1.   Amgen Inc. licensed the rights to the obesity protein and plans to conduct clinical trials to determine whether injecting it into humans will help them lose weight.

2.   Amgen licensed the rights to the obesity protein from Dr. Jeffrey Friedman of Rockefeller University, the researcher who found the gene responsible for the defect.

3.   And it has licensed the right to make Nintendo and arcade games based on X-Men, the extremely popular comic book series.

4.   Bandai has specialized in licensing the rights to make toys, candy and other goods based on television cartoon characters.

5.   Biogen Inc. said it licensed the rights to its experimental heart drug Hirulog to a privately held company called The Medicines Co.

6.   Both Quigley and Weider have licensed patent rights to their respective lozenges from Texas inventor George Eby.

7.   A few years later it licensed the rights to the transistor from Bell Laboratories, after overcoming resistance from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.

8.   But those deals still leave individual teams free to license rights to the bulk of their games as they choose.

9.   By fall, Pokemon sales had begun to weaken, and Hasbro, which licensed the rights to make various Pokemon toys, was struggling.

10.   Celltech licensed rights to sell the Bayer drug in Britain, Ireland and France.