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SISVEL and Audio MPEG Grant Creative an MPEG Audio Patent License


    S.I.SV.EL. S.p.A., and its U.S. subsidiary Audio MPEG,
    Inc. and Creative Technology announce that SISVEL and Audio MPEG have
    granted to Creative a standard license under the MP3 and MPEG2 audio
    compression patents owned by France Telecom, TDF S.A., U.S. Philips
    Corporation, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Institut fur
    Rundfunktechnik GmbH, and Bayerische Rundfunkwerbung GmbH. Since
    Creative Technology and its subsidiaries have taken a patent license
    from SISVEL and Audio MPEG the parties have agreed to dismiss the
    litigation and administrative proceedings pending between them. By
    taking a license Creative Technology has joined over 600 other
    companies that have taken patent licenses from Audio MPEG and SISVEL
    on these patents for MP3 players or other products using MPEG audio
    compression.