He is then typically granted the sole right to sell the product for 17-20 years from the time the patent application was filed.
It also has agreed to knock out the compulsory middlemen, the bane of businesses trying to penetrate China, who currently have the sole right to import, export and distribute products.
Under the so-called "dormant Commerce Clause" doctrine (dormant because it isn't actually written anywhere) the Supreme Court has interpreted the Commerce Clause in the Constitution, which gives Congress the sole right to regulate interstate commerce, as a mandate to strike down state laws that interfere with same.
In Israel, that right is the sole province of Orthodox rabbis.
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That Great Britain has the right to build, administer, and be sole owner of a railway connecting Haifa with area (b), and shall have a perpetual right to transport troops along such a line at all times.
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Nor, probably, does he think that the war on terror can be the sole organising principle of American policy right down to what attitude to take to Britain's relations with Europe.
The result is that Italy may, over the next few weeks, try to form a temporary government backed by a grand coalition of left and right-wing forces with the sole aim of changing Italy's electoral law and then going to a vote again as early as summer.
Then came the cable franchise, which gave Wharf the right to become the territory's sole cable provider for three years.
"This would be the sixth Florida Powerball winner and right now, it's the sole winner of the largest ever Powerball jackpot, " O'Connell told AP.
At the same time UNESCO is the sole institution of the UN responsible to promote the right of freedom of expression, as well as the freedoms of the press and information.
"This would be the sixth Florida Powerball winner and right now, it's the sole winner of the largest ever Powerball jackpot, " Florida Lottery executive Cindy O'Connell told The Associated Press.
But right now, we're doing our sole concentration at the Little Schubert on 42nd.
In that vein, a federal court of appeals recently ruled that Christian Louboutin owns trademark rights in his distinctive red outsoles since they identify him as the sole legitimate source of his shoes, while Yves Saint Laurent and other parties retain the right to produce and sell monochromatic red shoes (where both the outsoles and uppers are entirely red).
Right now, most advertisers rely on data about the last ad clicked as the sole indicator of what drove a sale.
And when Arafat's successor, Mahmoud Abbas, announced that Fatah didn't accept Israel's right to exist and considered terrorism against Israel legitimate, he was declared the indispensable and sole legitimate Palestinian leader.
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