Where a contract defines its subject matter by reference to a schedule listing specific items, the scope of the contract is confined to those items and does not extend to future or replacement items, even where the parties are separately obliged under another agreement to adopt such replacement items. Obligations under a multilateral industry agreement do not operate to vary or expand the scope of a bilateral commercial contract between two of its members. The question of whether a perpetual exclusive licence survives termination of the deed granting it was left open.
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