1.   The problem is, only one of the companies apparently holds legitimate patent rights to the breakthrough.

2.   Also on the horizon are trade talks in Qatar that will deal with patent rights and a battle over prescription drug benefits in Medicare.

3.   Amgen and Genentech both lay claim to the patent rights.

4.   Arntzen said he was not concerned that Mycogen would try to exert patent rights on the vaccines he is working on for use against disease in developing countries.

5.   Bell Atlantic officials said they felt entitled to some of the patent rights for equipment in which they had financed much of the development.

6.   Both Quigley and Weider have licensed patent rights to their respective lozenges from Texas inventor George Eby.

7.   A few years ago, Mitsubishi bought patent rights to another package, called the dispenSRpak, designed by Redmond.

8.   Acutek recently acquired the patent rights for an internal nasal dilator.

9.   After Exxon closed Delphi, the patent rights were transferred to Gilbarco, another Exxon subsidiary.

10.   Bristol-Myers is also asking for patent rights to Erbitux and also to be allowed to sell other competing drugs, one person close to the situation said.