Sentence examples for obtaining monopoly from inspiring English sources

Changes to national registered design laws in Europe and the introduction of the Community design have brought inexpensive means of obtaining monopoly protection for images produced by computer software such as computer icons, screen displays and webpage designs.

He encouraged the formation of companies to build ships and tried to obtain monopolies for French commerce abroad through the formation of trading companies.

Michael Lacovara, a Microsoft lawyer who was questioning a Government witness, the economist Frederick R. Warren-Boulton, suggested to him during the trial today that the proposed acquisition undermined his argument that Microsoft seems headed toward obtaining a monopoly in Internet browser software to match the one it apparently holds in operating systems.

"No political body must ever, under any circumstances, obtain a monopoly of radio," she wrote.

Yet he specifically noted that the company had not obtained its monopoly in the market for personal computer operating systems illegally.

That is quite different, for example, from Standard Oil, which was broken up in 1911 after the courts found that it had illegally obtained its monopoly position.

But Microsoft is apparently in talks with News Corp. to obtain a monopoly over the right to make digital copies of News Corp's websites.

An author could obtain a monopoly on narration of historical events simply by being the first to discuss them in a reflective or analytical manner.

This clause allowed the federal government to obtain a monopoly on mail delivery and use government funds and legal rights to expand the postal network.

Another of the jailed bankers, Ricardo Fernández, obtained a monopoly contract to supply staple foods to Mercal, a state-owned chain of subsidised grocery stores.

The nobles also obtained a monopoly of ownership of inhabited estates, which in fact restricted ownership of agricultural serfs to the noble class.