The second bill, the Welfare of Our Friends (WOOF) Act, H.R. 4691, addresses the fact that the USDA allows licensees with severe and multiple Animal Welfare Act violations to continue to
be licensed year after year.
All dogs and cats must
be licensed each year to a person 18 years of age or older.
With the reality of a down economy and more lawyers
being licensed every year, it can be difficult to find a job, let alone one using your legal skills.
It also doesn't matter if you are a seasoned professional or have
been licensed a year, you understand all too well the turbulence created when regulatory changes effect.
For background I've been investing for ~ 6 years, got
my RE license this year and work full time in banking.
Not exact matches
All states have different laws, but typically there
's a limit to the number of vehicles you can sell each
year before you
're required to obtain a dealer
's license.
Hasbro won the key Disney Princess
license from Mattel and 2016
was the first
year that Hasbro began to make toys under the pact.
Ferrick said that her songs have
been streamed or temporarily downloaded one million times in the past three
years over Spotify but said the company did not
license them as required.
«The hardest part
was licensing and permitting,» says Fox, who has a dealer's
license and plans to start a classic car investment fund this
year.
Add to that other platform
licensing deals Tehrani's business has lined up with Merck & Co., Eli Lilly and Co. and Celgene Corp. in recent
years, and Zymeworks
is set to receive a revenue stream of up to $ 4 billion, plus royalties.
Last
year, it
was all about Frozen, which generated over $ 500 million in toy sales in the U.S. alone, but this
year's slate should boost
licensing toy sales even more.
By recognizing that the marketplace
is changing, Volk - Weiss, in response to that change, has built a 120 - person company that he says grew its revenue (from
licensing, streaming, and production fees, product sales, and ad - revenue sharing) more than 100 percent annually over the past three
years — and more than 200 percent over the past two.
But while the toffee
was up to its usual standard, the 80 -
year - old candy maker started to let business - related things like
licenses lapse.
One notable success
is Joan Beiriger, who has spent the last fifteen
years successfully
licensing her artwork and researching the art
licensing market.
In recent
years the value of patents that have
been monetized through acquisitions or
licensing has neared $ 200 billion, and yet that represents a tiny portion of all patent grants.
AT&T and Time Warner said in a filing on Tuesday that Time Warner's Turner unit had offered its distributors
licensing terms that forbid Turner from «going dark» on any distributor for seven
years after the deal closes if they
were to reach an impasse in negotiations.
«I think we'll
be on target to do a lot more [e-money
licenses] this
year.
Revolut praised the country as «one of the most exciting fintech hubs in Europe right now» in a statement last
year announcing they
were applying for a banking
license there.
The cost of a
license is $ 91 per
year of activity, and late fees for drivers who did not register by August 31 total $ 155 (late fee plus administrative fee), according to the city treasurer's office.
InterDigital, a U.S. company that earns money by suing and securing
licensing agreements for its patents,
was unable to find a buyer last
year.
Hoffman sees a future for the company that includes
licensing for other Hanukkah - centric items like chocolate gelt, candles, wrapping paper and dreidles — all of which
are in the works to
be available to customers next
year.
This
year Neukamm says about 250 farmers will
be licensed to grow the crop.
The shift has squeezed margins in recent
years because the cloud business model
is based on subscriptions which take longer to pay off — in contrast to one - off, up - front software
license payments that
was the thrust of its business for decades.
Last
year, Sawyer Sparks, 23, turned down a $ 500,000 offer from Hasbro, maker of Play - Doh, to
license his patented gluten - free modeling clay, called Soy - Yer Dough (that
's blueberry blue, above).
The
license would give SpaceX six
years to deploy all the satellites, although the FCC
is also looking at a petition from SpaceX to waive the time constraint.
So you
're not profitable in the model for at least three to five
years, and then what you would hope
is that you can start doing
licenses for shoes, bags, things like that and make your money.
The budget for the Department of Energy would include $ 120 million to restart
licensing for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a project that has
been stalled for
years because of lawsuits and local opposition.
