Call for Patents that are Essential for the Digital Cable Broadcasting Standards for Patent License Purposes
1. On December 21, 2007, ULDAGE Inc., a company engaged in patent license business, issued a call for patents that are essential for the Standards mentioned above. The details are recited below.
Any questions about the contents of the news release are to be addressed to the following contact:
| Contact | ULDAGE Inc. |
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| Address | Imperial Tower 8th floor, 1-1-1, Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0013, Japan |
| Telephone | +81-3-3500-1572 |
| Facsimile | +81-3-3500-1573 |
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| Website | http://www.uldage.com/ |
2. The Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center will conduct evaluation, through it's evaluators, for the patents submitted to determine as to whether they are essential for the Digital Cable Broadcasting Standards in accordance with the "Procedural Rules for Essential Patent Evaluation " as established by the Center and will issue a Written Essential Patent Evaluation.
To obtain a Written Essential Patent Evaluation , the applicant must submit to the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center an application for Essential Patent Evaluation and other documents required in accordance with the
"Procedural Rules for Essential Patent Evaluation" mentioned above and pay the prescribed fees.
3. For the procedures to apply for the Essential Patent Evaluation, refer to the " Procedures for Application for Essential Patent Evaluation for the Digital Cable Broadcasting Standards" on this website.
- News Release
Call for Patents that are Essential for the Digital Cable
Broadcasting Standards for Patent License Purposes -
December 21, 2007
ULDAGE Inc.Today, December 21, 2007, ULDAGE Inc., a company engaged in patent license business, issued a call for patents that are essential for the Digital Cable Broadcasting Standards in Japan listed below:
・The Standards developed by the Japan Cable Television Engineering Association (hereinafter referred to as the JCTEA Standards);
・The Operational Guidelines developed by the JCTA Japan Cable Laboratories (hereinafter referred to as the JCL Operational Guidelines); and
・The Standards developed by the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (hereinafter referred to as the ARIB Standards).
The purpose of ths call is to create a joint patent pool consisting of the patents that are evaluated by an independent and neutral professional institution as being essential for the above-mentioned Standards to grant licenses under fair and reasonable conditions, thereby promoting expansion of the digital cable broadcasting market in Japan.The details of the patent submission and the patent evaluation procedures are as follows:
1. Patents to be submitted:
Patents that are:(1) technically essential for the implementation of the JCTEA Standards, the JCL Operational Guidelines and the ARIB Standards as identified below, and
(2) issued in Japan.NUMBER TITLE OF THE STANDARDS JCTEA STD-001 Conditional Access System for Digital Cable TV Broadcasting JCTEA STD-002 Multiplexing Device for Digital Cable TV Broadcasting JCTEA STD-003 Standards for Service Information Structure and the Operation of Identifiers for Digital Cable TV Broadcasting JCTEA STD-007 Digital Cable TV Sets for Digital Cable TV Broadcasting JCTEA STD-011 Pass-through Transmission System for Digital Cable TV Broadcasting and Digital Terrestrial TV Broadcasting JCTEA STD-012 Headphone Amplifier for Joint Reception of Digital Cable TV Broadcasting and Digital Terrestrial TV Broadcasting JCL SPEC-001 Operational Guidelines for Trans-modulation for BS Digital Broadcasting JCL SPEC-001-01 Operational Guidelines for Trans-modulation for BS Digital Broadcasting
Detailed Specifications for Abuse Prevention FunctionJCL SPEC-001-02 Operational Guidelines for Trans-modulation for BS Digital Broadcasting
Operational Guidelines for Download FunctionJCL SPEC-002 Operational Guidelines for Trans-modulation for CS Digital Broadcasting at 110 Degrees of East Longitude JCL SPEC-003 Operational Guidelines for Re-multiplexing for Digital Broadcasting (Independent Broadcasting) JCL SPEC-004 Operational Guidelines for Re-multiplexing for Digital Broadcasting (i-HITS) JCL SPEC-005 Operational Guidelines for JC-HITS Trans-modulation JCL SPEC-006 Operational Guidelines for Pass-through Transmission for Digital Terrestrial TV Broadcasting and Independent Broadcasting JCL SPEC-007 Operational Guidelines for Trans-modulation for Digital Terrestrial TV Broadcasting and Independent Broadcasting ARIB STD-B20 Transmission System for Digital Satellite Broadcasting ARIB STD-B24 Data Coding and Transmission Specifications for Digital Broadcasting ARIB STD-B25 Conditional Access System Specification for Digital Broadcasting ARIB STD-B31 Transmission System for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting ARIB STD-B32 Video Coding, Audio Coding and Multiplexing Specifications for Digital Broadcasting ARIB TR-B14 Operational Guidelines for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting ARIB TR-B15 Operational Guidelines for BS/Broadband CS Digital Broadcasting Other ARIB Standards Any portions of the ARIB Standards which are referred to in.the JCTEA and JCL Standards mentioned above as being complied with. Patents related to MPEG-2 Standards, MPEG-4 Standards, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Standards, IEEE1394 Standards and Server-type Broadcasting are to be excluded.
