This would benefit companies that own many cable systems around the country, which may be able to negotiate licenses on better terms than smaller competitors.

The company is currently negotiating licenses for application developers to embed Web browsers in their programs.

Now MP3.com has negotiated licenses with each of the five major record companies and the group that represents most music publishers.

Before his death he first sued, then negotiated and received licenses from a variety of corporations.

The online retail giant failed to negotiate new licenses with the record labels for music streaming and storage before announcing the service.

It also allows time to negotiate cross licenses, he said.

Unocal is offering to negotiate licenses for future use of its patent, presumably at less than 5.75 cents a gallon.

When client patents were infringed, we have tried to negotiate licenses - usually successfully and without litigation.

A handful of companies have chosen to negotiate licenses with Molins rather than see the litigation through to its bitter end.

The commercial service did not emerge as Napster struggled, unsuccessfully so far, to negotiate licenses with the very companies that were suing it.