71.   The accord is expected to make it easier for American corporations to process patent applications in Japan.

72.   The company is keeping the identity of the fungicide a secret, and has waited for patent applications to be granted before disclosing this new approach.

73.   The Clinton administration is moving to speed the development of bomb-detection systems and other antiterrorism devices by expediting patent applications.

74.   The company said it had been granted basic patents covering the technology and had been filing related patent applications at a rapid rate this year.

75.   The companies will be able to search for, and submit patent applications on, any gene sequences they think may lead to profitable medical products or treatments.

76.   The guidelines tell patent application examiners how to categorize software inventions.

77.   The industry also is pushing hard for speedier handling of its patent applications, which now can take five years or longer.

78.   The legislation also would require patent applications to be made public sooner in many cases.

79.   The patent application describes how the cells are made but provides no proof that they possess the properties to be expected of human embryonic stem cells.

80.   The plodding pace of the U.S. patent application process is what has inventors worried most about the new rules.