RE: Few questions?11 Sep 2020 08:50
Spoon -"why wouldn't Cap-XX prefer to be making and selling the products on a better production line, making more products and dealing with customers direct instead of just being the patent holder?"
IMHO - If you're a designer, then the clean & simple life is to simply receive royalties from manufacturers.
There might be more money in manufacturing, but there are more costs in sourcing the materials, warehouse space, assembly staff, shipping dept, HR, accounts, credit risks, bigger space for everything, employee relations, customer relations, sales dept, etc, etc...
Less money but a simpler life MIGHT sound a lot more appealing.