Licensing the right to make, use, or sell your product is usually the most profitable route for inventors. As patent holder, you retain ownership of the invention and earn royalty payments on future sales of the product. You can grant an exclusive license to one company or several companies.f the product fizzles in the marketplace, so will your royalty checks. Royalty rates run from 5% to 20%, so the product would have to sell quite a bit for the patent holder to earn big money. Relationships with a licensee can go bad, thus costing you more legal fees and headaches.
A hero is a male main character of a narrative who has admirable qualities, and who is expected to evoke the reader's sympathy. So, a heroine is the same kind of character, except that she is female in gender. Usage examples. Here are some examples of the literary term heroine being used in real sentences.
Merriam Webster's definition of the term hero can be broken down into three categorie: 1  a mythological or legendary figure, later expanded to include principal male characters in dramatic works*. 2  one admired for his great courage or noble qualities. 3  an object of extreme admiration and devotion..