Dwight Robinson, marketing director for Bob Siemon Designs, the film's only licensee for jewelry, said that the company had to add 35 employees to its staff of 125.
So far, however, the only licensee actually selling a product is Handspring Inc., which was formed by Palm's original founders, Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky, who left 3Com 18 months ago when the company was unwilling to do a spinoff.
EA also signed an agreement with ESPN to become the only licensee of the ESPN's brand in sports games on all platforms.
Our ratings held up extremely strong in a difficult environment, so we think it continues to be a great buy, but we want to see how it affects our business partners, which include not only advertisers and sponsors, but licensees and everybody else.
The legislative indicator of liability was not significantly stronger (in Linn a statutory and regulatory prohibition was involved, applicable, however, only to licensees; here only a regulatory prohibition); in both cases social habits may be affected, substantial economic consequences may result, and in both the court acts without the advantage of a legislative inquiry.
But other plum clients remain only marginal licensees: the IRS, for example, has only 1,500 seats in its audit wing.
It finished 2000 with only 62 licensees and royalty income of $33 milliondropping, among other items, shoes, baseball caps, socks and handkerchiefs.
Approved Terminations: Licensee may terminate his/her License Agreement during its term only if Licensee experiences an eligible status change.
But Geron is only a licensee, though an important one, of the patent held by WARF, which has said it wants to make the cells widely available.
