[M4IF Technotes] RE: [M4IF News] Press Release Licensing Additional Visual Profiles

Thu Nov 15 09:49:03 EST 2001

Manish,
I am not 100% certain, but when I checked last week the prices for the
standards, the ammendments where quoted with $ 0.00. I hope that is actually
true.
Klaus
+-----Original Message-----
+From: technotes-admin   lists.m4if.org
+[mailto:technotes-admin   lists.m4if.org]On Behalf Of Manish Singhal
+Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2023 5:27 AM
+To: Rob Koenen
+Cc: technotes   lists.m4if.org
+Subject: [M4IF Technotes] RE: [M4IF News] Press Release Licensing
+Additional Visual Profiles
+
+
+
+Rob
+
+Couple of questions:
+- Suppose one buys any particular version of the standard, let us say
+MPEG-4 Visual Version 2. Then it is upgraded to include FGS etc, then
+one has to again pay ~250 CHF to get that extension ?  Shouldn't there
+be an upgrade only pricing ?
+
+- Does the following announcement mean that the standard as well as the
+conformance bitstreams are available to be purchased ?
+
+Rgds
+Manish Singhal
+Manager, Video & Imaging
+Ittiam Systems
+Bangalore, India.
+
+> -----Original Message-----
+> From: Rob Koenen [mailto:rkoenen   intertrust.com]
+> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2023 5:44 AM
+> To: M4IF news (E-mail); M4IF Patent WGs (E-mail); Open DTV (E-mail);
+> MPEG General (E-mail)
+> Cc: Larry Horn (E-mail); Kenneth Rubenstein (E-mail)
+> Subject: [M4IF News] Press Release Licensing Additional
+> Visual Profiles
+>
+>
+> People,
+>
+> The following release marks the start of a process that will
+> enable joint licensing of essential patents in 3 more MPEG-4
+> Visual Profiles:
+>  * Simple Scalable
+>  * Advanced Simple
+>  * Fine Granular Scalability (FGS)
+>
+> This is in addition to the following Profiles, for which licensing is
+> slated to start in 2 months:
+>  * Simple
+>  * Core
+>
+> - Advanced Simple, a superset of Simple, has the latest coding
+>   effiency tools in MPEG-4, and supports rectangular video objects.
+> - Simple Scalable and FGS are scalable extensions of Simple
+>   (Simple is the base layer).
+>   FGS can also be used with Advanced Simple as a base layer.
+> - Core is a superset of Simple, adding B frames ('B-VOPs') and
+>   arbitrary-shape objects.
+>
+> This is an important milestone towards further deployment of MPEG-4
+> technology.
+>
+> Kind Regards,
+>
+>
+> Rob Koenen (President M4IF)
+> (I apologize for duplicate mails through multiiple reflectors)
+>
+>
+> --------------------------------------------------------------
+> --------------
+> -
+> For Immediate Release
+>
+> CONTACT:
+> Lawrence Horn, MPEG LA, LLC
+> 301.986.6660
+> 301.986.8575 Fax
+> lhorn   mpegla.com
+>
+>
+>
+> MPEG LA® Announces M4IF Plan for Joint Licensing of Essential
+> MPEG-4 Patents
+>
+> (Denver, Colorado, US-14 November 2001) - The MPEG-4 Industry
+> Forum (M4IF)
+> has recommended that MPEG LA, LLC make the following
+> worldwide announcement:
+>
+> In furtherance of its plan aimed at providing fair, reasonable,
+> nondiscriminatory worldwide access under one license to
+> patents that are
+> essential for implementing the international MPEG-4 Visual
+> Standard, the
+> MPEG-4 Industry Forum (M4IF) has recommended that MPEG LA,
+> LLC, in its role
+> as Evaluation Administrator, call for the submission of patents for
+> evaluation of their essentiality to additional MPEG-4 Visual Standard
+> profiles, specifically Simple Scalable, Advanced Simple, and Fine
+> Granularity Scalable.
+>
+> The Simple Scalable profile is generally described in ISO/IEC
+> 14496-2:1999/AMD.1:2000(E) Tables 9-1 and 9-2 (pages 322 and
+> 324).  The
+> Advanced Simple and Fine Granularity Scalable profiles are generally
+> described in ISO/IEC 14496-2:2001/AMD.2(E) Tables AMD2-13 and
+> AMD2-14. These
+> latter tables can be found in the ISO document N3904, also
+> styled "ISO/IEC
+> 14496-1:2001/FDAM2" (pages 32-33).
