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Limited Use Label Licenses (LULL)
     Luciferase Limited Use Label License
     Caliper Limited Use Label License
     ddRNAi System Limited Use Label License
     FuGENE® HD Transfection Reagent Limited Use Label License
     GloSensor™ cAMP Assay Products Limited Use Label License
     HaloTag® Ligand Limited Use Label License
     HaloTag® Vector Limited Use Label License
     Monster Green® Fluorescent Protein Limited Use Label License
     Protease-Glo™ Assay Products Limited Use Label License
     Regulated Mammalian Expression System and Vector Limited Use Label License

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Promega Copyright Statement
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Trademarks

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Promega products may be covered by pending or issued patents or may have certain limitations. Please visit the  Promega online catalog for more information.

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Limited Use Label Licenses (LULL)

Luciferase Limited Use Label License
     CheckMate™/Flexi® Mammalian Two-Hybrid Vectors and System
     CheckMate™ Mammalian Two-Hybrid Vectors and System
     Chroma-Luc™ Vectors
     GloResponse™ Luciferase Reporter Cell Lines
     pBIND-ERα Vector 
     pBIND-GR Vector 
     pF9A CMV hRluc-neo Flexi® Vector 
     pFN26A (BIND) hRluc-neo Flexi® Vector 
     pGL3 Luciferase Reporter Vectors
     pGL4 Luciferase Reporter Vectors
     pmirGLO Dual-Luciferase miRNA Target Expression Vector
     psiCHECK™ Vectors
     pSP-luc+NF Fusion Vector

BY USE OF THIS PRODUCT, RESEARCHER AGREES TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LIMITED USE STATEMENT. If the researcher is not willing to accept the conditions of this limited use statement, and the product is unused, Promega will accept return of the unused product and provide the researcher with a full refund.
Researchers may use this product for research use only, no commercial use is allowed. Commercial Use means any and all uses of this product and derivatives by a party for monetary or other consideration and may include but is not limited to use in: (1) product manufacture; and (2) to provide a service, information or data; and/or resale of the product or its derivatives, whether or not such product or derivatives are resold for use in research. Researchers shall have no right to modify or otherwise create variations of the nucleotide sequence of the luciferase gene except that Researchers may: (1) create fused gene sequences provided that the coding sequence of the resulting luciferase gene has no more than four deoxynucleotides missing at the affected terminus compared to the intact luciferase gene sequence, and (2) insert and remove nucleic acid sequences in splicing research predicated on the inactivation or reconstitution of the luminescence of the encoded luciferase. No other use or transfer of this product or derivatives is authorized without the prior express written consent of Promega. In addition, Researchers must either: (1) use luminescent assay reagents purchased from Promega Corporation for all determinations of luminescence activity of this product and its derivatives; or (2) contact Promega to obtain a license for use of the product and its derivatives. Researchers may transfer derivatives to others for research use provided that at the time of transfer a copy of this label license is given to the recipients and recipients agree to be bound by the terms of this label license. With respect to any uses outside this label license, including any diagnostic, therapeutic or prophylactic uses, please contact Promega for supply and licensing information. PROMEGA MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING FOR MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE WITH REGARDS TO THE PRODUCT. The terms of this agreement shall be governed under the laws of the State of Wisconsin, USA. The above license relates to Promega patents and/or patent applications on improvements to the luciferase gene.

Caliper Limited Use Label License
     EnduRen™ in vivo Renilla Luciferase Substrate
     pGL4.50[luc2/CMV/Hygro] Vector
     pGL4.51[luc2/CMV/Neo] Vector
     VivoGlo™ Caspase-3/7 Substrate Sodium Salt (Z-DEVD-Aminoluciferin, Sodium Salt)
     VivoGlo™ Luciferin-Beta-Galactoside Substrate (6-O-Beta-Galactopyranosyl-Luciferin)
     VivoGlo™ Luciferin, in vivo Grade
     ViviRen™ in vivo Renilla Luciferase Substrate

The use of this product and derivatives thereof is strictly limited to that of a life sciences research reagent. All other use is strictly prohibited, including but not limited to any diagnostic, therapeutic, or commercial use. The use of this product for in vivo bioluminescent imaging may be covered by one or more patents controlled by Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. Those patents include U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,650,135, 6,217,847, 6,923,951, 6,908,605, 6,890,515, and corresponding foreign patents and pending applications. The purchase or transfer of this product is not intended, either expressly or by implication, to grant any right or license to practice under the foregoing patents. Purchasers are advised to contact Caliper Life Sciences, Inc., 68 Elm St., Hopkinton, MA 01748 for information regarding a license to practice under such patents.

ddRNAi System Limited Use Label License
     GeneClip™ U1 Hairpin Cloning Systems

This product is sold solely for use for research purposes in fields other than plants. This product is not transferable. If the purchaser is not willing to accept the conditions of this label license, Promega is willing to accept the return of the product and provide the purchaser with a full refund. However if the product is used, then the purchaser agrees to be bound by the conditions of this limited use statement. This product is sold by Promega Corporation under license from Benitec Australia Ltd and CSIRO as co-owners of U.S. Pat. No. 6,573,099 and foreign counterparts. For information regarding licenses to these patents for use of ddRNAi as a therapeutic agent or as a method to treat/prevent human disease, please contact Benitec at licensing@benitec.com. For the use of ddRNAi in other fields, please contact CSIRO at: www.pi.csiro.au/RNAi.

