21.   Patent attorneys said such a shotgun response is typical for a company facing a patent lawsuit.

22.   Patent attorneys, company officials and lobby groups all weighed in with impassioned defenses of what they portrayed as a life-saving industry.

23.   Stanley Amberg, a patent attorney in New York, said the appeals court had gone too far with the State Street ruling.

24.   Stuart Watt, a patent attorney for Amgen, objected strongly to this interpretation.

25.   The change, while seemingly subtle, has enormous ramifications for patent attorneys and inventors and the strategies they pursue to maximize patent protection.

26.   The push to commercialize genetic information has also led to a flood of patents and patent applications, providing full employment to patent attorneys.

27.   Those different outlooks illustrate why TKT has become one of the most watched biotechnology companies, not only by Wall Street but by patent attorneys and other industry executives.

28.   Unlike intellectual property lawyers, patent attorneys must have a technical background and are required to register with the US Patent and Trademark Office after passing a qualifying exam.

29.   Washington-based patent attorney Don Banner says the requested patent rules change is a concession to Japan agreed to by U.S. Patent Commissioner Bruce Lehman last January.

30.   You can get a patent attorney for a day.