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

[Manish Singhal]

Klaus
here is the response from ISO
>Dear Mr. Singhal,
>
>We thank you for your e-mail and your interest in ISO products.
>
>However, we regret to inform that we do not offer a special pricing for
>extensions, also, please advise if you still want to receive an offer
for
>the above mentioned draft amendment ?
>
>We look forward to hearing from you.
>
>Yours sincerely,
>ISO/Marketing
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Manish Singhal" <manish.singhal   ittiam.com>
>To: <sales   iso.ch>
>Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2023 5:31 AM
>Subject: 14496-2:2001 FDAM2
>
>
>
>Hello there
>
>Please inform us about the pricing of the above document. Also, we did
>purchase the previous amendment from ISO (ISO/IEC 14496-2:1999/Amd
>1:2000 ). Is there a special pricing for extensions.
>Rgds
>Manish Singhal.
>
Rgds
Manish
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Klaus Diepold [mailto:Klaus.Diepold   dynapel.de]
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2023 2:19 PM
> To: Manish Singhal; Rob Koenen
> Cc: technotes   lists.m4if.org
> Subject: RE: [M4IF Technotes] RE: [M4IF News] Press Release Licensing
> Additional Visual Profiles
> 
> 
> 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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