| 摘要 |
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a method of conducting business that involves a supplier selling plastic material to at least two converters. The method, more particularly, involves forming a network that includes a supplier of plastic materials, and a plurality of converters each agreeing to purchase at least one plastic material from the supplier. The supplier takes a license for an item of intellectual property from an intellectual property owner, and then sublicenses the item of intellectual property to the converters. The supplier collects royalties from the converters for their use of the sublicensed intellectual property. A portion of the collected royalties are retained by the supplier, and the remainder is forwarded to the intellectual property owner. In a further embodiment of the invention, the supplier collects at least one idea from one or more of the converters in the network, and transforms the idea into an item of intellectual property, which the supplier then licenses to the converters in the network. The supplier: collects royalties from each converter relative to their use of the item of intellectual property licensed to them; retains a first portion of the royalties; and forwards a second portion of the royalties to each converter that provided the idea, which was transformed by the supplier into the item of intellectual property.
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