1.   Although it is unusual for a start-up, the company has a team of in-house patent lawyers to protect its inventions.

2.   An accomplished photographer, Rich was also renowned among patent lawyers and judges for his curiosity and ease with gadgets and the mechanics of everyday appliances.

3.   An obvious candidate is Todd Dickinson, a Philadelphia patent lawyer who earlier this year was appointed deputy commissioner.

4.   And, according to patent lawyers, it could dissuade other states with similar plans in the works.

5.   A Washington patent lawyer is challenging a fundamental patent issued last summer to Priceline.com Inc.

6.   But Hanchuk, the patent lawyer, expects this sorting-out period to be tumultuous.

7.   But leading patent lawyers oppose the measure.

8.   Corporate defendants and patent lawyers have long griped intellectual property litigation is too complex to leave to the likes of plumbers, housewives, mailmen and music teachers.

9.   Daniel Mahoney, a son of Daniel W. Mahoney, a patent lawyer, and the former Louisa D. Dunbar, was born in Orange, N.J.

10.   Even now, investors and patent lawyers consider the current average wait, a little over two years, much too long.