NEWS RELEASEULDAGE Announces Plan for Joint Patent License for Japanese Digital BroadcastingStandards (ARIB Standards)(Tokyo Japan – August 8, 2006) ULDAGE Inc., a patent license company, today issued
a call for patents that are essential to the Japanese Digital Broadcasting Standards
developed by Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB Standards).

The

purpose of the call is to evaluate and determine patents that are essential to thestandards in order to include them in a joint patent license, which will be provided
under fair and reasonable terms and will serve to promote the digital broadcastingmarket in Japan.
A summary of patent submissions and evaluations is as follows:
1. Patents to be submitted:
Patents that are:(1) technically essential to implementation of the following ARIB Standards, and(2) issued in Japan
Number

ARIB Standards Title

STD-B10Service Information for Digital Broadcasting System

STD-B20

Transmission System for Digital Satellite Broadcasting

STD-B21

Receiver for Digital Broadcasting

STD-B24

Data Coding and Transmission Specification for Digital Broadcasting

STD-B25

Conditional Access System Specifications for Digital Broadcasting

STD-B29

Transmission System For Digital Terrestrial Sound Broadcasting

STD-B30

Receiver For Digital Terrestrial Sound Broadcasting

STD-B31Transmission System for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting

STD-B32

Video Coding, Audio Coding and Multiplexing Specifications forDigital Broadcasting

TR-B13Operational Guidelines for Digital Terrestrial Sound Broadcasting

TR-B14

OperationalGuidelines

for

DigitalTerrestrial

Television

Broadcasting
TR-B15

Operational Guidelines for Digital Satellite Broadcasting

Patents related to MPEG-2 Video Standards, MPEG-4 Video Standards,
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Standards, IEEE1394 Standards, and Broadcasting System
Based on Home Servers are excluded.

2. Patent Evaluation:
The Evaluator, Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (JIPAC), is anindependent patent expert, and will evaluate patents for essentiality to ARIB
Standards.
【Contact】Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center (JIPAC) Secretariat
Benrishikaikan Bldg.
3-4-2 Kasumigaseki Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, 100-0013
PHONE／FAX：+81-3-3500-3793／+81-3-3500-3839
E-Mail：info@ip-adr.gr.jp
3. Schedule for Patent Submissions and Evaluations (Plan)
Aug. 8, 2006

Call for Patent Submissions

Sep. 8, 2006

Closing of Initial Submission (Essential Patent Holders as of this date
will be invited to the first Patent Holders’ Meeting.

PatentSubmissions and Evaluations shall be continued thereafter.)Nov. mid, 2006

The First Patent Holders’ Meeting

ULDAGE will send an invitation for the Patent Holders’ Meeting to those who have apatent evaluated as essential to ARIB Standard.
4. Evaluation Fee:
Any party that wishes to submit patents for evaluation is requested to pay an
Evaluation Fee to the Evaluator.

Evaluation fee is determined in accordance with therule of JIPAC, depending upon the number of claims that it believes are essential toARIB Standards.
For a patent which has one or two claims per patent: 800,000JPY
For a patent which has three or four claims per patent: 1,000,000JPY
For a patent which has five claims or more per patent: 1,000,000JPY plus 100,000JPY
per additional one (1) claim (accruing from the fifth claim)

For more information, please see http://www.uldage.com.
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