Under the agreement, the international luxury retail jeweler will continue to be the exclusive sales outlet for jewelry created by Peretti.
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Patents usually protect the companies for 20 years of exclusive sales.
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And because no common law governs software and Internet-access transactions, proponents say manufacturers have nearly exclusive power to decide software sales terms.
While mainstream merchants like Wal-Mart have been posting low single-digit percentage gains in comparable store sales, more exclusive outfits like Saks, Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus like clockwork have been posting gains of 10%-25% in monthly sales comparisons for most of the past year.
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Apple have always made the bulk of their revenue via hardware sales, driven by great and exclusive software (exclusive to their platforms). iLife?
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This would be equivalent to a 30% sales tax rate, as normally calculated (exclusive method).
Exclusive of the Gap, analysts are anticipating same-store sales growth of 1.9% for apparel stores.
Bristol-Myers Squibb already has perhaps the best oncology sales force in the U.S., where it will have exclusive rights to the drug.
Dow Agro will likely sign an exclusive commercial licensing agreement with Sangamo between now and October, paying it royalties on sales of products developed using zinc finger proteins.
While a drug is protected by a patent, the company has the exclusive right to sell it--and that often results in a single drug bringing in sales of billions of dollars.
Black Ops 2 and Halo 4, the latter an Xbox Exclusive and the former mostly played on Xbox, had a lot to do with the still-impressive Xbox sales.
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