Each of those companies is a candidate for licensing, and over 200 of them have already engaged in further communications with the licensing team.
The growing worldwide pipeline of licensing candidates that are in various stages of dialogues with the Alliacense team includes the names of many well-known global manufacturing companies and product brands.
"Dialogues" and "further communicatons" seem like "negotiations"
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