+> Following is a summary of the approved plan:
+>
+> 1. Objective
+>
+> To establish a portfolio of essential worldwide patents that
+> are necessary
+> for implementation of the MPEG-4 Visual (Simple Scalable,
+> Advanced Simple,
+> and Fine Grain Scalability) standard in order to provide all
+> MPEG-4 Visual
+> users with fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to this
+> technology
+> under one license.
+>
+> 2. Licensed patents
+>
+> Essential patents will consist of those that are necessary
+> for the Simple
+> Scalable (ISO/IEC 14496-2:1999/AMD.1:2000(E) Tables 9-1 and
+> 9-2 [pages 322
+> and 324]), Advanced Simple and Fine Granularity Scalable (ISO/IEC
+> 14496-2:2001/AMD.2(E) Tables AMD2-13 and AMD2-14, which can
+> be found in the
+> ISO document N3904, also styled "ISO/IEC 14496-1:2001/FDAM2"
+> [pages 32-33])
+> profiles of the MPEG-4 Visual Standard.
+>
+> 3. Organization
+>
+> The joint patent portfolio license may require at least three
+> functions:
+>
+> First, an Administrative Committee consisting of
+> representatives of the
+> essential patent owners will meet to consider licensing terms
+> and conditions
+> and monitor certain activities of a Licensing Administrator.
+>
+> Second, the Licensing Administrator, who is granted non-exclusive
+> sublicensing rights from patent owners under licensed
+> patents, actively
+> promotes the licensing program and distributes collected
+> royalties to the
+> patent owners.  The Licensing Administrator will be chosen by
+> the initial
+> group of patent holders comprising the Administrative Committee.
+>
+> Third, an Evaluator who is a neutral, third party patent expert will
+> evaluate patents for essentiality to the Simple Scalable (ISO/IEC
+> 14496-2:1999/AMD.1:2000(E) Tables 9-1 and 9-2 [pages 322 and
+> 324]), Advanced
+> Simple and Fine Granularity Scalable (ISO/IEC
+> 14496-2:2001/AMD.2(E) Tables
+> AMD2-13 and AMD2-14, which can be found in the ISO document
+> N3904, also
+> styled "ISO/IEC 14496-1:2001/FDAM2" [pages 32-33]) profiles
+> of the MPEG-4
+> Visual Standard.  Any party that believes it has essential patents is
+> invited to submit them for evaluation and inclusion.  For each patent
+> submitted, an evaluation fee of US $8,500.00 will be paid to
+> MPEG LA, LLC
+> (as below) to cover costs of the patent expert's evaluation.
+>
+> Members of the Administrative Committee will be determined by
+> the results of
+> the patent essentiality evaluation.
+>
+> 4. Licensing details
+>
+> To be determined by the Administrative Committee consisting of
+> representatives of the essential patent owners.
+> 5. Extension of the scope of the licensed patents
+>
+> On M4IF's recommendation and request, MPEG LA® earlier called for the
+> submission of patents for an evaluation of their essentiality to the
+> normative part of the Simple and Core profiles of the MPEG-4
+> Visual Standard
+> by an independent patent expert, and is currently
+> facilitating the efforts
+> of essential patent owners to develop a joint license providing fair,
+> reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to their essential intellectual
+> property.
+>
+> 6. Schedule (Initial Plan)
+>
+> Initial patent submissions:  by March 1, 2024 (although
+> patent submissions
+> may continue to be submitted after that date, owners of
+> essential patents in
+> the initial group of patents submitted by the March 1 date
+> will form the
+> initial group of Licensors and Administrative Committee that
+> will select a
+> Licensing Administrator and determine the terms of license).
+>
+> Evaluation:  March - June 2002
+>
+> Upon the above consensus, M4IF recommended that MPEG LA® make
+> this worldwide
+> announcement.
+>
+> Accordingly, MPEG LA® hereby announces that any company which
+> believes it
+> has patents that are essential to the Simple Scalable,
+> Advanced Simple and
+> Fine Granularity Scalable profiles of the MPEG-4 Visual Standard (as
+> described above) and wishes to join the patent pool upon successful
+> evaluation is invited to submit such patents to the Evaluator
+> (identified
+> below) by March 1, 2002, together with a statement confirming
+> its agreement
+> with the objectives and intention to abide by terms and
+> procedures governing
+> the patent submission process. Terms and procedures governing patent
+> submissions may be obtained from Lawrence A. Horn, Vice
+> President, Licensing
+> and Business Development, MPEG LA, LLC (lhorn   mpegla.com, phone
+> 1-301-986-6660, fax 1-301-986-8575).
