I believe it goes like this, for a company to sell a product made from BMG's in the North America or Europe they need to apply through lqmt so lqmt gets a percentage of those sales...the only place where we can't hold any ground is Asia, but now we have EONTEC and li for that, li said liquidmetal/BMG's were too big for competition, which is why he has specifically made companies an offer they can't refuse(most of the companies are in his personal control), this along with America's new president will make liquidmetal great;) point being everything gets filtered through lqmt because of their patents which hold all the weight, in the BMG world, heck most of the articles about BMG refer to BMG's as liquidmetal...when this BMG production takes off, we will be in great shape:D