(Note) Code symbol "JCL" has been changed to "JLabs" as from October, 2009.
(3) For patents comprising the existing ARIB essential patent portfolios for direct broadcasting using radio waves and which have already received the evaluation as being essential exclusively for the ARIB Standards mentioned above, those are subject to confirmatory evaluation and not for an ordinary evaluation. ( See item " Confirmatory Evaluation " below.)
2. Institution undertaking the Essential Patent Evaluation:
Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration CenterContact: The Secretariat, the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center
c/o The Japan Patent Attorneys Association Building (Benrishi Kaikan), 3-4-2, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0013, JAPAN
Telephone: +81-3-3500-3793
Facsimile: +81-3-3500-3839
E-mail:
3. Schedule for the Patent Submission and the Patent Evaluation:
December 21, 2007: Call for Patent Submission
February 29, 2008: Closing of the Initial Submission
( The Call for the Initial Submission will be closed on the date mentioned above to decide the participants in the first meeting of the Essential Patent Holders. However, the Patent Submission and the Patent Evaluation will be continued thereafter.)
End of May 2008: The first meeting of the Essential Patent HoldersUpon completion of the evaluation for the patents submitted during the Initial Submission Period, a notice of the first meeting of the Essential Patent Holders will be sent to those who have received the evaluation as an essential patent for their patent or patents.
4. Evaluation Fees:
The fees for evaluation are :
(1) 800,000 yen for a case in which the number of claims submitted for evaluation is 1 or 2; and
(2) 1,000,000 yen for a case in which the number of claims submitted for evaluation is 3 or 4.
(3) In a case where the number of claims submitted for evaluation exceeds 4, an additional amount of 100,000 yen is to be added for each additional claim (according to the Rules of the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center).The fee for the Confirmatory Evaluation is 50,000 yen per patent.
For further information, please visit the website of ULDAGE Inc.
For the procedures for applying for the Essential Patent Evaluation, please visit the website of the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center.
ULDAGE Inc. Website: http://www.uldage.com/
Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center Website: http://www.ip-adr.gr.jp/About ULDAGE Inc.
ULDAGE Inc. was established for the purpose of promoting the management of patent pool licenses.
Company name: ULDAGE Inc.
Address: Imperial Tower 8th floor, 1-1-1, Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN
Established: July 13, 2006
President & CEO: Yoshihide Nakamura
Lines of Business:
(1) Management of businesses relating to collection of royalties from the licensees for their making use of the essential patents, distribution of the collected royalties among the essential patent holders, and other managements related thereto.
(2) Execution and management of patent license contracts, such as the preparation of written contracts, negotiations for the conclusion of patent license contract, etc.
(3) Patent search for the patents thought to be essential for the technologies relating to the licenses granted.Contact Information:
ULDAGE Inc.
Telephone: +81-3-3500-1572
Facsimile: +81-3-3500-1573
E-mail:
Website: http://www.uldage.com/
