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Non-exclusive licence

A licence that leaves the owner free to use the same rights and to license them to others. The know-how licence is non-exclusive because the group's 14 other factories use the same drawings. The KelderPlan licence is non-exclusive too. Licence 2.2 · Chapter 2 · see Exclusive licence

Explained in Chapter 2, The Grant: What, Where, How Long, of IP Licensing.

How it comes up, in Chapter 2
An exclusive licence keeps everyone else out, the owner included. Section 29(1) of the Trade Marks Act 1994 defines it that way: only the licensee may use the mark in the way the licence allows. A non-exclusive licence leaves the owner free to use the same rights and to license them to others.
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