It was not until July that federal regulators finally cleared Cyberonics' to start selling the VNS device to treat severe chronic depression in patients who did not respond to other therapies.

In an unrelated development yesterday, Johnson & Johnson said federal regulators had cleared its Cordis subsidiary to market a stent to prop open neck arteries.

The regulators cleared Prudential after it hired a company to perform a customer survey, which found only several isolated incidents of coerced sales.

Last month, the Canadian regulator cleared Mr. Ho and his wife, Betty Ho, of insider trading charges.

Indian regulators cleared the Bt brinjal, a genetically modified eggplant, for commercialisation in October 2009.

European regulators were considering the use of the European HIPERLAN standard, but in mid-2002 cleared 802.11a for use in Europe.

Hector Sants was in charge when the regulator cleared RBS to raise its dividend just weeks before the bank's record £12bn rights issue.

The problem was that European and Federal regulators and antitrust authorities had not cleared the deal yet.

In the spring of 1986, Soviet regulators finally cleared the way for Air France and Japan Airlines to fly nonstop Paris-Tokyo services over Soviet airspace, putting Finnair at a disadvantage.

The shares of the National Semiconductor Corporation rose sharply after Federal regulators cleared the way for its acquisition of the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation.