SISVEL announced today that it is acting as the facilitator for
the creation of a DVB-H joint patent licensing program and is issuing
a call for patents and other enforceable patent rights that are
essential to the DVB-H standard.
SISVEL is organizing this joint licensing program to make DVB-H
technology accessible to all users at fair, reasonable, and
non-discriminatory terms and conditions. SISVEL invites all parties
that believe to have a patent that is essential to the DVB-H standard
and would like to join a patent portfolio license to submit their
patent(s) for an evaluation of essentiality by the independent patent
experts entrusted by Sisvel. Interested parties are invited to request
information on the terms and procedures for patent submission by
sending an email to SISVEL at the following address: dvb-h@sisvel.com.
Sisvel's efforts to organize a DVB-H joint licensing program are
in accordance with the request to the industry, addressed by the EU
telecoms and media Commissioner, Ms. Reding, to provide certainty
regarding technology licensing terms and conditions as a requirement
for the Commission's support to European standardized solutions, such
as DVB-H.
Although the parties holding the relevant IP rights were
previously unable to reach an agreement on the development of a DVB-H
joint licensing program, even though assisted by a previous
facilitator, SISVEL is confident that with its experience and with the
assistance of the patent holders, it will be possible to make rapid
progress toward building an overall framework for such a joint
licensing program.
The Chief Executive Officer of SISVEL, Gianni Pancot, said:
"Sisvel is proud to act as the facilitator in the creation of a DVB-H
joint patent licensing program." He added: "We believe in the
potential of this innovative European standardised solution and will
work to provide the industry with the certainty and predictability on
licensing terms and conditions which they need to invest with
confidence in this new technology."
Several meetings will be held in the coming weeks to reach
consensus on licensing terms with the objective of reaching an
agreement on a program as soon as possible. Upon successful
evaluation, all parties holding essential patents will be in a
position to join the program.
About DVB-H
DVB-H is the leading global technology standard for the
transmission of digital TV to handheld receivers, such as mobile
telephones and PDAs. It was published as a formal standard (EN 302
304) by ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) in
November 2004. For more information, see http://www.etsi.org and
http://www.dvb.org.
About SISVEL, S.p.A.
SISVEL is a patent management company that has become a leader in
promoting innovation and in licensing patents for the past 25 years
and is a recognized world leader in increasing the value of patents.
SISVEL enables users to acquire patent rights necessary for a
particular technology standard from multiple patent holders in a
single transaction, providing one-stop technology platform patent
licenses. For more information, please refer to www.sisvel.com.
