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That same year, he obtained an exclusive patent to print law books.

However, I am aware that I do not have an exclusive patent on truth.

He received thousands of dollars from each man in return for the promise of the exclusive patent rights."

With the debut of the 914, Xerox was granted 15-year exclusive patent rights to xerography.

Despite the survey, the company was unable to secure an exclusive patent from the States General for the area between the 38th and 40th parallels.

After Bell's exclusive patents expired, rival telephone companies sprang up all over America.

Lilly's exclusive patent on Prozac expires in December 2003.

But these drugs are under exclusive patent protection, are expensive and thus out of reach of these people.

The Upjohn Company, which also lost exclusive patent rights to important products last year, has also been mentioned as a possible takeover target.

Bristol-Myers sold $1.5 billion of Taxol last year, but its exclusive patent on the medication has expired.

In 2080 the United States loses its exclusive patents on Y-energy, leading to a massive economic depression.

At the same time, the approaching expiration of the the exclusive patents on many best-selling drugs of the 1990's has given pharmaceutical companies other worries.

Reporters suggested the company was being greedy and unpatriotic for maintaining exclusive patent and production rights to a substance in such popular demand.

Queen Elizabeth granted Darcey an exclusive patent in 1598 for the manufacture, importation and sales of playing cards.

The Court refused to hear a case challenging an exclusive patent on the leading AIDS medication.

The Asscher Diamond Company held its exclusive patent until the Second World War and saw strong sales internationally.

So, perhaps predictably, as the drug edges into adolescence and Lilly's exclusive patent on the medication nears expiration, Prozac is once more causing a stir.

Has the Eli Lilly company really tested it on children (one way of extending an exclusive patent) yet sold it as a remedy for premenstrual problems?

Most importantly, the Python Software Foundation would not assert exclusive patent rights, and Guido works for Google...

He is popular for his Brand India image with exclusive patents (copyrights) on Bandgala Jackets, and Jodhpurs.

There had been mounting pressure on Nutrasweet to develop another product because the exclusive patents it holds on aspartame will start to expire around the world in 1992.

In 1551, Henry II granted Abel a 10 year exclusive patent monopoly on the holometer in exchange for publishing a description of it.

In 1999, a company called Spectrasensors Inc acquired exclusive patent rights from NASA and Caltech to commercialize gas sensor technology.

Critics also question the rationale that exclusive patent rights and the resulting high prices are required for pharmaceutical companies to recoup the large investments needed for research and development.

"But there are a lot of natural substances known for centuries that no one will do the necessary work on because they could not get exclusive patent protection and wouldn't recoup their research costs."