NEWS RELEASEULDAGE announces Third Additional Call for Patents Essential
to 4K/8K Television Broadcasting for CATV
December 20, 2019ULDAGE 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 700 essential patents which are relating
to the current digital television broadcasting standards through a patent pool system.
Through this approach, ULDAGE has made substantial contributions for the promotion
and market growth of digital television broadcasting system following the full transitionof the broadcasting system from “analog broadcasting” to “digital broadcasting” toresolve the underlying patent issues for sales and production of broadcasting 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 Dec. 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 for CATV”).

Taking this opportunity, with respect to the Call for Patents essential to the standardsof 4K/8K television broadcasting for CATV, some of the standards, that are expected
to be used mainly in IP transmission, BS pass-through transmission and Hybrid cast,are to be added to the existing standards to be applicable for the evaluation ofessentiality.

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 continues
available.

For more information regarding the subject standards and the procedures,

please visit the website of the Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center(http://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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Shuichi Endo

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