Fifth, if you are approached with potentially invalidating prior art, you may wish to force your own patents to be examined ex parte in order to save both the time and multi-million dollar costs involved with litigation.

FORBES: The Strategic Use of Patent Reexamination

She has now examined the brains of sixteen ex-athletes, most of them ex-football players.

NEWYORKER: Offensive Play

But all sixteen of the ex-athlete brains that McKee had examined those of the two boxers, plus the ones that Nowinski had found for her had something in common: every one had abnormal tau.

NEWYORKER: Offensive Play