Sentence examples for monopoly rights from inspiring English sources

These laws extended monopoly rights for brand-name drugs.

"So they're not just an excuse to give away very substantial monopoly rights.

Governments are racked by "rent-seeking", whereby firms aim to capture financial returns through special government privileges or monopoly rights.

Put positively, a limit on monopoly rights to creative work allows the public domain to come into being.

It busts tariffs and other trade barriers by introducing online competition (in banking, say); the tycoons rely on closed markets and monopoly rights.

The English venture to India was entrusted to the (English) East India Company, which received its monopoly rights of trade in 1600.

There are two forms of monopoly rights-patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and exclusivity granted by the Food and Drug Administration FDAA).

(2) They were not to undertake manufacturing; transformation of raw materials into finished goods remained a monopoly right of the mother country.

"Having a trademark registration gives the owner a monopoly right that could last forever if it is looked after, and that is why courts are careful to award these rights.

To be sure, some of these things were terrific improvements over what existed before the iPhone's arrival, but to award a monopoly right to finger gestures and rounded rectangles is to stretch the definition of "novel" and "non-obvious" to breaking-point.A proliferation of patents harms the public in three ways.

The federal government, however, does not enforce the monopoly right; the inventor, patent owner, or licensee bears the burden of enforcement.