Once you grant them a license to your IP it might as well be free. This in the sense that they can transfer the license to someone else, manufacture your devic

Once you grant them a license to your IP it might as well be free. This in the sense that they can transfer the license to someone else, manufacture your device, use it and you won't see a dime for it. From your perspective, the IP owner, they got your product for free. The investment in time, money, R&D and risk you put into the product produces no returns for you.