The absence of deadlines allows battles to fester over intellectual property, key people and other assets.
"In the name of policing the online theft of intellectual property, key lawmakers are pushing a cure that's worse than the disease," Lanham Napier, the chief executive of Rackspace, a Web hosting business, wrote on the company's blog in December.
The end of the cold war, for him, had two key intellectual consequences.
SAIC had already paid 'a sum' (£67m for key intellectual property rights).
And this whole concept of intellectual-property creation and then being able to protect content or intellectual property is key.
Similarly, he doesn't mention Marxism, his key intellectual framework, until the final chapters of that book.
An old friend of Mr. Sarkozy's, the public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, brought key Libyans to see Mr. Sarkozy in early March.
Third, the expertise and professionalism of their research staffs are the key intellectual resources of think tanks and a way of legitimizing their findings.
Chief among the Tonycrats is L.S.E.'s new director, Anthony Giddens, the distinguished Cambridge sociologist who is called "the key intellectual figure of New Labour".
Activision, recognising Call of Duty as its key intellectual property, has not been shy when it comes to throwing resources at it.
