Sentence examples for demand licensing from inspiring English sources

The catch is that during the review the holder of the patent can't demand licensing fees, and the patent's life doesn't get extended accordingly.

It could use the patent at some point to stifle competitors or, more likely, to demand licensing fees.

His decision to force commercial and industrial guilds, or kabu nakama, into monopolistic associations and to demand licensing fees seems to have been aimed not so much at gaining contributions for the bakufu treasury as much as to establish control over the circulation of commercial goods, linking the city guilds with village producers.

But many companies say the competitive risk is outweighed by the benefit of making it difficult for someone else to win a patent -- a patent that could give the holder the right to demand licensing fees from all other users of the technology or technique.

Only last week, DoubleClick took out a patent on its ad serving technology and said it could use it to sue or demand licensing fees from its competitors.

When you start a station with a specific song, that song isn't the first thing you hear, because this would an entail an "on demand" license, which costs even more.

That's why we do things like regulate who drives cars, put warning signs for pregnant women on wine, demand licenses on dogs, check people for box cutters before they board airplanes — all common-sense activities by which we attempt to regulate the risks of our pleasures.

They will allow China to demand license fees from companies that do business there or to shut them out entirely.

In late July, it sent out more letters demanding licensing fees from educational organizations that offer Web-based classes.

In 2002, the company began sending out letters demanding licensing fees, largely from the lucrative online pornography industry.

"The Million Mom March is demanding licensing and registration, and the National Rifle Association says it can't happen here, it won't work," Mr. Pertschuk said.