After a protracted, hysterical trial scene more notable for the frankness of its language than for dramatic credibility, the jury, to no one's surprise, leaves the legal question unresolved.

After a protracted development cycle the initial AAM-N-2 Sparrow entered limited operational service in 1954 with specially modified Skyknights all weather carrier night fighters.

After a protracted siege, during which the Mongol army under Jani Beg was suffering the disease, they catapulted the infected corpses over the city walls to infect the inhabitants.

After a protracted struggle Mexico declared its independence from Spain in 1810.

* February 23 – After protracted testimony, the U. S. Senate Armed Services Committee rejects, 11 – 9, President Bush's nomination of John Tower for Secretary of Defense.

After a protracted siege and various skirmishes, the Meccans withdrew again.

After protracted difficulties in obtaining the production of his opera, Mussorgsky was compliant with Nápravník's demands, and even defended these mutilations to his own supporters.

After a protracted siege ended on 8 September of the same year, which became known in history as the Great Siege, the Ottoman Empire conceded defeat as the approaching winter storms threatened to prevent them from leaving.

After a protracted courtship, Elizabeth agreed to marry him.

After a protracted series of bitter court battles, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the president had to hand over the tapes to government investigators ; he ultimately complied.

After a protracted struggle, the government withdrew the tax.

After Kennedy's assassination, Johnson ordered in more US forces to support the Saigon government, beginning a protracted United States presence in Southeast Asia.

After protracted haggling the two leaders met near Pontoise on 19 August 1359 ; on the second day Charles of Navarre publicly renounced all his demands for territory and money, saying he wanted nothing more than what he had at the beginning of hostilities and ' wanted nothing more than to do his duty to his country '.

After protracted negotiations on costs and conditions, the work was completed by 1810 so that boats drawing 5 ' 9 " could pass from Athlone to Killaloe.

After protracted and testy negotiations, Fields agreed to a reduced stake of 25 % in the airline ( renamed Virgin Atlantic ) and became its first chairman.

After a protracted illness, he died at home of a heart attack on 27 November 1955 and was interred in the Saint-Vincent Cemetery in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris.

After a protracted campaign South Uist residents took control of the island on 30 November 2006 in Scotland's biggest community land buyout to date.

After a protracted campaign, local residents took control of parts of the island on 30 November 2006 in a community buy-out.

After a protracted lawsuit that lasted five years and cost $ 1. 3 million, The Kingsmen won the rights to their song " Louie Louie ".

After protracted negotiations, they absorbed the Stainforth and Keadby Canal in 1849.

After a protracted siege, he took Rhegium in 386 and sold the inhabitants as slaves.

After a protracted war, the Treaty of the Pyrenees ( 1659 ) secured Roussillon and part of the Cerdanya ( Cerdagne ) to the French crown, creating the French province of Roussillon.

After a protracted legal battle, Besant took custody of Krishnamurti and Nitya.

After serving two years, he resigned as president of the World Bank Group ending what a Reuters report called " a protracted battle over his stewardship, prompted by his involvement in a high-paying promotion for his companion.

After his patent was rejected by the Telegraph Administration, Mimault modified his device to incorporate features from the Meyer telegraph and obtained a new patent which was also rejected.

After her husband's death, Marion Armstrong became extraordinarily wealthy as a result of successful FM patent litigation against RCA and other companies.

After DuPont lost out to Roche on that sale, the company unsuccessfully disputed Mullis's patent on the alleged grounds that PCR had been previously described in 1971.

After the invention of malted barley roasted until black to impart a darker colour and distinct burnt taste to the beer in 1817, Irish brewers dropped the use of brown malt, using patent malt and pale malt only, while English brewers continued using some brown malt, giving a difference in style between English and Irish porters.

After the patent was granted in 1916, the technology was immediately commercially applied to akoya pearl oysters in Japan in 1916.

After further refinements, Dopyera applied for a patent on the so-called tri-cone guitar on April 9, 1927.

After World War II, military frogmen of all countries continued to use rebreathers ( since they do not make bubbles and thus are not visible from the surface ) and Air Liquide started selling commercially the Cousteau-Gagnan regulator as of 1946 under the name of scaphandre Cousteau-Gagnan or CG45 (" C " for Cousteau, " G " for Gagnan and 45 for a new 1945 patent ).

After expiration of the patent, competitors can copy the method or product legally.

After hearing about the rigid airship constructed by David Schwarz and witnessing its trial flight at the Tempelhof Airfield near Berlin on 3 November 1897, he proceeded to buy the patent rights from the widow of the prematurely deceased Schwarz, in order to allow Carl Berg to supply aluminium.

* January 9 – After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business.

After the election of Abraham Lincoln, having lived with relatives and friends in Massachusetts for three years, she returned to work at the patent office in the autumn of 1860, now as temporary copyist, in the hope she could pioneer to make way for more women in government service.

After the expiration of the first ( 1978 ) arithmetic coding patent, range encoding appeared to clearly be free of patent encumbrances.

After litigation, a court found for Prodigy, ruling that British Telecom's patent did not cover web hyperlinks.

After a long legal battle, Edison emerged the victor, and the Berliner patent was ruled invalid by both American and British courts.

After concluding patent disputes over generic ribavirin availability in 2003, Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals, LLC in conjunction with Par Pharmaceutical, was approved in 2005 to market ribavirin as Ribosphere capsules.

After Lane's colonists returned to England in 1586 Sir Walter Raleigh, who held the land patent for the proposed English colony of Virginia, tasked White with the job of organizing a new colony in the Chesapeake Bay area, one which would be self-sustaining and which would include women and children.

After 1884, several companies and entrepreneurs bought or inherited the patent and produced it until 1965.

After the war, in 1946, both men founded La Spirotechnique ( as a division of Air Liquide ) in order to mass produce and sell their invention, this time under a new 1945 patent, and known as CG45 (" C " for Cousteau, " G " for Gagnan and " 45 " for 1945 ).

After his death in 1715 Savery's patent and Act of Parliament became vested in a company, The Proprietors of the Invention for Raising Water by Fire.

After the war, in 1920, Armstrong sold the patent for the superheterodyne to Westinghouse, who subsequently sold it to RCA.

After a patent for the land, located on a buffalo trail, was obtained in 1872, the first settlers lived in tents.

After receiving a patent, Froelich started up the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company, investing all of his assets, which by 1895, all would be lost and his business resigned to become a failure.