Sentences with phrase «replacement sales»

There have been many cases in the courts (e.g., improvements in telephones, tires, fluorescent lamps, flashlight bulbs) in which changes that would have greatly lengthened the life or quality of an article were withheld to promote replacement sales.11 Often patents have been taken out on superior inventions but not used, so that the improvements were completely suppressed and an outmoded product continued.

A class action lawsuit claims these dates are basically bogus, made up to goose replacement sales by drug makers who know the drugs are good for years, even decades, after the «use by» date.

When I got there, the sales person was apathetic, the replacement sales person he foisted us off on was eager, but woefully unprepared, and the car was not even on the lot, much less ready for me to see.

If the defendant wishes to say that the loss is less because the profit could have been earned in any event by a substitute or replacement sale, at the cost only of the expenditure of a lesser sum for the purpose of manufacturing or buying in further goods, the defendant bears the burden of proving that case.

In Louisiana the free look period lasts 10 days for new policy sales, and 30 days for any replacement sales.