YouTube will have an exclusive right to the content for a year, but the creators will retain ownership.
Once the protection expires, the first company to challenge the patent gets an exclusive right to sell the copy for 180 days.
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If the agreement is terminated, Tiffany would have an exclusive right for one year to sell any Peretti-designed products on hand or on order.
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In the U.S., a pharmaceutical company that goes out on a limb and develops a new treatment for a disease gets an exclusive right to market that compound for more than a decade.
Without registration, the trademark owner must first prove to a court that it indeed owns an exclusive right to use a trademark in order to prohibit use of confusingly similar terms by others.
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But AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people) has filed about a dozen patents on other aspects of the drug, and it says these should give it an exclusive right to sell Prilosec until at least 2007.
Even when an exclusive partnership is the right way to enter a target market, the start-up must still keep in mind the further growth of the company.
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This isn't an exclusive club -- right?
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The Department of Energy has applied for a patent on the technology, and Halstead's company has the right to an exclusive license.
Nagin would also have to get approval from the state and make a deal with Harrah's casino, which right now has an exclusive on gambling in the city.
Entrance to an exclusive private preschool is a painful right of passage for thousands of upscale New York moms every year, kicking off with a mad rush of speed dialing early in the morning the day after Labor Day to secure applications before schools run out of them.
But under the original contract used in the case decided yesterday, the copyright holder, Las Vegas Review-Journal parent Stephens Media, signed over only the right to sue while retaining an exclusive license to the content itself.
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And I think you and the other guys before me made the right decision about Super Bowl and being an exclusive advertiser.
For example, surrendering the prime minister's exclusive right to dissolve Parliament (and thus call an election) will matter little so long as the prime minister commands a majority in the House of Commons.
Also, if you talk about the decisions that were made by guys like you and other guys, prior to me, to be a major advertiser and an exclusive advertiser in the Super Bowl, I think those are the right decisions because brands like Budweiser and Bud light need to be in the fabric of pop culture.
Most papers (recycling an exclusive in yesterday's Australian) note that China has stayed rhetorically hawkish and refuses to rule out its right to use force.
Right on time for the market launch of iPhone in 2007, the BMW Group once again offered an exclusive technological solution for integrating iPhone in the infotainment system of its vehicles.
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