In May 2009, Frank, who had become the chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services in 2007, continued his efforts to "establish a framework to allow licensed gambling operators to process bets from players in the United States," with the support of the Poker Players Alliance and Harrah's Entertainment among others.
The railways ministry has concluded a framework agreement to license its technology to G.E., which is a world leader in diesel locomotives but has little experience with the electric locomotives needed for high speeds.
The football authorities have also announced a club licensing system from grassroots upwards that will provide a framework to make sure clubs operate within already agreed rules.
A framework to order the chaos.
"We had worked out a framework agreement with Unicom to license technology," said Irwin M. Jacobs, chief of Qualcomm.
The organization of German publishers, of course, is rather happy about the new law (though given that they do seem to be a bit behind the times, they would have probably preferred linking to their texts to be made illegal) and argues that it provides publishers with a framework for licensing their content to aggregators.
Applying this definition to radiopharmaceuticals underlines the clear distinction between the industrial manufacturing in a framework of "licensing" i.e. marketing authorisation or clinical trials aiming at a marketing authorisation versus the local, extemporaneous preparation of radiopharmaceuticals being it for patient diagnosis or within the framework of a local clinical trial.
German firm Offmaps also plans to license its mapping framework to other developers and companies.
In addition, most of these factors affect the willingness to license, but not whether a license actually takes place.
Due to a regulatory framework, only licensed users are allowed to utilize the respective spectrum and no one else is allowed to use the spectrum resources on their own.