FuGENE® HD Transfection Reagent Limited Use Label License
     FuGENE® HD Transfection Reagent

Only for research use by nonprofit entities. The terms of the limited license conveyed with the purchase of this product are as follows: Customers from nonprofit entities may use the product for internal research use only, including drug discovery and protein expression conducted for the sole benefit of such nonprofit entity. Drug discovery and protein expression conducted pursuant to an agreement with any for-profit entity, or for consideration received from any for-profit entity, is expressly excluded from this license, and is strictly prohibited without a license from Fugent, LLC. Use of the product by nonprofit entities for commercial product development, manufacturing of materials for sale, fee for service research, production of viruses, clinical trials and/or resale is strictly prohibited without a license from Fugent, LLC (contact information: License@FugentLLC.com). Customers from for-profit entities are not authorized to use product without first executing a license from Fugent, LLC. You may not attempt to reverse engineer this product. For purposes of this label license, a nonprofit entity shall not include any entity that receives a majority of its funding or is otherwise controlled by a for-profit entity.

If the purchaser/recipient is not willing to accept the conditions of this limited use statement, the distributor from whom the product was purchased will accept the return of the unopened product and provide the purchaser/recipient with a full refund. However, in the event this product is opened, then the purchaser/recipient agrees to be bound by the conditions of this limited use statement.

GloSensor™ cAMP Assay Products Limited Use Label License
     GloSensor™ cAMP HEK293 Cell Line
     GloSensor™ cAMP Reagent
     pGloSensor™ cAMP Plasmids

BY USE OF THIS PRODUCT, RESEARCHER AGREES TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LIMITED USE STATEMENT. If the researcher is not willing to accept the conditions of this limited use statement, and the product is unused, Promega will accept return of the unused product and provide the researcher with a full refund.
NOT FOR USE IN LIVE ANIMALS—For use in live animals contact Promega regarding the availability of licenses. Researchers may use this product and its derivatives in their own research solely for the luminescent determination of cAMP levels in vitro or within cells (excluding uses in living animals). Researchers shall have no right to modify or otherwise create variations of the nucleotide sequence encoding the GloSensor™ cAMP Reporter of this product (i.e., the bioluminescent chimeric protein comprising luciferase and cAMP-binding domains). Researchers may transfer derivatives to others provided that recipients agree to be bound by the conditions of this limited use statement prior to such transfer. No other use or transfer of this product or derivatives is authorized without the prior express written consent of Promega. In addition, researchers must either: (1) use the GloSensor™ cAMP Reagent purchased from Promega for all determinations of luminescence activity of this product and derivatives; or (2) contact Promega to obtain a license for use of the product and derivatives in conjunction with luminescent assay reagents not purchased from Promega. PROMEGA MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING FOR MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE WITH REGARDS TO THE PRODUCT. The terms of this agreement shall be governed under the laws of the State of Wisconsin, USA.

HaloTag® Ligand Limited Use Label License
     Anti-HaloTag® pAb
     HaloCHIP™ Blocking Ligand and System
     HaloLink™ Magnetic Beads
     HaloLink™ Protein Array Systems
     HaloLink™ Resin
     HaloTag® Ligands
     HaloTag® Protein Purification System

BY USE OF THIS PRODUCT, RESEARCHER AGREES TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LIMITED USE STATEMENT. If the researcher is not willing to accept the conditions of this limited use statement, and the product is unused, Promega will accept return of the unused product and provide the researcher with a full refund.
Researchers may only use this product in their own research and may modify or link Promega HaloTag® ligands to Promega or customer-supplied moieties. No other use or transfer of this product is authorized without the express, written consent of Promega including, without limitation, commercial use. With respect to any uses outside this label license, including any diagnostic, therapeutic or prophylactic uses, please contact Promega for supply and licensing information. PROMEGA MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING FOR MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE WITH REGARDS TO THE PRODUCT. The terms of this agreement shall be governed under the laws of the State of Wisconsin, USA.

