Licensing

Licensing is a business arrangement where one party grants another party permission to use its intellectual property, such as patents, software, or designs, in exchange for payment or royalties. It is a common method for companies to monetize their innovations and expand their market reach without directly producing goods or services themselves.

Why it’s in the news: Licensing is in the news due to high costs and restrictive terms prompting major customers to seek alternatives, as well as significant new deals being struck between major technology companies.

Latest on Licensing

• STAT+: Roche goes beyond licensing in deal with Chinese biotech
• Nine in 10 VMware customers eye the exit as licensing bills bite
• Licensing costs driving 90 percent of VMware users to explore options: Survey
• Huawei agrees to a multi-year patent licensing deal with Qualcomm
• Synopsys, Amazon Web Services sign chip design licensing deal worth more than $1 billion
• Cboe, S&P Dow Jones may explore tokenized options contracts under extended licensing deal

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