Nevertheless, Heins reiterated that he was open to the possibility, and confirmed that RIM was looking into two types of licensing — licensing the OS for other smartphones, and licensing it for "mobile computing" products.
"We are in talks with a few folks about licensing it for other use," he said.
And Samsung is well-known for licensing everything: it has Symbian and Microsoft licences, and it has also launched phones that use the Palm operating system, the dominant software in the niche PDA market.
One of his songs, "Tell Your World," became such a popular anthem for Mikuheads, Google eventually licensed it for a Chrome ad in Japan.
Erythropoietin generated $2 billion in sales last year for Amgen, plus $3 billion for Johnson & Johnson, which licenses it for use by anemic chemotherapy patients.
However it's an American variety and we're still waiting for a British company to license it for sale (boo).
In 1947 AT&T, which held the patent for the transistor, licensed it broadly to more than 50 companies.
As the nation's largest doctors' group, the medical association has maintained the master file for nearly 100 years, and has licensed it for more than 50.
ADV Films licensed the OVA for release in North American and the United Kingdom, and Madman Entertainment licensed it for Australasia.
