The purpose of any TCO (or Technology License Office, TLO, as some universities call them) is to create as much commercialization success as possible.
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And earlier this month, Hewlett Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) signed a deal with startup Riverbed Technology to license its application acceleration technology for use in its own products.
But nine years later it acquired database management software from Lockheed Martin and started selling the technology under license to small banks, to help them manage their customer accounts.
But nine years later it acquired database management software from Lockheed Martin (nyse: LMT - news - people ) and started selling the technology under license to small banks, to help them manage their customer accounts.
It's not unheard of for competing car companies in the West to strike deals whereby, say, one offers to the other a license on one technology in exchange for a license to use one of the second company's technologies.
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Mark had built his own fortune on things that Tom had left behind, things that were taken for granted such as open internet protocols and no requirements to license technology as no patents had been assigned to most of the things that made the internet work.
To Intel, this amounts to being forced to license its technology even to hostile companies.
Legal battles between research centers that develop technology and companies that license it occur with some regularity in biotech.
In the real world, innovative firms are often remarkably quick to license new technology or to become members of technology-sharing consortia.
Nagase plans to license this technology to other companies, so don't be surprised if you see it turn up in someone else's player.
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Like Qualcomm, Arraycomm is designing chip technology that manufacturers will license.
In addition, the deals call for Bwin.party to license its technology to both MGM and Boyd, which also plan to offer online poker under their brands.
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The company hopes to license the technology to others, and is working on Tricoya, an acetylated MDF that can be left outdoors untreated, unlike regular MDF.
Eventually Monsanto started to pull away from its rivals as it became the first seed developer to patent the gene traits of seeds and to license its technology broadly.
Ironically, both companies turned down the opportunity to license the technology from Brin and Page, which in turn pushed the pair to seek financing from the likes of Cheriton.
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He persuaded James Hardie Irrigation of Australia to license its technology, but it took him more than a year to persuade India's hidebound bureaucracy to let him acquire the know-how.
Over the past 18 months the firm has bought nine companies including an online self-publishing site, a financial-data firm and one with a technology that newspapers can license for an online-payment system.
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Dolby says the software is specially tuned for each device, and it's up to OEMs to license the technology, so don't hold your breath for an app you can download on your own.
SES(SYMX) has a 10 year exclusive license to the technology, which can be extended further.
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Each company has accused the other of using their patented technology, without paying to license it.
It is true that Apple will be able to license a 5G technology that comes to fruition in the commercial space.
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In 2000 Hoji Alimi, an Iranian-born biologist, bought the license for the technology for his company, Oculus, originally started to develop a cancer treatment.
Later this year, in a repeat of the RF Micro Devices model, TRW plans to license its wireless technology, called Spitfire, to a startup.
Given this growing demand, Akamai is looking to license its CDN technology to telecom companies to stay in the game and not be marginalized.
With millions being spent on litigation, it is little wonder that plastics makers have been reluctant to license one metallocene technology rather than another.
Eventually, the only course for Iomega will be to license its disk technology to third-party manufacturers, as it is already starting to do with its drives.
Before filing these complaints, we approached both of these companies numerous times in an attempt to negotiate a license of our technology with them and did not receive a substantive response.
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On April 30 of that year, Berners-Lee's then employer would make the technology behind the WWW available license free, bundling a basic browser and some key chunks of code into the deal.
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License a summarization technology.
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