Call for Patents that are Essential for the Digital Broadcasting Standards ( the ARIB Standards ) for Patent License Purposes

1. On August 8, 2006, ULDAGE Inc., a company engaged in patent license business, issued a news release announcing a call for patents that are essential for the ARIB Standards mentioned above. The details are recited below.

Any questions about the news release are to be addressed to the following contact:

Contact	ULDAGE Inc.
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
E-mail
Website	http://www.uldage.com/

2. The Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center will conduct essential patent evaluation, through it's evaluators, for the patents submitted to determine whether they are essential for the ARIB 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 Broadcasting Standards (the ARIB Standards)" on this website.

News Release
Call for Patents that are Essential for the Digital Broadcasting Standards (the ARIB Standards) forPatent License Purposes:

August 8, 2006

ULDAGE Inc.

Today, August 8, 2006, ULDAGE Inc., a company engaged in patent license business, issued a call for patents that are essential for the Digital Broadcasting Standards developed by the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (hereinafter referred to as the "ARIB Standards"). The purpose of the 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 ARIB Standards in order to grant an overall license under the fair and reasonable conditions, thereby promoting expansion of the digital 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 following ARIB Standards, and
(2) issued in Japan.

NUMBER	TITLE OF THE ARIB STANDARDS
ARIB STD-B10	Service Information for Digital Broadcasting System
ARIB STD-B20	Transmission System for Digital Satellite Broadcasting
ARIB STD-B21	Receiver for Digital Broadcasting
ARIB STD-B24	Data Coding and Transmission Specifications for Digital Broadcasting
ARIB STD-B25	Conditional Access System Specification for Digital Broadcasting
ARIB STD-B29	Transmission System for Digital Terrestrial Sound Broadcasting
ARIB STD-B30	Receiver for Digital Terrestrial Sound 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-B13 *	Operational Guidelines for Digital Terrestrial Sound Broadcasting
ARIB TR-B14	Operational Guidelines for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting
ARIB TR-B15	Operational Guidelines for BS/Broadband CS Digital Broadcasting

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.

*　ARIB TR-B13 was abolished on July 31, 2014.

2. Institution undertaking Essential Patent Evaluation:
Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center

Contact: Secretariat of Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center
Japan Patent Attorneys Association Building (Benrishi Kaikan), 3-4-2, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0013
Telephone: +81-3-3500-3793
Facsimile: +81-3-3500-3839
E-mail:

3. Schedule for the Patent Submission and the Patent Evaluation：

August 8, 2006: Call for Patent Submission
September 8, 2006: 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.)
November 2006: The first meeting of the Essential Patent Holders

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 in where the numder 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).

For further information, please visit the website of ULDAGE Inc. For the procedures to apply for the Essential Patent Evaluation, please visit the website of 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 preparation of written contracts and negotiations for the conclusion of patent license contracts, 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/