• In the US, nearly 40% of the market value of an average company is absent from its balance sheet.

• In 2005, Qualcomm generated about 58% of its $5.7 billion in revenue from the sale of Qualcomm-designed wireless chips, which are manufactured by third parties under contract.

• Since 1993, IBM has been making some US$1 billion per year from licensing non-core technologies,  which otherwise would have remained unused.

• Honeywell, in 2000, received a then record award of damages of US$127 million from Minolta for  technology it hadn’t itself commercialized.

• Texas Instruments earns more from licensing its unused patent rights than from its products.