Napster agreed to pay music creators and copyright owners a $26 million settlement for past, unauthorized uses of music, as well as an advance against future licensing royalties of $10 million.

Kombinates had followed Event Horizon to Peterborough, lured by Julia's offer of a lower giga-conductor licensing royalty to anyone who set up their production facilities in England.

Broadcom asserts that Qualcomm is using the power management technology without paying licensing royalties.

A few weeks later, the two men signed an agreement evenly dividing Maxim's future licensing royalties between them.

The Perry Ellis company provided the seed money for the new concern, in exchange for a small percentage of the licensing royalties, said Robert Duffy, Mr. Jacobs's longtime business associate.

Patent lawsuits among technology companies typically end up being settled or avoided entirely through cross-licensing deals, with the weaker party often agreeing to pay a licensing royalty on every product sold containing the technology in question.

But Mr. Idol has not pushed for the easiest way to insure fatter profits for the company, which is eliminating Ms. Karan's licensing royalty.

Adobe gets a licensing royalty on each Hewlett-Packard machine sold.

For a substantial multi-million dollar upfront payment and ongoing licensing royalties, he licensed most of the company's intellectual property to the Dialysis Industry's dominant services provider Fresenius Medical Care.

Schauder said upcoming licensing royalties will be divided equally among the players.