Protection Clause

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V. Protection Clause

A Protection Clause shall be granted to long standing recurring local, regional, national and international public and trade show with a proven record of success and financial ability. A Protection Clause will be included in the License Agreement, which will not be issued earlier than twenty-four (24) months prior to the event. The protection period shall not exceed a total of sixty (60) days prior to the first day of the event and sixty (60) days after the event. If a Protection Clause is granted, it will read as follows:

Protection Clause

Lessor Agrees that it will not lease any portion of the Convention Center facility to any competing event for the period commencing sixty (60) days before Lessee's first event day and concluding sixty (60) days after Lessee's last event day (the "Protection Period"). A "competing event" is hereby defined as an event which has thirty-five percent (35%) or more of the total number of exhibitors/booths in the event showing/selling product lines the same or substantially similar to the product lines in the Lessee's event, provided, however, that a show that is open to the public shall never be deemed a competing event with a show open only to the trade, and vice versa. The determination of whether or not an event is a "competing event" shall be solely within the discretion of the General Manager and shall be based upon the product lines in the proposed event's prior shows.