Common use of Minimum License Fee Clause in Contracts

Minimum License Fee. With respect to any calendar year after 2017 in which the license fees paid to S&P hereunder are less than $*****, CME will remit to S&P the difference between such license fees and $***** within ninety (90) days of the end of the calendar year; provided, however, that CME will have no such obligation if S&P has suffered a material loss or erosion of intellectual property protection for the S&P Stock Indices or CME has suffered a material loss of its exclusive rights under this Agreement.