Everyone seems to think you can tell what a patent covers by looking at its name.

Clearly there is going to be some significant legal activity to figure out what Apple's patents actually cover.

Another patent on the foundation's list covers a way to make telephone calls over the Internet.

According to the press release, these patents cover the following methods and technologies.

The first one is that a patent covering software should be shorter.

A small company gets a big patent covering financial transactions from home computers.

A patent covering all these innovations was filed in 1865.

This patent covers not only the cells in question, but also any therapeutic use to which they may be put.

It is not clear, however, to what extent the patents in dispute would cover human cloning.

"The patent does not now and never has covered modern integrated circuit packaging."