1.   Alternatively, cross-licensing agreements might be negotiated -- or the whole question could be rendered moot by further innovations, attorneys say.

2.   By the time the order took effect, however, the issue had already become moot.

3.   The fear that airstrikes could endanger troops is moot now that the army is withdrawing.

4.   Whether chocolate is an aphrodisiac or whether it lives up to its reputation as a substitute for love is moot.

5.   I think they were wrong, but the point is moot.

6.   The court ruled that the issue is now moot because the people involved in the dispute have died.

7.   Although the lawsuit against the Rio is continuing, the case may be moot.

8.   Although the tape dispute became moot with the settlement, the Second Circuit, which had already begun considering the case, went ahead and ruled anyway.

9.   An EU rejection of Atlas could render Phoenix moot.

10.   An appeals court later ruled the case moot when the young woman violated her parole by using drugs.