The libraries' brief accused Congress of "transforming a limited monopoly into a virtually limitless one."

Copyright has come to be viewed both as a natural law right of the author and as the statutory grant of a limited monopoly.

Governments' grant of limited monopolies to inventors under a developing patent system (the Statute of Monopolies 1623) is considered an influential factor.

Thus, patent laws require that an inventor, in a quid pro quo exchange for the limited monopoly that a patent provides, disclose his methods to others.

It's a government granted, limited monopoly on a given method of doing something.

The patent system itself, conceived to reward human innovation with a limited monopoly, will eventually have to be modified, Dr. Pollack said.

Patents are legal instruments intended to encourage innovation by providing a limited monopoly to the inventor (or their assignee) in return for the disclosure of the invention.

Its role is to administer 23 international treaties dealing with different aspects of limited monopolies on knowledge.

Copyrights were originally granted to the creator by the public, through Congress, as a limited monopoly on their product to encourage future productivity.

In some cases, authors can be granted limited legal monopolies on the manner in which certain works are expressed.