+>
+> Evaluator:
+>
+> Dr. Kenneth Rubenstein
+> PROSKAUER ROSE LLP
+> 1585 Broadway
+> New York, NY10036-8299
+> Tel. 212-969-3000
+> Fax. 212-969-2900
+> krubenstein   proskauer.com <mailto:krubenstein   proskauer.com>
+>
+> #   #   #
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+> Overview of the MPEG-4 Standard
+>
+> MPEG-4 is an ISO/IEC multi-media representation standard
+> developed by its
+> Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).  MPEG also developed
+> MPEG-1, which
+> makes possible interactive video on CD-ROM and is present on
+> virtually every
+> personal computer, and MPEG-2, the core compression
+> technology underlying
+> the efficient transmission, storage and display of digitized
+> moving images
+> and sound tracks on which high definition television (HDTV),
+> Digital Video
+> Broadcasting (DVB), direct broadcast by satellite (DBS), digital cable
+> television systems, multichannel-multipoint distribution
+> services (MMDS),
+> personal computer video, digital versatile discs (DVD),
+> interactive media
+> and other forms of digital video delivery, storage, transport
+> and display
+> are based.
+>
+> MPEG-4 is the result of yet another international effort
+> involving hundreds
+> of researchers and engineers from all over the world.  Building on the
+> successes of MPEG's earlier standards, MPEG-4 enables
+> integration of the
+> production, distribution and content access features of
+> digital television,
+> interactive graphics applications and interactive multimedia
+> across internet
+> protocol, wireless, low bitrate, broadcast, satellite, cable
+> and mobile
+> environments.  With MPEG-4, all content elements can be maintained as
+> discrete objects enabling richer interactivity and use across
+> many different
+> devices   More information about MPEG-4 can be found at
+> MPEG's home page
+> <http://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com> and at the home page of the MPEG-4
+> Industry Forum <http://www.m4if.org/>.
+>
+> MPEG-4 Industry Forum (M4IF)
+>
+> While M4IF recommended that MPEG LA® take the steps as
+> described in this
+> release, all steps described herein are carried out outside and
+> independently of M4IF.  M4IF encourages all and any steps
+> that will lead to
+> easy access to reasonable and non-discriminatory licenses for patents
+> essential to the MPEG-4 Standard.
+>
+> The M4IF was organized on May 29, 2024 as a not-for-profit
+> corporation "To
+> further the adoption and widespread use of the MPEG-4 Standard, by
+> establishing MPEG-4 as an accepted standard among application
+> developers,
+> service providers, content creators and end users." Based in
+> Switzerland,
+> M4IF is open to all parties that support this goal and pay the yearly
+> membership fee of (US) $3,000.  M4IF carries on activities outside of
+> ISO/IEC's scope, such as:
+>
+> *	Promoting the MPEG-4 Standard, and serving as a single point of
+> information on MPEG-4 technology, products and services;
+> *	Initiating discussions leading to the potential establishment of
+> patent portfolios outside of M4IF in order to grant licenses to all
+> applicants throughout the world under reasonable terms and
+> conditions that
+> are demonstrably free of any unfair competition;
+> *	Organization of MPEG-4 exhibitions and tutorials;
+> *	Carrying out interoperability tests.
+>
+> Since its official establishment, over 100 companies have
+> joined the Forum.
+>
+>
+> MPEG LA, LLC
+>
+> MPEG LA* successfully pioneered one-stop technology standards
+> licensing,
+> starting with a portfolio of essential patents for the
+> international digital
+> video compression standard known as MPEG-2, which it began
+> licensing in
+> 1997.  One-stop technology standards licensing enables widespread
+> technological implementation, interoperability and use of fundamental
+> broad-based technologies covered by many patents owned by
+> many different
+> patent holders.  MPEG LA* provides users with fair, reasonable,
+> nondiscriminatory access to these essential patents on a
+> worldwide basis
+> under a single license.  The MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License now has
+> approximately 350 licensees and includes almost 400 MPEG-2
+> essential patents
+> owned by 19 patent holders.  As the legal and business
+> template for one-stop
+> technology standards licensing, MPEG LA* also provides an
+> innovative way to
+> achieve fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to patent
+> rights for
+> other technology standards - the high-speed transfer digital
+> interconnect
+> standard known as IEEE 1394 and the terrestrial digital
+> television standard
+> used in Europe and Asia known as DVB-T.  In addition, MPEG
+> LA® has been
+> asked to facilitate the development of joint licenses for
+> MPEG-4 and other
+> emerging technologies.  The company is based in Denver, CO
+> and has offices
+> in Chevy Chase, MD (Washington DC metropolitan area), the greater San
+> Francisco area and London, England.  For more information,
+> please refer to
+> <http://www.mpegla.com/>, <http://www.1394la.com/> and
+> <http://www.dvbla.com>.
+>
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