And insofar as the government
is about to «change the rules,» taking the five -
year prohibition on
license transfer and extending it a further five
years... as you change the rules you effect the marketplace, and disrupt the balance that government strives to offer, so I see a refund as a valid mechanism and a cunning tactic for both sides.
Maybe it
was in the 10
years after, when the trademark
was licensed to various third - party manufacturers and the name
was slapped on everything from MP3 players to paper shredders.
Product of the
Year is a program used under
license by Rogers.
The uptick in the shares reflects a belief that Netflix
is now in a position to sign up more subscribers this
year than analysts had previously anticipated, generating additional revenue that the company can spend on TV series and movies as it bids against rivals such as HBO, Amazon.com, YouTube and Hulu for
licensing rights.
Urmson has publicly stated in that past, though, that he believes that fully autonomous self - driving car technology will
be available before his 12 -
year - old son needs to get his drviers»
license.
VF earlier this
year landed a deal to sell its
licensed sports business to online retailer Fanatics but investors have
been clamoring for a larger deal that would make the company a bigger player in a growing category.
Microsoft's $ 20.5 billion in revenue
is down more than $ 1 billion from the same period a
year before, depressed by continued decline in its Windows consumer
licensing business.
Its latest revelation came last week: for its 2015 fiscal
year, Cloudera's unaudited revenue topped $ 100 million (the CEO won't disclose by how much), two - third of which
are attributable to software
licenses (not deployment services).
Lowe himself
is on a one -
year sabbatical to run Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition, an imaging start - up born out of a
licensing deal with a Carnegie Mellon scientist.
For
years Sarandos
was tasked with cutting
licensing deals with studios and networks — helping those content creators make more money from their catalogues.
The first
was in his headline: He estimates that through
licensing deals to secure its search engine as the default option on Apple's phones, Google will pay Apple $ 3 billion in fees in Apple's fiscal
year 2017.
Over the 52
years that I've
been a
licensed pilot I've met numerous people that
are afraid of flying.
As Fortune has noted in the past, Spotify's biggest problem
is that it
is still losing hundreds of millions of dollars every
year, and the main culprit
is the massive payments it makes to the music industry for
licensing fees.
The findings
are in line with a report released by The NPD Group reported earlier this
year, which said sales of
licensed toys outperformed the industry as a whole by rising 3 percent in 2013.
Citing its own statistics, the company claims that last
year 53 drivers who failed background checks to become Uber drivers have
been issued chauffeur's
licenses by the City of Austin.
Amazon has
been shipping the basic versions of Kindle into Canada for
years now, but the original Fire tablet — which
is tied heavily to the company's movie - and music - selling businesses — has not yet
been made available, presumably because of the hassles involving
licensing rights.
Alimentation Couche - Tard has 12,750 stores and 15,970 locations, including those
licensed under the Circle K brand and those that
are part of last
year's merger with wholesale fuels distributor CrossAmerica Partners LP.
Not only
are these
licenses not free, but you'll
be charged for
years you previously drove without one.
When the chief of Microsoft Ukraine switched jobs to work for President Petro Poroshenko [in 2014], he found that everyone in the [president's] office used the same login password... Sometimes pressing the spacebar
was enough to open a PC... Most computers run on pirated software, and even when
licensed programs
are used, they can
be years out of date and lack security patches to help keep the hackers at bay.
After attaining a
license from the province or territorial's association of professional engineers, spend three or four
years doing supervised work, pass a practical exam, and you
're golden.
Jack Brocksmith, president of TAG Express, a $ 4.8 - million
S corporation in Duluth, Ga., that
licenses sports - team products: «We switched to an
S corporation only a few
years ago because of the tax laws.
In the U.S. market, the vast majority of smartphones
are at a price heavily subsidized by wireless carriers, along with a two -
year service contract — which further obscures the effect of
licensing fees on phone prices.
Apple recently unveiled some news that may
be surprising to some: in the past quarter, revenue of its services division (including Apple Music, Apple Pay, AppleCare, the App Store, iTunes Store, iCloud,
licensing, among other services) jumped 34 percent
year over
year.