21.   The Sallees, who live in Wyandotte, Mich., hope to license their invention to a manufacturer.

22.   They say large companies could use expanded re-examination to coerce small inventors into licensing their inventions.

23.   Typically, Kamen sticks to research and development with his company DEKA Research and Development, licenses his inventions for others to market.

24.   Universities were directed to license patented inventions to companies that would commercialize them.

25.   Valdman and Schum hope to license their invention to pizza restaurants.

26.   White said his company had a track record of liberally licensing its inventions so as to improve the chances of their becoming the industry standard.

27.   Greatbatch licensed his invention to Medtronics Inc., the Minneapolis-based company founded by Bakken.

28.   Inventors should be more open to licensing their inventions rather than putting up their own companies to exploit the same.