Last week it was announced that Davidson and Gores added an additional 14 days to the exclusivity period.
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After receiving the offers from A and B, Palm told HP that it wouldn't give it an exclusivity period unless it improved its offer, and HP declined.
The biggest worry is that Pfizer's strategy, if copied, will make the 180-day exclusivity period worth far less, and thus discourage generics firms from challenging patents in the first place.
Billabong said the 10-day exclusivity period of takeover talks would allow Sycamore to engage an "internationally recognised accounting firm to complete a confirmatory quality of earnings analysis, typical of an acquisition debt financing".
Fitzgerald admitted there is an "exclusivity period" whereby no non-event-related activities can take place on the ground 21 days prior to the first tournament match or 14 days prior to the first warm-up game.
To encourage generics makers to challenge patents on drugs, and introduce cheaper copies, an American law passed in 1984 says that the first one to do so will get a 180-day exclusivity period, in which no other generics maker can sell versions of the drug in question, as Ranbaxy supposedly won with Lipitor.
One solution: Offer drug companies a set period of exclusivity, without fear of patent challenges, after a drug is approved.
At the time this process was initiated, neither orphan drug status or even the more limited Hatch Waxman period of exclusivity was guaranteed.
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Saints had entered a period of exclusivity with the Pinnacle group to arrange a takeover but that passed on 19 June without an agreement.
If the government decides certain additional studies are needed to ensure that the drug is safe, an additional period of exclusivity would be added.
Pinnacle saw its period of exclusivity as bidders end on 19 June without agreement being reached as the takeover bid stalled over the 10-point issue.
Imagine if Apple partnered with a cable, satellite or telephone company as a device for some period of exclusivity on that network, and simply provided a much better user experience.
The loan made by Luton Town Football Club 2020 Limited, which is funded by a number of business people who support the club and two former players - Steve Foster and Godfrey Ingham - buys them a period of exclusivity until end February 2008 while a sale is negotiated.
"The limited period of marketing exclusivity made possible by patents ensures that the costs associated with the research and development of innovative medicines can be recovered, " the company said.
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