[M4IF Discuss] PR: MPEG-4 Visual Essential Patent Holders Meet to Discuss Licensing Terms

[Craig Birkmaier]

MPEG-4 Visual Essential Patent Holders Meet to Discuss Licensing Terms
April 25, 2024 12:00am
Source: Business Wire
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE) -- MPEG LA and patent holders to the proposed 
MPEG-4 Visual Patent Portfolio License met on April 18 and 19 in New 
York City. They continue to discuss licensing terms and consider the 
constructive views, interests and concerns of prospective licensees.
The group continues to discuss alternate royalty approaches, 
including forms of use-based royalties that place royalties on 
products and services for which remuneration is received and whose 
value supports the royalties charged. Among other approaches 
discussed, the group considered industry proposals that the 
widespread use of MPEG-4 Visual technology may be enhanced across 
various business models by the adoption of (a) reasonable annual 
limitations on certain royalties (in addition to those for decoders 
and encoders) in order to provide more cost predictability and (b) 
threshold levels below which certain use-based royalties would not be 
charged.
The process is advancing, and MPEG LA hopes to have a further 
announcement in the near future. As in the past, we caution that no 
final decisions have been reached. The group intends to meet again in 
late June but will be working hard to resolve these issues in the 
interim.
MPEG LA, LLC
MPEG LA successfully pioneered one-stop technology standards 
licensing, starting with a portfolio of essential patents for the 
international digital video compression standard known as MPEG-2, 
which it began licensing in 1997. One-stop technology standards 
licensing enables widespread technological implementation, 
interoperability and use of fundamental broad-based technologies 
covered by many patents owned by many patent holders. MPEG LA 
provides users with fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to 
these essential patents on a worldwide basis under a single license. 
For more information, please refer to http://www.mpegla.com, 
http://www.1394la.com and http://www.dvbla.com.
On January 31, 2002, MPEG LA announced that it will offer fair, 
reasonable, nondiscriminatory, worldwide access to patents that are 
essential to the MPEG-4 Visual (Simple and Core) digital compression 
standard under a single license to be known as the MPEG-4 (Visual) 
Patent Portfolio License. The License currently includes patents 
owned by 20 companies: Canon Inc.; France Telecom; Fujitsu Limited; 
GE Technology Development, Inc.; General Instrument Corp.; Hitachi, 
Ltd.; Hyundai Curitel, Inc.; KDDI Corporation; Matsushita Electric 
Industrial Co., Ltd.; Microsoft Corporation; Mitsubishi Electric 
Corporation; Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.; Philips Electronics; 
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.; Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.; Sharp 
Kabushiki Kaisha; Sony Corporation; Telenor AS; Toshiba Corporation; 
and Victor Company of Japan, Limited.
<<Business Wire, 04-24-02, 12:19 Eastern>>
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