Its business plan calls for licensing its technology to radio manufacturers and to collect royalties from stations that convert their existing facilities to broadcast a digital signal.
Therefore, what these firms then sometimes do is sit together and jointly agree to pool all their relevant patents, basically creating one organisation that becomes the central point for licensing the whole technology.
Qualcomm, a developer of mobile-phone chips and technology based in San Diego, earns roughly 40% of its revenue from licensing and royalty fees for technology developed primarily in America, where three-quarters of its employees work.
But sources say Sun and the alliance, staffed by both Sun and Netscape employees, are in the process of working out a licensing deal for the Netscape technology.
Arguably, stronger patents and other intellectual-property rights that made it easier for innovators to keep their proprietary technology to themselves or charge more for licensing it would increase total innovation.
Their business model relies on licensing the Passfaces technology for corporate use.
SwiftKey is a London-based technology company that makes money from selling its app on Google Play for Android, and from licensing its language-prediction technology to device manufacturers like Samsung.
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We have a new technology partnership with Dell for our money-saving xFD technology and new long-term licensing agreements with SK Hynix plus a multiyear deal with Samsung to use our advanced face detection software in every Galaxy S4 phone sold worldwide.
Many companies have accessed the China market over the years through technology licensing agreements whereby the company transfers the product specifications and manufacturing technology for certain of its products to a Chinese manufacturer.
The upcoming vote pits the newly reconstituted board and turnaround management team at Tessera, a technology development and licensing firm that invented chip-scale packaging (CSP) technology for improved semiconductor performance in the 1990s and is now blazing a trail in advanced semiconductor interconnect technology, against a board takeover attempt by the activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP.
Says Ives, "We're trying to be an arms dealer" for the bigger search companies, licensing out its technology.
The FTC decision is technically not binding for other businesses, but it is likely to be used to set some new rules of the road for the licensing of standard essential patents across the technology sector as well as in other industries.
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U.S. export laws already require licensing for the sale or export of certain electronic surveillance technology overseas.
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Branded ads and licensing its search technology to other sites, including Hotbot and Infospace, accounted for another 37% of revenue.
Loads of companies use the technology of others, sometimes freely, sometimes for a fee or in cross-licensing agreements.
In a statement, the Solyndra said it would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy while exploring a sale of the business or licensing its thin-film photovoltaic technology.
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He tried to make a go of it by extracting fat patent licensing fees from technology companies, some of which paid up, but it seems licensing was not a sufficient strategy for Intellectual Ventures.
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