INTRODUCTION

MPEG LA’s DVB-T Patent Portfolio License provides fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to patents that are essential for implementing DVB-T, the terrestrial digital television broadcast standard (European Telecommunications Standardization Institute ("ETSI") document ETS300744), as an alternative to negotiating separate licenses with individual patent owners. DVB-T users also may benefit from the MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License providing fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to patents that are essential to the MPEG-2 Video and Systems Standard used in conjunction with DVB-T (see http://www.mpegla.com/m2/m2-agreement.cfm).

The DVB-T Patent Portfolio License includes essential patents owned by France Télécom, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., and Victor Company of Japan (JVC). MPEG LA’s goal is to provide worldwide access to as much DVB-T essential intellectual property as possible. New Licensors and essential patents may be added following a determination of essentiality, without an increase in royalty rates during the current Term.