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They protect commercial monopoly instead of intellectual property.

He also abolished commercial monopolies, slavery, and civil lists for the royal family.

Some of these shady practices included creating commercial monopolies in areas he controlled militarily.

The charter granted the commercial monopoly to the West India Company.

However, the Company's commercial monopoly was ended, except for the tea trade and the trade with China.

The State must also encourage and foster private sector development through fair market competition and prevent commercial monopolies.

"And I'd maintain my commercial monopoly?"

However, the estates would do little more than abolish the obsolete marriage and inheritance laws and a few commercial monopolies.

The Merchant Adventurers had a commercial monopoly.

Prior to the launch of the new station, GWN held a commercial monopoly on the market.

These spices were mostly pepper and cinnamon at first, but soon included other products, all new to Europe which led to a commercial monopoly for several decades.

The Funanese established a strong system of mercantilism and commercial monopolies that would become a pattern for empires in the region.

Portuguese explorers discovered two trade routes to Asia, sailing around the south of Africa and the Americas to create a commercial monopoly.

Where government has been quick to react to commercial monopolies with antitrust legislation, it has been negligent when it comes to housing stock.

In 1840, when the slave trade was officially prohibited, the Duala turned to other sources of income, as their commercial monopoly was also on the decline.

A sixth-century Punic-Etruscan treaty reserved for Carthage a commercial monopoly in southern Iberia.

Terra is the seedbed and breeding ground of this upstart who refuses to recognize our trade cartels and our hard-won commercial monopolies.

Its commercial monopoly led to the resale price of sugar becoming prohibitive compared to that in its English competitors, Barbados and Jamaica.

He favoured a commercial monopoly as a way of meeting the expenses of colonization; for him, freedom of trade led only to anarchy, and produced nothing stable.

His defensive replies to questions about the company's policy on payola and its commercial monopoly in Minot, N.D., failed to resonate with the inquisitors.

This continuation (or even increase ) in commercial monopoly and duopoly in equipment supply of course went alongside the continuing monopoly of the core telephone network.

Mr. Meese ruled that The Free Press would be forced to close unless it was allowed to form a commercial monopoly with The News.

If we are clamping down on public monopolies, as we are doing a great deal at the moment, then there is absolutely no excuse for tolerating commercial monopolies.

The British emerged victorious in the battle, and the Portuguese defeat was a significant event in marking the beginning of the end of their commercial monopoly over western India.

He also promoted the economic development from the commercial monopoly and the mineral extraction of the argentiferous mines of Potosí, using the Inca institution called mita.