympathetic reception at the Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.

25.   That gave the states, their universities and agencies immunity to infringement suits.

26.   The appeals court upheld the continued validity of permitting infringement suits for similar, but not identical products.

27.   The broader the patent claim, the more likely an infringement suit will succeed.

28.   The cost of fighting a patent infringement suit would far outstrip their ability to pay, they said, with no assurance of success.

29.   The case before the court was a patent infringement suit by a bank.

30.   The letter prompted BioSphere, which claims its microspheres are protected by three patents, to file a patent infringement suit against Artes in US District Court in Delaware.