1.   Although the new shampoo is not yet available, Spiesel has obtained a patent for it and is meeting with potential manufacturers.

2.   A patent may be obtained by anyone for a process as well as a product.

3.   By the next year, Whitney had obtained a patent for his invention and moved back to New Haven.

4.   Complicating the issue, Glaxo has obtained patents on two forms of Zantac.

5.   Electronics maker Hitachi Ltd. obtained a patent in the U.S. on liquid crystal display technology.

6.   Federal law says a patent cannot be obtained if an invention has been on sale in this country for more than one year before the application is filed.

7.   Had Free already obtained a patent, these negotiations would have been unnecessary, because the patent would confirm his status as the inventor.

8.   He is obtaining a patent on vitamin K, which, he says, helps repair spider veins resulting from broken blood vessels.

9.   His father, who owned a garment business, had been a tinkerer who obtained half a dozen patents over the years.

10.   It is likely that he will hear contentions by Genentech that the university misled the Patent Office in obtaining its patent.