NEWS RELEASEULDAGE announces Fourth Additional Call for Patents
Essential to 4K/8K Television Broadcasting for CATV
October 1, 2023
ULDAGE Inc.

ULDAGE Inc. (“ULDAGE”), a company for patent pool license management andadministration, announced today that it is going to make some of the standards
available for the Call for Patents essential to the standards of 4K/8K television
broadcasting applicable to CATV in addition to the existing ones.

Currently, ULDAGE licenses a package of over 1000 essential patents which are
relating to the current digital television broadcasting standards through a patent poolsystem. Through this approach, ULDAGE has made substantial contributions for thepromotion and market growth of digital television broadcasting system following the fulltransition of the broadcasting system from “analog broadcasting” to “digitalbroadcasting” to resolve the underlying patent issues for sales and production ofbroadcasting receivers and broadcasting services.

With its experience in relation to this kind of current digital television broadcasting, onApril 3, 2017 ULDAGE announced a Call for Patents essential to the standards of
4K/8K television broadcasting for CATV (with a news release dated the same dateentitled “ULDAGE announces a New Call for Patents essential to 4K/8K Broadcastingfor IPTV and CATV”). An additional Call for Patents was made on June 10, 2017 (witha news release dated the same date entitled “ULDAGE announces the Addition of
Subject Standards Regarding the Call for Patents essential to 4K/8K Television
Broadcasting for CATV”). A 2nd additional Call for Patents was made on December 21,
2018 (with a news release dated the same date entitled “ULDAGE announces thesecond additional Call for Patents Essential to 4K/8K Television Broadcasting forCATV”).
A 3rd additional Call for Patents was made on Dec. 20, 2019 (with a news release
dated the same date entitled “ULDAGE announces Third Additional Call for Patents
Essential to 4K/8K Television Broadcasting for CATV”).

Taking this opportunity, with respect to the Call for Patents essential to the standardsof 4K/8K television broadcasting for CATV, a standard, that are expected to be usedmainly in IP pass-through broadcasting, is to be added to the existing standards to be
applicable for the evaluation of essentiality.

For any party that possesses Japanese patents that it believes are essential to therealization of the function and utility prescribed in the subject standards including theseadditional standards and wishes to apply for evaluation of essentiality, please apply forthe evaluation to the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center.

Also, the call forpatents essential to the subject standards prior to these additional standards continuesavailable.

For more information regarding the subject standards and the procedures,

please visit the website of the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center(https://www.ip-adr.gr.jp/eng/) or the website of ULDAGE (http://www.uldage.com/en/).

About ULDAGEULDAGE was established in July 2006, aiming for the resolution of entanglement ofpatents through cooperation among parties concerned and for the creation of faircompetition in this digital age. ULDAGE grants non-exclusive licenses to essential
patents of multiple parties in a single package, and its business offers convenience toboth patent holders and business users.
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