HaloTag® Vector Limited Use Label License
     HaloTag® Flexi® Vectors
     HaloTag® Cloning Starter System

BY USE OF THIS PRODUCT, RESEARCHER AGREES TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LIMITED USE STATEMENT. If the researcher is not willing to accept the conditions of this limited use statement, and the product is unused, Promega will accept return of the unused product and provide the researcher with a full refund.
Researchers may use this product for research use only, no commercial use is allowed. Researchers shall have no right to modify or otherwise create variations of the nucleotide sequence of the HaloTag® gene. Researchers may however clone heterologous DNA sequences at either or both ends of said HaloTag® gene so as to create fused gene sequences provided that the coding sequence of the resulting HaloTag® gene has no more than four (4) deoxynucleotides missing at the affected terminus when compared to the intact HaloTag® gene sequence. In addition, researchers must do one of the following in conjunction with use of the product: (1) use Promega HaloTag® ligands, which can be modified or linked to Promega or customer-supplied moieties, or (2) contact Promega to obtain a license if Promega HaloTag® ligands are not to be used. Researchers may transfer derivatives to others for research use provided that at the time of transfer a copy of this label license is given to the recipients and recipients agree to be bound by the terms of this label license. With respect to any uses outside this label license, including any diagnostic, therapeutic or prophylactic uses, please contact Promega for supply and licensing information. PROMEGA MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING FOR MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE WITH REGARDS TO THE PRODUCT. The terms of this agreement shall be governed under the laws of the State of Wisconsin, USA.

Monster Green® Fluorescent Protein Limited Use Label License
     GeneClip™ U1 Hairpin Cloning System—hMGFP
     Monster Green® Fluorescent Protein phMGFP Vector

BY USE OF THIS PRODUCT, RESEARCHER AGREES TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LIMITED USE STATEMENT. If the researcher is not willing to accept the conditions of this limited use statement, and the product is unused, Promega will accept return of the unused product and provide the researcher with a full refund.
Researchers may use this product for research use only, no commercial use is allowed. Commercial Use means any and all uses of this product and derivatives by a party for monetary or other consideration and may include but is not limited to use in: (1) product manufacture; and (2) to provide a service, information or data; and/or resale of the product or its derivatives, whether or not such product or derivatives are resold for use in research. Researchers shall have no right to modify or otherwise create variations of the nucleotide sequence of the Monster Green® gene except that researchers may create fused gene sequences provided that the coding sequence of the resulting Monster Green® gene has no more than four deoxynucleotides missing at the affected terminus compared to the intact Monster Green® gene sequence. No other use or transfer of this product or derivatives is authorized without the prior express, written consent of Promega Corporation. Researchers may transfer derivatives to others for research use provided that at the time of transfer a copy of this label license is given to the recipients and recipients agree to be bound by the terms of this label license. PROMEGA MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING FOR MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE WITH REGARDS TO THE PRODUCT. The terms of this agreement shall be governed under the laws of the State of Wisconsin, USA.

Protease-Glo™ Assay Products Limited Use Label License
     Protease-Glo™ Assay
     pGloSensor™-10F Linear Vector

BY USE OF THIS PRODUCT, RESEARCHER AGREES TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LIMITED USE STATEMENT. If the researcher is not willing to accept the conditions of this limited use statement, and the product is unused, Promega will accept return of the unused product and provide the researcher with a full refund.
NOT FOR USE IN LIVE CELLS OR LIVE ANIMALS—For use in live cells or animals contact Promega regarding the availability of licenses. Researchers may use this product and its derivatives in their own research solely for the extracellular (in vitro) determination of protease activity. Researchers shall have no right to modify or otherwise create variations of the nucleotide sequence of the circularly permuted luciferase reporter of the product and derivatives except that researchers may add oligonucleotides at the site corresponding to the free ends of the linearized product. In addition, researchers must either: (1) use reagents purchased from Promega for all (a) determinations of luminescence activity, (b) extracellular transcription of DNA sequences, and (c) extracellular translation of transcripts; or (2) contact Promega to obtain a license for the use of the product and its derivatives in conjunction with luminescent assay reagents not purchased from Promega. Researchers may transfer derivatives to others provided that recipients agree to be bound by the conditions of this limited use statement prior to such transfer. No other use or transfer of this product or derivatives is authorized without the prior express, written consent of Promega. PROMEGA MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING FOR MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE WITH REGARDS TO THE PRODUCT. The terms of this agreement shall be governed under the laws of the State of Wisconsin, USA.

Regulated Mammalian Expression System and Vector Limited Use Label License
     Regulated Mammalian Expression System and Vectors (Coumermycin/Novobiocin System)

BY USE OF THIS PRODUCT, RESEARCHER AGREES TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LIMITED USE STATEMENT. If the researcher is not willing to accept the conditions of this limited use statement, and the product is unused, Promega will accept return of the unused product and provide the researcher with a full refund.
Researchers at Nonprofit Entities may use this product in their own research and they may transfer derivatives to others at Nonprofit Entities for such research use provided recipients agree to be bound by the conditions of this limited use statement. Researchers may not transfer this product or derivatives to researchers at other entities that are not Nonprofit Entities ("For-profit Entities") without the express written consent of Promega Corporation and without those For-profit Entities having a license from Promega for the use of the product. For-profit Entities shall require an express, written license from Promega for any and all uses of the product or derivatives. A Nonprofit Entity performing research for a For-profit Entity shall be considered a For-profit Entity for the purposes of this limited use statement. No other use or transfer of this product or derivatives is authorized without the prior express, written consent of Promega. PROMEGA MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING FOR MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE WITH REGARDS TO THE PRODUCT. The terms of this agreement shall be governed under the laws of the State of Wisconsin, USA.

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Promega Copyright Statement
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Updated 3 Feb-10