Brand licensing

Brand licensing

Brand licensing is the process of creating and managing contracts between the owner of a brand and a company or individual who wants to use the brand in association with a product, for an agreed period of time, within an agreed territory. Licensing is used by brand owners to extend a trademark or character onto products of a completely different nature. [citebook|title=Integrated Intellectual Asset Management|author= Steve Manton|year=2005|publisher=Gower Publishing, Ltd.|id=ISBN 0566087219]

Brand licensing a is well-established business, both in the area of patents and trademarks. Trademark licensing has a rich history in American business, largely beginning with the rise of mass entertainment such as the movies, comics and later television. Mickey Mouse's popularity in the 1930s and 1940s resulted in an explosion of toys, books, and consumer products with the lovable rodent's likeness on them, none of which were manufactured by the Walt Disney Company.

This process accelerated as movies and later television became a staple of American business. The rise of brand licensing did not begin until much later, when corporations found that consumers would actually pay money for products with the logos of their favorite brands on them. McDonalds play food, Burger King t-shirts and even ghastly Good Humor Halloween costumes became commonplace. Brand extensions later made the brand licensing marketplace much more lucrative, as companies realized they could make real dollars renting out their equity to manufacturers. Instead of spending untold millions to create a new brand, companies were willing to pay a royalty on net sales of their products to "rent" the product of an established brand name. Breyers yogurt, TGI Friday's frozen appetizers, Dodge power tools, and Lucite nail polish are only a fraction of the products carrying well-known brand names which are made under license by companies unrelated to the companies who own the brand.

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