The former deals with separate systems, just as enterprise software traditionally was about separate applications.
In 2000, the government estimated that an American trademark owner who wanted to register his mark in 10 countries faced $14,000 in fees for 10 separate applications.
He explained that to obtain a fishing permit from BHC, it is necessary to fill out separate applications to the state and the company.
A roving wiretap confers blanket authority to tap all phones a suspect uses, instead of requiring separate applications for each telephone.
Light, sandy soils suffer far more heavily than humus types, for example, and combinations of chemicals often seem to do more harm than separate applications.
Such inquiries are clearly separate applications for credit, and may be detrimental to your score, said Barrett Burns, president and chief executive of VantageScore Solutions.
Rather than being a collection of separate applications, it is a set of dozens of building blocks that can be assembled and rearranged like Lego pieces.
This requires innumerable separate applications, and vastly complicated rate structures.But also, given a choice, Internet users prefer transactions that are fun pornography and share-trading, for instance.
It is a chain of paperwork, but is still an easier, cheaper and more efficient way for trademark holders to secure worldwide protection than submitting separate applications to each country involved.
Under them, trademark applicants need file only one application to win protection in the countries belonging to the pact, instead of having to file separate applications with each nation.
Let's compare five years of work: Apple designs an innovative smartphone, sells millions of them, creates the App Store and approves 25,000 separate applications, which have been downloaded by users more than 800 million times.
