ANTISHELVING CLAUSE

antishelving  clause.Patents.  A  provision  in  a  patent-licensing  contract,  usu.  one  in  which

payment is based on royalties, requiring  the licensee  to  put the  patented article  into commercial

use  within  a  specified  time  and  to  notify  the  patentee  if  the  licensee  decides  to  stop  selling  or

manufacturing  it. • The licensee generally agrees to commercially exploit the  patent or  else risk

losing the license or exclusivity. Antishelving clauses are also used in trademark licenses. — Also

termed antishelving provision; shelving clause; shelving provision. [Cases: Patents    211(1). C.J.S.

Patents § 348.] [Blacks Law 8th]