[M4IF News] MPEG LA Extends Call for Initial Submission of Essential H.264/MP EG-4 AVC Patents

[Rob Koenen]

I was just alerted about the following press release, of importance to the
upcoming ITU-T H.264 / MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding standard.
Regards - Rob
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.102902/223020678
<http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.102902/223020678>
<http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/021029/290678_1.html> 
BW0678  OCT 29,2023       11:55 PACIFIC      14:55 EASTERN
( BW)(CO-MPEG-LA) MPEG LA Extends Call for Initial Submission of Essential
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Patents; Initial Submissions Requested By January 31, 2024
  Business Editors, Technology Writers
    DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 2002--MPEG LA, LLC today announced
that it has extended until January 31, 2003, the initial period during which
patent holders who believe they own patents that are essential to the
proposed JVT/AVC Standard may submit them for an evaluation of essentiality
by independent patent experts for the purpose of forming a joint AVC Patent
Portfolio License. MPEG LA first announced an initial call for patent
submissions in a news release dated 11 September 2023 (see
http://www.mpegla.com/news/n_02-09-11_jvt.html
<http://www.mpegla.com/news/n_02-09-11_jvt.html> ).
    The initial patent submission period has been extended in order to
provide more opportunity for parties to prepare their patent submissions and
in expectation that the AVC Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) will
be achieved in December 2002. Although the 11 September 2023 news release
referred to the proposed JVT/AVC Standard as embodied in the Final Committee
Draft, patents will be examined for their essentiality to the FDIS, and more
information will be provided on that at the appropriate time.
    For each patent submitted, an evaluation fee of US $8,500.00 will be
paid to MPEG LA, LLC. Submitting parties must confirm their agreement with
the terms and procedures governing the patent submission process which may
be obtained from Jane Tannenbaum, Director, Contract Administration
(jtannenbaum   mpegla.com <mailto:jtannenbaum   mpegla.com> ). Although patent
submissions may continue to be submitted after January 31, 2003, owners of
essential patents in the initial group of patents submitted by the January
31 date will be convened to form the initial group of Licensors that will
select a Licensing Administrator and determine the terms of license.
    MPEG LA, LLC
    MPEG LA successfully pioneered one-stop technology standards licensing
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 patent holders. MPEG LA
provides users with fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to these
essential patents on a worldwide basis under a single license. In addition
to MPEG-2, MPEG LA licenses portfolios of essential patents for the IEEE
1394 Standard and DVB-T Standard and will license portfolios of essential
patents for the MPEG-4 Visual and Systems standards. For more information,
please refer to http://www.mpegla.com <http://www.mpegla.com/> ,
http://www.1394la.com <http://www.1394la.com/>  and http://www.dvbla.com
<http://www.dvbla.com/> . MPEG LA is based in Denver, Colorado, USA.
    --30--djm/dx*
    CONTACT:  MPEG LA, LLC
              Lawrence Horn, 301/986-6660
              Fax, 301/986-8575
              lhorn   mpegla.com <mailto:lhorn   mpegla.com> 
    KEYWORD:  TRACK COLORADO INTERNATIONAL ASIA PACIFIC EUROPE 
    INDUSTRY KEYWORD:  CABLE ENTERTAINMENT HARDWARE SOFTWARE 
TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELEVISION/RADIO 
    SOURCE:  MPEG LA, LLC
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