41.   The invention is potentially far more valuable for Ms. Hall, who has just sold her patent rights to the Ciba-Geigy Limited Group.

42.   The patent rights will be transferred to a newly formed company.

43.   The ruling also drew praise from advocates of a narrower reading of patent rights.

44.   The settlement calls for Cylink to give the patent rights to cryptography it developed at Stanford University to RSA Data, a unit of Security Dynamics Technologies Inc.

45.   The terms of that project required the researchers to assign all patent rights for their discoveries to the federal government.

46.   They became acquainted with the concepts of intellectual property and patent rights.

47.   This is the result of expiring patent rights and growing competition from lower-priced generic drugs.

48.   This time she led me to an entire alcove dedicated to oddly shaped inventions that could rival anything to which Bill Gates had patent rights.

49.   Though Intergraph asserted its patent rights with a number of computer companies, including IBM, it did not initially challenge Intel, which had become its key supplier.

50.   Ultimately, the company relinquished all patent rights to the product, now sold by others as mifepristone.