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Grammar people, how would you parse this:

Company X grants to Company Y, under X's PATENTS, nonexclusive and nontransferable licenses to make, have made, use, lease, sell, import, and otherwise dispose of (and practice methods and processes for the use of) any or all products and services of the kinds which are furnished or used by Company Y or any of its present or RELATED COMPANIES in the operation of the business in which it is engaged on the effective date of this Agreement.

Specifically, what modifies what - especially the phrase "on the effective date of this Agreement." Grammatically, is this referring to the products/ services that were used by Company Y on the effective date of the agreement? Or is this referring to the business that Company Y was in on the effective date of the agreement?

eta: My answer would be that it is referring to the business that Company Y was in on the effective date of the agreement, because when I have to look at things that are this convoluted, I start by taking out what I think is extraneous material, which would leave us with this:

1.01 (a) X grants to Y[snip] nonexclusive and nontransferable licenses to make [snip] any or all products and services of the kinds which are furnished or used by Y [snip] in the operation of the business in which it is engaged on the effective date of this Agreement.

Company X grants to Company Y lisences on the effective date of this Agreement.

beth, that link was fabulous! i'm now watching all his other vids.

to be clear about what i said about Usain Bolt, i'm less referring to his reactions after his races than i am the way he acts beforehand. directly after the races, i didn't really see anything i would call showboating.

prepare yourself for this, looked around toward the end of the race?

He also waggled his baton and made the #1 sign and kissed it as he crossed the finish line. In my opinion you aren't #1 for winning a heat unless you have some record in hand when you do it, and even then it's indicative of poor planning. Y'aint #1 till you walk away with the gold, so be careful.

Some Britons Too Unruly for Resorts in Europe

MALIA, Greece — Even in a sea of tourists, it is easy to spot the Britons here on the northeast coast of Crete, and not just from the telltale pallor of their sun-deprived northern skin.

They are the ones, the locals say, who are carousing, brawling and getting violently sick. They are the ones crowding into health clinics seeking morning-after pills and help for sexually transmitted diseases. They are the ones who seem to have one vacation plan: drinking themselves into oblivion.

“They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit,” Malia’s mayor, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, said in an interview. “It is only the British people — not the Germans or the French.”

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Local officials say the blame lies not just with the tourists themselves, but also with the operators of package tours promising drinking-and-partying vacations, and clubs offering industrial-strength alcohol at rock-bottom prices. For about $50 in Malia, tourists can go on unlimited-drinking pub crawls.

Company X grants to Company Y lisences on the effective date of this Agreement.

Unfortunately, I don't think it's that straight-forward.

“They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit,”

Sounds like San Francisco.

I read that article, tommyrot...I thought it was sad. I mean, I've been known to drink too much on occasion, but...dude. What kind of vacation is that, just drinking til you puke every damn night and all day? How can that be fun?? I mean, beyond being safe, or healthy?

made the #1 sign and kissed it as he crossed the finish line.

OK, I didn't see that part. That sounds somewhat douchey.