With his wholesome image and shrewd business sense, Rogers made a fortune, becoming second only to Walt Disney in souvenir sales and licensing -- everything from cap pistols to lunch boxes.
In addition, Steelhead Licensing - another firm which owns patents but does not produce products of its own - has filed a case against 14 handset makers and mobile networks, including Google's Motorola unit, claiming infringement of a wireless technology which used to be owned by BT.
Those in favour of the change reckon that putting centralised functions such as accounting, insurance-licensing and claims-handling into a listed company will help to solve some of Lloyd's most pressing problems.
It can save you a bit of money--and a lot of licensing hassles-- down the road.
Some of the seemingly Burberrian goods aren't made by the London-based designer or its licensing partners--that upholstery in Williams' Corvette, for instance, or cell phone covers in the check.
Use of subsidised bars - open late, as they are not affected by licensing laws - is one of the perks of being an MP, peer or worker in the Palace of Westminster.
But other vote-catching manifesto promises - including a ban on tobacco advertising and the relaxing of licensing laws - are likely to be left out.
Those who do make it--like Tyra Banks and Heidi Klum with their model-moguldoms, and Bundchen and Kate Moss with their lucrative licensing deals--make it bigger than ever.
Last week, O'Leary pitched Harley-Davidson on licensing his spinner-wheel patent--he used Zoom to locate the company's chief counsel.
In addition to rigid jobs rules, its licensing set-up is almost comically cumbersome.
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In 1824 the Court struck down a New York law licensing out-of-state steamboats, calling it an infringement of federal powers.
This follows on the heels of Pfizer out-licensing another oncology drug, CP-870-893, an anti-CD40 monoclonal antibody, to VLST Corporation.
Some of the seemingly Burberrian goods aren't made by the London designer or its licensing partners--that upholstery in Williams' Corvette, for instance.
The team is in the final stages of licensing Gemini-Scout to a commercial robotics company, but for now, the Mine Safety and Health Administration will be the primary customer.
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Seth Siegel, head of the licensing division of The Beanstalk Group, one of the world's top trademark-licensing agencies, reckons that a hot property such as Harry Potter could have generated 200-300 product licences in America alone.
It is dissatisfaction with the ability of today's phones to carry targeted advertising--rather than a thirst for software-licensing revenues or desire to build cool gadgets--that is pushing Google to take on the mobile-phone market, industry sources say.
Just today the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) announced its drive to start beaming 3D broadcasts in Full HD quality sometime in 2010 -- licensing begins in January with first broadcasts expected mid-year.
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While out-licensing has occurred over the years, this was because the out-licensed drug would not generate meaningful sales for a large company.
In the Lords (starting at 3pm) it's Day 11 of the Health and Social Care Bill Committee Stage - looking in detail at the provisions on provider regulation, licensing and pricing - some amendments may be pushed to a vote.
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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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Via Licensing, a recent spin-out of Dolby Laboratories (DLB) is building a group patent holders to form a LTE-based patent and licensing consortium.
The European Commission has announced that it intends to create a legal framework to allow pan-European licensing, rather than copyright being dealt with on a country-by-country basis.
Some analysts remain wary of Netflix because of the video-licensing bills that have been piling up.
In the deal, which includes a cross-licensing arrangement, Intel agreed to buy Digital's Alpha microprocessor operations.
He's talking to the company about possibly cross-licensing technologies to avoid royalty payments, or getting a discount.
Cross-licensing giants naturally view NPEs that help inventors as a threat, perhaps an even greater threat than trolls.
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Loads of companies use the technology of others, sometimes freely, sometimes for a fee or in cross-licensing agreements.
Are they funding early stage innovative drug discovery companies, or are they startups formed around in-licensing clinical stage compounds?
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There is the so-called big deal, where institutional subscribers pay for access to a collection of online journal titles through site-licensing agreements.
Solutions got 10, 000 patents and a cross-licensing that remains after Mobility's acquisition.
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