Second Meeting of ATSC Essential Patent Holders to be Held February 8; MPEG LA Call for Essential Patents Continues.DENVER -- MPEG LA today announced that the next meeting of ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) An international digital television (DTV) standard adopted by the U.S., Canada, South Korea, Taiwan and Argentina. essential patent holders will be held February 8 in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . The meeting is part of a continuing effort to address the market's demonstrated need for a single license consisting of essential patents for the digital terrestrial television Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound using aerial broadcasts to a conventional antenna (or aerial) instead of a satellite dish or standard known as ATSC. ATSC, which has been adopted for the transmission and reception of digital television broadcast signals in the United States, incorporates the RF modulation format known as 8-VSB in addition to other technologies. MPEG LA continues to welcome the submission of patents for an evaluation of their essentiality to the ATSC standard in order to include in one license as much essential intellectual property as possible for the convenience of the marketplace. Any party that believes it has patents that are essential to the standard and wishes to join the ATSC Patent Portfolio License is invited to submit its patents for evaluation by MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). LA's patent experts. Further information, along with terms and procedures governing patent submissions, can be found at http://www.mpegla.com/pid/atsc/. MPEG LA, LLC MPEG LA is the world leader in one-stop technology platform patent licenses, enabling users to acquire patent rights necessary for a particular technology standard or platform from multiple patent holders in a single transaction as an alternative to negotiating separate licenses. Wherever an independently administered one-stop patent license would provide a convenient marketplace alternative to assist users with implementation of their technology choices, the licensing model pioneered and employed by MPEG LA may provide a solution. MPEG LA is not related to any standards agency and is not an affiliate of any patent holder. MPEG LA licenses portfolios of essential patents for the MPEG-2, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 1394, DVB-T See DVB. , MPEG-4 Visual (Part 2), MPEG-4 Systems and AVC/H.264 (also known as MPEG-4 Part 10) standards. In addition to ATSC, MPEG LA is also facilitating the development of alternative patent portfolio licenses for VC-1, MPEG 2 Systems, DVB-H See mobile TV and DVB. , various digital rights management (DRM) technologies including OMA DRM 1.0 and 2.0, RFID, Blu-ray Disc(TM), and DMB. MPEG LA also actively seeks to adopt its alternative patent licensing model in other industries including biotech and pharmaceutical. For more information, please refer to http://www.mpegla.com. |
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