Patent ID: 7379883

Claim:
A method of licensing a primary technology and a secondary technology to facilitate adoption of said primary technology in a market where one or more third party technologies compete with said primary technology, wherein said secondary technology is operable with said primary technology and said third party technologies, the method comprising: (a) licensing, by a licensor, said secondary technology to a product manufacturer according to a license agreement; (b) receiving, by said licensor, first license revenue from said product manufacturer according to said license agreement, wherein step (b) comprises receiving a first license fee from said product manufacturer for each product comprising said secondary technology sold by said product manufacturer; (c) receiving, by said licensor, second license revenue from said product manufacturer according to said license agreement, wherein step (c) comprises: (i) receiving a second license fee from said product manufacturer for each product sold by said product manufacturer that comprises said secondary technology and said primary technology; (ii) receiving a third license fee from said product manufacturer for each product sold by said product manufacturer that comprises said secondary technology and one of said third party technologies; and (iii) receiving a fourth license fee from said product manufacturer for each product sold by said product manufacturer that comprises said secondary technology, and that does not include but that enables access with at least one of (1) said primary technology, and (2) one or more of said third party technologies; wherein said primary technology comprises a wireless transmitter technology and/or a wireless receiver technology; wherein said secondary technology comprises a baseband technology; wherein terms of said license agreement relating to said secondary technology, including said first license fee, are structured to encourage said product manufacturer to manufacture products using said secondary technology; and wherein said second license fee is less than said third and fourth license fees, to thereby encourage said product manufacturer to manufacture products using said primary technology.