31.   One case critics point to are the patent rights awarded to Human Genome Sciences.

32.   One possibility is that stronger legal protections for patent rights is motivating firms to patent inventions that they used to protect as trade secrets.

33.   Patent rights, he concludes, are indispensable.

34.   Robotics had claimed that the right to the patent would be lost under both plans because patent rights cannot be assigned from one party to another.

35.   So Hammond met with some venture capitalists and started Collateral Therapeutics, which quickly licensed the patent rights.

36.   Syngenta may own the patent rights, Kimbrell argues, but who will actually be giving out the seeds?

37.   The case arose after Intergraph asserted patent rights with a number of computer makers using Intel chips, which then sought indemnification from Intel.

38.   The commission says that Intel used its choke hold over the supply of Pentium chips to wrestle patent rights away from the three manufacturers.

39.   The company said it will acquire international patent rights to a chemical from an Italian company.

40.   The fights over patent rights included a confrontation between Bell and Thomas Edison.