In a letter to the Center for Reproductive Rights denying the petition, the FDA disclosed for the first time that Teva would have had three years of exclusivity for full non-prescription sales of Plan B One-Step if the application had been approved.

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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.

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To qualify, an innovation must be novel, useful and non-obvious, which earns the inventor 20 years of exclusivity.

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