31.   The decision did not go as far as owners of patent holders had hoped, however.

32.   The first patent holder conjured up his lure design after witnessing a fish attack a spoon that he had accidentally dropped from his lunch pail into a Vermont lake.

33.   The high court overruled an appeals court finding that would have automatically barred many patent holders who have amended their applications from suing their imitators.

34.   The high court ruling is a setback for patent holders, who generally presume that juries might be more sympathetic than judges when unraveling alleged patent infringement claims.

35.   The patent holders have agreed to charge no royalties for rice that is to be given free to poor farmers in developing countries.

36.   The organizations have pledged support to Kaiser Permanente, which in August sued the patent holder, Biomedical Patent Management Corp.

37.   The patent holder stands to reap millions of dollars selling cow clones genetically engineered to produce milk more efficiently.

38.   The patenting process has fueled a race between privately funded and publicly funded researchers to be the first discoverers and patent holders of genes.

39.   The same WTO rules that permit compulsory licenses also require negotiation of royalties payments to the drug patent holder.

40.   The U.S. Supreme Court upheld legal rules that let patent holders file lawsuits against rival inventions that are similar, but not identical, to patented products or processes.